Games with Jo Firestone | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Do you want to play a game? Well, we sure do! We're joined by Sam's dream guest Jo Firestone, a comedian, podcaster, and game author and enthusiast to celebrate the joy (and evil) of playing games, especially the games on Tangents! 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   / 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/s... 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 [Truth or Fail: Express] Researchers turned quitting smoking into competitive sport https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37566... Scientists watch a hydrogel play pong https://www.theguardian.com/technolog... https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea... Bonus: Dead salmon FMRI study https://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/be... Oregon Trail decision model https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea... [The Gauntlet] Game Boy Pocket Sonar accessory https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/g... https://www.theguardian.com/technolog... https://gameboy.fandom.com/wiki/Game_... Foldit players solve puzzles with what molecules https://fold.it/about_foldit https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/che... https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... AI neural network from floppy disk to electronic game http://www.20q.net/?history https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive... https://openreview.net/pdf?id=FlR4Wyu... Jenga name in Swahili https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blo... https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/jenga/ Candy Land disease epidemic https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c... https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog... Jeopardy https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/0... https://www.npr.org/2009/12/20/121664... https://j-archive.com/showplayer.php?... https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind... 100% win rate from high-speed robot https://ishikawa-vision.org/fusion/Ja... [Ask the Science Couch] Game replayability reasons, impacts, and areas of future research https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED... https://www.firstpersonscholar.com/th... https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/31358... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... Patreon bonus: Gamification, another facet of motivation psychology https://academictechnologies.it.miami... https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://online.nursing.georgetown.edu... https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/undergra... [Butt One More Thing] Original inventor of Scrabble was named Alfred Mosher Butts https://time.com/archive/6909539/scra... https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/scr... #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents