Sweat

Woo boy! It's hot out there, why don't ya grab a nice glass of ice cold lemonade and listen in on everything you did and didn't want to learn about sweat. Are humans the sweatiest of them all? Do fish sweat? What lives in the ecosystem between two people holding hands for the first time? What is it all even for!??

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Sources:

[Truth or Fail]
Sweat sucking spiders supplementing salts
Polar bears follow sweaty paw paths in search for love
A new bacteria-infecting cure for extra stinky sweaty feet
[Trivia Question]
NASA’s ECOSTRESS measures evapotranspiration aka plant sweating
jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ecosystem-spaceborne-the…
jpl.nasa.gov/news/watching-plants-water-use-is…
[Fact Off]
Charles Blagden experiments with “super-sauna” that cooked steak but made humans sweat
publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-…
jstor.org/stable/106218?seq=1
royalsociety.org/about-us/who-we-are/history
Antiperspirant made with propylene glycol that evaporates your sweat before it leaves the ducts

[Ask the Science Couch]
Non-water stuff in eccrine sweat (salt, urea, hormones, etc.)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773238/#:~:t…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12817713
penn.museum/sites/bulletin/1733
ontarioarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/oa04…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941775
Patreon bonus: Effects of stress/emotion on sweat composition and smell
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-249…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518869
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246182
[Butt One More Thing]
Treating hyperhidrosis in the perianal region with botox
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8436621
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11172190

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