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SciShow Tangents

Toilets with Deboki Chakravarti

SciShow Tangents

Complexly

Schultz, Stefan, Tangents, Hank, 770430, Chin, Riley, Scishow, Complexly, Sam, Sam Schultz, Stefan Chin, Hank Green, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/jmge1h9a, Comedy, Ceri Riley, Science, Education, Ceri, Green

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This episode was brought to you by Gates Notes, the blog of Bill Gates. Go to https://www.gatesnotes.com to learn more about the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year! Just because you poop and pee in them doesn’t mean that toilets don’t deserve your utmost respect! From the International Space Station to the comfort of your own home, these waste-disposing scientific wonders help make our lives cleaner and safer. So next time you see a toilet, say “thank you!”

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This episode of SciShow Tangents is brought to you in partnership with Gatesnotes.

0:04.3

You can go to Gatesnotes.com to read about the latest innovations in toilets and sanitation

0:09.3

and to learn more about the reinvent the toilet challenge, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary

0:14.3

this year.

0:29.8

And welcome to SciShow Tangents, the lightly competitive science knowledge showcase.

0:34.0

I'm your host, Hank Green, and joining me this week and sitting in for science expert,

0:38.0

Sarah Riley is science expert and tangents editorial assistant and writer and co-host of

0:43.3

Journey to the Microcosmos. It's Devoki Chopra Vardi. Hello. Hello. How's the Olympics going

0:48.8

for you? Do you care at all? I care when I want background noise. It's been great to be able to

0:53.0

like turn it on just like when I need something. But I've been having a hard time with sports this

0:58.0

year where I've been getting into it and then hating myself for it because I get so stressed.

1:02.4

It's just you get too much. Yeah. An interesting thing about this Olympics that I have enjoyed

1:09.5

is following all of the athletes on TikTok where I realize that that's just like party time

1:15.9

village. Yeah, and they're like all 18 and going insane. Yeah. I've definitely like read all

1:22.7

those like secrets of the Olympic Village articles in the past when they've come out and now

1:26.9

seeing it live on TikTok. I'm like, this is great. Seeing how they test out the cardboard

1:33.2

beds. I'm like, yeah, that's perfect. That sounds about right. Yeah, the, it used to be NBC would give

1:38.8

you like these mini documentaries on the athletes and see it see like the trials and struggles. And

1:44.0

now instead of that, it's just like thirst traps and using audios and funny Olympics ways.

1:50.5

Anyway, we're also joined by a resident, every man, Sam Schultz, who has already spoken up a little

1:55.3

bit. And also, I'm sure has Olympic opinions. Oh, I love the, I love the Olympics. I feel bad

2:00.4

that I love the Olympics so much, but I do. And I was supposed to go to these Olympics. You were

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