Line #34 WebVideo/SciShow


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3	->''"Here at ''[=SciShow=]'', we hate not knowing things."''
4	-->-- '''Hank Green'''
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6	''[=SciShow=]'' is one of the WebVideo {{Edutainment Show}}s hosted and created by Music/HankGreen, known for being the younger half of the WebVideo/{{Vlogbrothers}}.
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8	The show is divided up into different sections. "Infusion" talks about such popular topics as solar energy and climate change in great detail. "Dose" is a section of quick videos of obscure topics, such as Tardigrades and Foldit gamers. "News" is a weekly section devoted to quick news stories that have happened recently. "Breaking" is devoted to one breaking news story. It's spawned three spinoff channels: [=SciShow=] Space, [=SciShow=] Kids, and [=SciShow=] Psych.
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10	* The [=SciShow=] original channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow here]].
11	* The [=SciShow=] Space channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowspace here]]. Rotating hosts Hank Green, Reid Reimers, and Caitlin Hoffmeister focus on astronomy and other space-related information and news updates. The channel stopped uploading new content on January 31, 2023[[note]]with all future space videos to be published on the main [=SciShow=] channel[[/note]].
12	* The [=SciShow=] Kids channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowkids here]]. It launched as part of Website/YouTube Kids with host Jessi Knudsen-Castañeda (of ''Animal Wonders'' fame) and features various kid-friendly topics with a particular focus on life science.
13	* The [=SciShow=] Psych channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/scishowpsych here]]. Rotating hosts Hank Green and Brit Garner explain aspects of psychology throughout history and the present. The channel was put on indefinite hiatus on December 23, 2021[[note]]with all future psychology videos to be published on the main [=SciShow=] channel[[/note]].
14	* There is also a spin-off podcast, [=SciShow=] Tangents, described as a "lightly competitive knowledge showcase" which features several of the makers of [=SciShow=] sharing interesting science facts on a different topic each week. It includes a poem to introduce the topic, a Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe style section choosing which of three "facts" is true, a "fact-off" where two players try to present a fact to the others which will "blow their minds", and a post-credits "But fact". Discussion often wanders off-topic, hence the show's title.
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16	!This show provides examples of:
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18	* AprilFoolsDay: 2013 gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator "The Retro-Proto-Turbo-Encabulator"]], in which Hanks speaks almost entirely in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and TechnoBabble. Lots and lots of technobabble.
19	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Some pseudo-scientists, authors, and TV people want to convince everyone that on Dec. 21, 2012, "the earth is going to split in two, or the poles are going to shift, or house cats are going to rise up against us and make ''us'' poop in boxes of sand!"
20	* BlatantLies: Nano scientists are tiny, tiny scientists.
21	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wopM3A3tyTw this video,]] Hank's tips to avoid viruses are "But you can avoid most of them as long as you don't open sketchy emails, download weird files, or try to create a nuclear enrichment program."
22	* BreakoutCharacter: Jessi Knudsen-Castañeda of Animal Wonders, who got her own [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Nj4gkoi_n5eCcrKCVOXKA full-fledged YouTube show]] produced by Hank.
23	* CatchPhrase: "We hope you learned something."
24	* EvilLaugh: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3Hu8loXTE the episode on lying]], Hank ended with an assurance that he was a terrible liar... or was he? Mwuhahahahaha!
25	* AGoodNameForARockBand: Vinyl Alcohol, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppK1Ilii7NU talking about]] Sagittarius B2, a molecular cloud containing it.
26	* HeliumSpeech: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzecE6XDFgg the episode on helium]].
27	* MadLibThrillerTitle: In a [=SciShow=] Talk Show about [[https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/minerva/ Project MINERVA]], Hank lampshades that "The Minerva Project" would have probably sounded too much like the title of a new ''ComicBook/XMen'' movie.
28	* PornNames: Apparently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nug6iuKowRk&t=1m30s Hank's stripper name]] is "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharsis_Bulge Tharsis Bulge]]".
29	* ARareSentence:
30	-->'''Hank Green:''' [Chlorine trifluoride is] much more dangerous to handle than even fluorine gas, which as anyone with a degree in chemistry can tell you… is not a sentence you get to say very often.
31	* ShoutOut:
32	** In the Tardigrades episode, when Hank says that the UsefulNotes/{{ESA}}'s "Tardigrades In Space" program was shortened to "Tardis", an animation of the [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]] is shown.
33	** The Dose episode "Tatooine?" begins with a reference to ''Franchise/StarWars''.
34	* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: ''[=SciShow=]'' focuses on science news and ideas which Hank Green finds cool. Part of what makes it work is Hank's obvious enthusiasm.
35	* YouKeepUsingThatWord: They now have a segment devoted to this subject in terms of scientific terms. It is called "I Don't Think That Means What You Think It Means", based on a line from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. One of the terms is UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat.

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