SciShow: 8 Truths and Myths About the Full Moon

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Content of the Lesson: With so many claims about the moon’s influence over everything from menstrual cycles to rainfall, SciShow is here to set the record straight with these 8 truths and myths about our moon. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1985-19152-001  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213007549 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389945714003402?via%3Dihub https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/magsense/ms.html https://science.sciencemag.org/content/235/4786/331.long  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JZ071i003p00951 https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/magnetotail_080416.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06687.pdf https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1995.76.1.32 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15166467 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675796901242 https://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.231.2.251 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA03401 https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_corals/coral01_intro.html http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/the-reef/corals/coral-reproduction http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161121-the-great-barrier-reef-is-twice-as-old-as-the-human-species?ocid=fbind https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.2002.47.1.0309 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwChk4S99i4&t=304s https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL067342 https://www.thoughtco.com/low-and-high-pressure-1434434 https://pmm.nasa.gov/trmm https://www.etymonline.com/word/menses https://www.etymonline.com/word/moon https://helloclue.com/articles/cycle-a-z/myth-moon-phases-menstruation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208001632 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347211005069 https://bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-arachnology/volume-38/issue-3/B09-111.1/Ultraviolet-light-detection-a-function-of-scorpion-fluorescence/10.1636/B09-111.1.short https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505011004215 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953696004145 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01614.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15256200 https://www.nature.com/articles/424033a https://jeb.biologists.org/content/204/14/2589.short Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnetosphere_rendition.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/magnetotail_080416.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coral_Outcrop_Flynn_Reef.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tidalwaves1.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arizona.bark.scorpion.UV.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dung_beetle_working-001.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain_coral_spawning.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tide_overview.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electromagnetic_wave.png


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