208 - Tattoos

On today’s episode: How do sharks swim so fast? Denticles! How do tattoos work? And how safe are they? Hybrid swarms are causing extinctions… and we’re one of them! Why do we play? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Studying the skin of the great white shark could help reduce drag in aircraft
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846827/
• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.865239/full
• https://karger.com/drm/article-abstract/221/1/43/113221/Incidence-of-Health-Problems-Associated-with?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00266-017-1002-0
• https://thevarsity.ca/2021/10/31/science-of-tattooing/
• https://www.popsci.com/how-tattoos-work/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/tattoo-science-immune-system-effects/673462/
• https://www.britannica.com/science/vacuole
• https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3891/whats-in-your-ink
• https://www.acs.org/pressroom/newsreleases/2022/august/exposing-whats-in-tattoo-ink.html
• https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2006/06/13/invisible-ink-black-light-tattoos-are-lighting-up-local-clubs-but-are-they-safe/30130038007/
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/tattoo-ink-western-professor-study-1.6099726
• https://whatsinmyink.com/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846827/

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