Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos

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[@andrewh1096]

I dont understand how you get such clear video with so much color. whould love to see your setup.

[@erikbuchanan4648]

Couple of questions: 1. Has there been any signs of evolution in any of the microscopic species since we've been able to observe them? 2. Are simplier creatures as likely to evolve as more complicated creatures? 3. Are there any way to view microscopic life in 3 dimensions or any good c.g.i. to give us a better idea of what they're like if we existed on their scales? Enjoy the videos. Its so easy to get caught up in our human lives. Video's like this help to remind there's a much bigger picture outside of our lives!

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[@rotifer]

*When I was but a budding bud at Microbe High. My fellow ciliates and I would always play* _The Flinching Game._ It consisted of us anchoring ourselves eyespots deep into swirling particulates. First to succumb to the harsh vortices, with a reflex of the spontaneous body contraction, owed the rest of us mitochondria bites by the end of the school cycle! A classic pastime I must say!

[@ikeaaron]

I love this reply with every fiber of my being

[@0mnicide]

Cells these days wouldn’t understand.

[@thepistilpacker61]

I'd read it if you wrote an entire book on your day to day life as a microbe.

[@TheJonathanExp]

This is more inspirational than my childhood as a spud 🥔😊

[@Lichen8404]

wish the other 8,403 lichens knew such fun 😔 it was so boring.

[@smellyfishstiks]

"when you have video of Spriostomum getting pooped on you have to use it" Indeed. Also never thought about it but ya calcium is weird

[@T34RG45]

I never knew i needed to see that until now. Life is awesome

[@UATU.]

I love Hank's slower, lower tone on this channel.

[@nzuckman]

$5 says he does a bump of coke before shoots for SciShow 😆

[@CheIgevara]

@@nzuckman have you seen his tiktoks?

[@CheIgevara]

silky smooth soothing

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Totally didn't even recognize! Is he getting some good Therapy? I 💚💙💜 Hank.

[@matthewstewart5566]

"Microcosmos of the stovetop" could be a really interesting video actually 🤔

[@Beryllahawk]

Yeah!!!! Now I'm intrigued!!! A little frightened too, because an environment like that probably doesn't have cute tardigrades >.>

[@BinkyBorky]

I clean my stove with vinegar and be baking powder every morning, so probably not if you sampled mine. I wouldn't care about any bacteria that survived that.

[@excitableboy7031]

A very gross video

[@chillsahoy2640]

I am slightly frightened of what might survive on the stovetop. On the one hand, food residue constantly rains on it. On the other hand, it regularly gets blasted by fire, and kitchen-grade chemical cleaners.

[@limiv5272]

I'm off to spray 70% ethanol solution on my stove

[@Beryllahawk]

These videos are the best ten minutes of my week sometimes. Also, I laughed aloud at the bit about "if you have footage of a Spirostomum getting pooped on, you have to use it"

[@aureaphilos]

It took me a minute to recognize how the rapid contractions could serve as a 'first aide kit'; but then I realized that if a cell rapidly contracts, it reduces it's surface area, and closes the gap in the membrane at the site where calcium ions are entering. Most interesting!

[@jubb1984]

I can't get over the fact how beautiful these shots are! Thanks!

[@glb1993]

The microscopic world is so unbelievably fascinating it looks so alien yet I know it is actually terrestrial, its absolutely amazing! Life is a strange yet marvelous thing that we are part of.

[@NessMother2]

I remember seeing this channel a while ago, when there were less than 10 videos and under 50K subs. The content was amazing, so amazing that I told myself that I was going to leave this channel be until there are more videos I can watch later on. I actually almost forgot about this until KZbin recommended me a video from it over a year later. Still amazes me

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Them lil slinky cups are cute :P

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Thank you for making one of the most informative, and one of the best-produced, channels on KZbin.

[@Marsh_Manta]

Read this as "Finchwing Saves Lives" and I was like, "Good for her, glad she's achieving so much in and outside of the animation industry!"

[@Ealsante]

Spirostomum: I know, I'll get round to the BACK of the flatworm! That'll-

[@Desimcd]

I flinch all the time. Now I feel like it's a superpower 🤣💚 love your show!

[@vitamink1028]

Wow, the vorticella contraction speed is insanely fast!

[@truthtopower1662]

You need to do a video on the 'jumping" ciliates like Halteria, Mesodinium and Uronychia.

[@JamsGerms]

That’s a great idea!

[@kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126]

These things are just fascinating! It’s a whole world existing right along side us which we never see and most never even think about! Cheers

[@Gilvala]

the clarity and image quality is stunning - thanks for another great video 👍

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This channel is just endlessly inspiring

[@artmakersworlds]

I SO look forward to these videos. Always fascinating. The photography is amazing. Thanks to you all. Keep um coming.

[@NewMessage]

I'm just here for the cili jokes.

[@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692]

I think there's no competition, hank is the best narrator in the entire micro-cosmos.

[@EmilyJelassi]

Love this channel! Always so interesting 😊💕

[@Greeningermany]

Awesome video yet again!!! One of my favourite channels.

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I love these videos so much💚🔬

[@LouisGedo]

Always an amazing journey on this channel

[@Spoonwranglerz]

One of the best episodes I have seen. Extremely intriguing

[@NikoJay]

That Micro knod to AMC in the sponsor intro was amazing. Love this channel

[@loganu8954]

Nooo dont poke them with a glass needle they're just vibing!

[@CheIgevara]

Best lullabies. Thanks.

[@ziptoid]

vorticella like reflexes

[@p.rabbitt4914]

Beyond amazing.. I bet these structures are like the cosmic beings out in space. I wonder when we'll discover them?

[@pythonhighadder7982]

Hey bought your book can't wait to see it.

[@mraBJJ33]

"The microcosmos don't have stoves" but "the sun is a deadly laser"

[@platyperri]

After putting a coverslip "not anymoore there's a blaanket" :)

[@cidoka5638]

Awesome work! I too was thinking how calcium ions have been used by life to the point of even the action of understanding language at all depends on it... Best wishes for the book!

[@nickPOPmusic]

Thank you for these videos!

[@KenLikeEh123]

Is time the same at the microscopic level? The idea of speed at such a small size is hard to comprehend

[@elenaacim]

Any info on that Siberian 24,000 year old bdelloid rotifer or even current ones? Receiving James's book tomorrow. Sooo excited! Also looking to get the microcosmos microscope filters. I hope you make them available. Thanks for your efforts.

[@frostbunnie814]

When I first read the title, I thought it would be about microbiologists accidentally bumping or otherwise moving the slide and inadvertently saving microbe lives.

[@kennyearthling7965]

Wow! An interesting video with a striong and deeply philosophical ending. Ace! :)

[@nonetrix3066]

Yo they made the mario chain chomp in irl

[@DarwinianUniversal]

Calcium ions, action potentials. The healing mechanism being the origin of all action potential. That's profound!!! Assuming its correct

[@alexcollins71090]

I was wondering if it was Calcium!!! So glad you went into depth about it. Sending this to my parents because I'm always bugging them about Calcium signaling evolution across the tree of life lol

[@jessegabelein5634]

Please tell me what the song is that starts at 4:00. It's impossible to find.

[@FlowMama4207]

I never thought i would see a pooping Microbe 😂😂 love your Channel ❤😂

[@jayamiheiyang1602]

I wonder if there's an engineering application for Vorticella's stalk contraction. Maybe a way to keep sensory equipment designed for volatile material from being destroyed?

[@thamghoul5719]

Awesome video. You guys inspired me to buy a microscope.

[@tsaszymborska7389]

Fantastisc pictures! Really amazing.

[@unvergebeneid]

5:13 to be fair, the human body can also withstand higher accelerations if they happen for a very short amount of time. It's only when the acceleration is sustained that just a couple of g's will kill us.

[@HayTatsuko]

"Spasmoneme" is my new favorite weird word for the month.

[@1st_ProCactus]

I like this video a lot more than the last several. It felt just like when you started. Maybe its the focus on the topic.

[@BroAnarchy]

2:48...... I'm not going to lie, that is some amazing crap right there

[@davidcraig9779]

Outstanding.

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

It's Coily! Coily the Spring Spirostomum!

[@DominikJaniec]

very interesting! I was always wondered, how they retract that fast. now I know, thanks :)

[@ANTIMONcom]

So what is the microcosmos like in a stoven?!!

[@valerieouellet7725]

Thanks a lot

[@cavios8889]

Love the biological details! This information is perfect for simulations.

[@Pajarillo_100]

0:13 this music is my favorite

[@rosesacks7430]

I congratulate you for being respectful of the organisms you present to us. I saw a headline that presented something about results of shooting those cute water bears and whether they survived. My question is why do that? That's just cruel.

[@miko5167]

It was done to test the panspermia hypothesis. Science needs test subjects and animal testing is nothing new.

[@rosesacks7430]

@@miko5167 I still think it's cruel and unnecessary.

[@miko5167]

@@rosesacks7430 I think it delivered important data about the possibility of life being brought to some planet (like our own) with a meteorite. Unfortunately, you can't figure it out without killing something.

[@rosesacks7430]

@@miko5167 I hear what your saying, but I still think it's not a necessary test. why speculate If these organisms arrived on earth via a meteorite or evolution? They're here. studying the habitat and behavior is beneficial research. (my opinion and everyone has one😂)

[@miko5167]

@@rosesacks7430 I see your point but the origin of life on earth is relevant for finding out where life could exist outside it. If life can be transported by meteorites to planets, it makes finding extraterrestial life more likely. Imagine how interesting it would be if all life on earth would be related to life on some other planet. Also, perhaps extraterrestial invasive species could be possible. More conventional research about ecosystems is important but I think there’s room for many kinds of research.

[@kennyholmes5196]

So, a TL;DR is that contractions amongst Vorticella and Spirostomum are akin to neurons firing.

[@chillsahoy2640]

James's new book is an absolutely remarkable thing. Oh, I see the source of confusion: I was merely describing the book, but my attempt to describe it accidentally referenced a different book. Trying to clarify ambiguous syntax is a beautifully foolish endeavour. See? It happened again!

[@deeppurple883]

The flat warm looks like a moray eel feeding

[@deathfangthegothicgamer5601]

2:46 LOLZ a Spirostomum gotten pooped on XD

[@hunterc626]

Hank: imagine shrinking your hand into your arm Me: trying to make my hand shrink into my arm

[@AdamMelton]

aaaand now I want slow motion micro cosmos footage. please

[@Odsteria]

... I'm not registering that all these things are real and I feel like I should be freaked out, but my brain is like 'Nah, man. That's just CGI"

[@AMadScientist]

Been trying to get some info on this DIC process. Of course these are GREAT videos but my question is this; if one has a DIC ready scope, is there much pre or post work done to get these kind of videos/images or do you get your specimen and go at it?

[@JamsGerms]

Ahh DIC is not a process and postprocessing not required to get these images. We did an episode on it already, please check "We Upgraded Our Microscope!" :) -James

[@user-gf8zv4ov2x]

5:16 is this where people got the ideas for those finger traps youd see at kids toy stores?

[@infra_Gray]

An elite fighter pilot never experiences more than 9gs. But the bad ones probably experience a lot more than that

[@lyric8006]

Fascinating video!!

[@ВладимирДутин-у3ц]

top content here

[@raychang8444]

@Journey to the Microcosmos, can you share the citation of the documentation on "predator vomiting up Spirostomum"? I am actually a biophysicist working on Spirostomum at Stanford. I know that they have toxins but I have not saw such a vivid description. Many thanks!

[@unvergebeneid]

4:17 holy crap, this thing is so long it doesn't even fit into the frame and yet it contracts within a single frame of the video! You should've done a collab with the Slo-Mo Guys here!

[@wayoutdan8334]

Ten people reached for the like button and flinched.

[@Fummy007]

Legit didn't know show was hosted by Hank Green!

[@nadapenny8592]

Long range snack stoppers.

[@Ofkorz]

I thought the video was lagging because I just can't it believe it at first

[@holidayhawk1991]

This may be a stupid question, but why does everything always swim two dimensionally in these videos? Is it just because the slide isn't big enough for the microbes to swim up and down, or in the wild do they tend to find a "layer" of water to live in and then just swim around that two dimensional level, or are they moving up and down as well in the video it just doesn't seem like it?

[@ZdrytchX]

The question is, how fast can you tap before they stop responding?

[@RhysSm1th]

it would be great if the team could get some of these super fast microcosmos movements on ultra high-speed camera!, might be boring, but also might be super interesting!

[@lightupthedark4831]

when will we hand feed them?

[@noe-girlshere1489]

"Stoves have a microcosmos-" WHAT?!

[@rorypenstock1763]

Because of the square-cube law, it isn't fair to compare the acceleration these organisms can survive with what larger organisms experience.

[@jonjudice1155]

1 mile per second or around mach 5

[@ketoonkratom]

Love One Another

[@haridevv.s8502]

Imagine some beings watching us like thiss ...😲😲

[@lordfelidae4505]

That’s what god does. Watches with a detached, yet invested fascination at the alien, bizarre beings on this random rock they found.

[@jackscully7986]

Okay we're all waiting on the stove episode now

[@loganturner7131]

I was under the impression that the Vorticella contraction was a method of its feeding, am I wrong in assuming that?

[@johnmaclean2040]

Love!

[@chuckinshanks]

I really enjoy the videos. A small variety of voice actors could be nice.

[@MrGallade475]

Vorticella look like they should be making Dio time stop noises

[@luici]

8:48 You have easily showed how evolution works. I mean this is comparable also with human evolution, human learning and the creation of a complex language for communication

[@PatDuffy197]

Absolutely loved the shot of Spirostomum getting pooped on; I have a MSc in marine science in protistan pooping ecology so I'm extra-entertained. More poop videos! Poop is the base of the aquatic environment! :p

[@njcripper]

You guys should hookup with the The Slow MO Guys

[@thenaturekid3739]

3:23 what is that wormlike microbe

[@airplayn]

They trigger so easily they do it a lot, doesn't that cost them a lot in energy?

[@randomdude8877]

I have a question and maybe someone can help me out. What are those microbes about we have seen in the video? Do they serve any important function in the grand scheme of life?

[@OctorokSushi]

What they didn't show here was every single one of these microorganisms getting 2 for flinching.