Check out http://rocketmoney.com/scishow to start managing your personal finances today. Thank you to Rocket Money for sponsoring today’s video! #rocketmoney #personalfinance
There’s a chill in the air and a shudder in our bones…it’s Spooky Month! Come along with us on a treacherous journey full of mischief, mayhem, and many marvelously mysterious guests! Steady yourself, for who knows what frights lurk around the corner…
Our next shocking mystery friend to join us is none other than Dylan Marron! Tread the floorboards of Tangents Manor with us in pursuit of the truth behind fortune-telling and future-predicting as we examine Psychics!
Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!
And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch!
A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you’re at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen
[This, That, or the Other: Crystal Ball]
Weather forecast predictions
https://www.noaa.gov/stories/6-tools-our-meteorologists-use-to-forecast-weather
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-trust-farmers-almanacs-weather-predictions/
Flu shot planning
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm
Short-term volcanic eruption prediction
https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eruptionforecast
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/24650/chapter/6
[The Scientific Definition]
Spirit trumpet
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-SPR-TRUMPET/1
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spirit-trumpets-dead-speak
The Barnum effect
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810104425651
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00271.x
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-21271-001
Table-turning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2_6
https://www.ria.ie/blog/table-turning-a-victorian-fad/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Neuroscience or psychology explanations for deja vu
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-005-0677-3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251874/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810012000049
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420423/
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/the-psychology-of-deja-vu.html
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/deja-vu
Patreon bonus: Brain-computer interfaces and using technology to detect thoughts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497935/
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/21/8639905/brain-control-robot-arm-paralyzed-quadriplegic
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa5417
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9
[Butt One More Thing]
Scatomancy pseudoscience vs. fecal tests run by gastroenterologists
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scatomancer_n_4309974
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000704.htm
https://www.columbiadoctors.org/news/how-know-your-colon-healthy
#scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents
Watch Now
