Big vs Small with Tiny Matters

Sam's out this week, but worry not: he found another Sam to replace him! Sam Jones, host of the podcast Tiny Matters that is! Sam and her co-host, our own Deboki Chakravarti, join Ceri and Hank in our first ever team-based episode of Tangents! Two teams enter, one team leaves!
What more Tiny Matters? Check out the podcast here: acs.org/pressroom/tiny-matters.html!
And check out Deboki at twitter.com/okidoki_boki, and Sam at twitter.com/samjscience?s=20
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Project Gasbuggy
nytimes.com/1970/02/22/archives/project-gasbug…
content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,330…
books.google.com/books?id=g9QDAAAAMBAJ&dq=…
Operation Big Itch
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13623699908409…
documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biologic…
Operation North Pole (Project Cirrus)
ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-r…
alachuacounty.us/Depts/epd/EPAC/General%20Elec…
Brilliant Pebbles
llnl.gov/archives/1980s/brilliant-pebbles
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/clementine/in-de…
highfrontier.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Th…
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smallest organisms: ultramicrobacteria and Candidate Phyla Radiation
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297842
link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S00262617120…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC243725
jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsme2/16/2/16_2_67/_a…
nature.com/articles/ncomms7372
newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/27/ultra-small-bact…
[Butt One More Thing]
Big-bottomed ants (Atta laevigata / hormiga culona)
atlasobscura.com/foods/big-bottomed-ants-hormi…
books.google.com/books?id=NebIEAAAQBAJ&pg=…
fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-fo…

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