Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything

[@jmaes678]

Hank: “This is the last episode” Me: *is dying* Hank: “...of the first season” Me: “OMG THANK GOD”

[@mustachewalrus]

The perfect comment, I'm nominating it for a Webby.

[@eunoia2453]

Me too lol

[@XD152awesomeness]

Right???

[@KoiRun50]

My heart skipped a beat.

[@madisonking8057]

same

[@ssemo]

My fiancée calls this show “Sleepy time Bacteria”

[@smaakjeks]

I showed this to a friend who had trouble sleeping, and he accused me of surreptitiously teaching him more about biology.

[@Saka_Mulia]

Microbedtime for me :D

[@seanwebb605]

Carl Sagan if he over dosed on cough syrup.

[@rougnashi]

😐 Hmmm. That's what I call it. Suspicious.

[@johnjhill3]

Get one of the Video Speed Controller apps. Run Microcosmos at 150% speed. Also, turn your volume up way loud.

[@Vistico93]

I love every time you get a momentary view of the 3-D shape of these organisms. They become so much more real in those moments...

[@megenberg8]

yeah. it is about those waves & vibrations in the world of phenomena!

[@watamatafoyu]

Now I want to see their 4-D shapes.

[@TripleDVideos]

As someone that works with microscopy on a daily basis, this was wonderfully explained! Your science communication chops are showing!

[@tzvi7989]

second this

[@mr.mercury4247]

Except where they said "light doesn't enter your eyes". That was really stupid 😂

[@dandiisun6217]

Could you recommend a decent microscope to invest in which can also take picture/video Or hold a DSLR? Thank you

[@860rondo]

No

[@hvonsus5725]

I’m looking at going into the biological field, either for something related to microbio or for ecology and evolutionary biology - if you have time, do you know a good school that i could apply to? I was gonna look at a&m, but i’m not sure how everything is looked upon in the scientific world as I’m only a high schooler lol

[@Dmoney6278]

0:41 "the organism seems to be lit". My kind of organism

[@alveolate]

bruh, as if looking at these vids aren't trippy enough

[@hemprope4326]

👌💯

[@Evolved_Skeptic]

Yep, y'could watch them on weed & zone out. Or project them on the inner surface of a floatation tank, while using ketamine, for the maximum effect.

[@hemprope4326]

@@Evolved_Skeptic yeah 😎

[@jamiebarr3118]

I made 420th like hahah

[@guy3nder529]

i really like darkfield microscopy

[@supersonictumbleweed]

It looks like looking into the sea, underwater. How beautiful.

[@amentrison2794]

Even though there isn't just one answer to what microbes look like, darkfield seems to me to be most similar to how things look on our scale.

[@RoseIsAsleep]

Same, I need more

[@argenteus8314]

I like darkfield best overall, but I like the rainbow crystals of polarized microscopy too. I wonder if you could combine the two?

[@rayhans7887]

Darkfield microscope is very hard to calibrate

[@PirateOfTheNorth]

I’m not used to Hank sounding so calm. Usually in sci-show he’s so energetic. I didn’t recognise his voice at first. Great series by the way.

[@briannenurse4640]

The polarized light shots are always my favourite. Like you said, Hank, it's like looking into an entire cosmos wrapped up in a tiny little microbe. The world is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose. I love this channel, please keep up the good work!

[@MrCasual14]

Man, what a channel you guys have started. I found the first episode on reddit when it aired. Since then everytime you guys upload, everything gets put on hold for me to watch it. Just amazing content. Content that has given me a complete new perspective on the world and life. I've always been told about the microcosmos in school but it really hasn't ever clicked like it has watching your video's. Thank you and keep up the great work!

[@Shimmy246]

The best present I got as a child was an old brass and glass microscope. When I first looked at a drop of apparently clear water from an outside bucket and saw a whole mini universe of moving creatures I was amazed. Your channel reignited that fascination. The images are amazing and the narration is perfect, both informative and witty. Thank you to all involved. ❤️

[@noeldenever]

Such a profound way of seeing the world, gained from watching the beautiful critters in the microcosmos. That's Hank Green for you. What a wonderful episode to end a season. Thank you, and see you in the next one guys ❤

[@SimonClarkstone]

A question for next season: What senses do these microbes have and can they feel the bright light passing through them?

[@evilsharkey8954]

Simon Clarkstone, some of them sure can! It makes it hard to observe them when they keep running away, but I’d run away, too, if someone kept focusing a bright light on me!

[@anonymouswhite7957]

Many motile microbes have “eye” cells/organelles (photoreceptive cells/organelles, like those two dots on the tardigrade face at 8:25), so yep some can experience the light. For the response it vary between microorganisms, some try to get away from it, while some move closer to it. Also if we have to say objectively what would they “feel” in their own tiny umwelt, we don’t know for sure.. since we don’t have the necessary “senses” to experience them ._.

[@SimonClarkstone]

I expected some microbes would have a sense for ambient light, like photosynthetic ones. There might be some interesting specific species to show off too, e.g. with different-looking photosensitive organelles or colours or strange behaviours.

[@yyesterdayy]

Honestly im curious as to how they 'perceive' anything at all - do they have a central nervous system that can collate and process such information, or some decentralised one?

[@sydneyyxD]

YYE Starry I’m only a first year Biology student so correct me if I’m wrong, but most microorganisms “perceive” things through chemical signals from their surroundings. Their cell membranes interpret the signals through specific receptors, and the cell reacts accordingly.

[@hammedhaaret]

I completely lost focus on the narration when that living mikado set came on screen at 3:43. Would like to hear more about that one.

[@pokoirlyase5931]

Living mikado lol Yeah same here. I was like "wtf is even that?"

[@kimoloyola4574]

It’s called a sick stick

[@red_nikolai]

Same. I had no idea what I was looking at, it seemed too amazing to be real.

[@giantsquid2]

The way they slide past each other. So cool.

[@OlleLindestad]

It's Bacillaria, a kind of diatom! The species displayed in each clip are listed in the top left corner, for easy googling. :)

[@aledro1828]

This topic about what we see and what things really look like, allways blows my mind.

[@andylindsaytunes]

From season 2, I think we can all expect more bikini models, car chases, and explosions than season 1.

[@evilsharkey8954]

*pictures a tardigrade in a bikini*

[@willowarkan2263]

Explosions in biodiversity?

[@pizzarella985]

@@evilsharkey8954 picturing something like that is beyond the laws of the universe, please stop.

[@JamsGerms]

Huh! Let's see what we can!

[@pierrecurie]

Bacteria in bikini is being chased by a macrophage. After being inevitably eaten, bacteria fuses with vacuole in side macrophage and explodes.

[@smileyp4535]

11:30 it's also important to keep in mind that most of these organisms (obviously some but I imagine very few) can't even detect light at all! So their entire existence is based on touch and feeling of vibrations (and also maybe so perhaps use something akin to what we might call "smell) and any combinations there of so what something "looks like" really isn't somthing that even is a part of the experience of these organisms and it's a wonder of the magic of science that we get to "see" them at all (and in so many different ways!). Thank you to the Micro Cosmos team, Hank Green and all science communicators online who make learning and experienceing the world and universe fun and exciting 👏😁

[@rotifer]

4:58 - *Hey, you caught my good side!*

[@Broockle]

How do you write comments?!?!

[@ourochroma]

Love you rotifer

[@AlexVanChezlaw]

Based Rotifer

[@rotifer]

@@ourochroma 💚

[@hemprope4326]

Sup my boi?

[@Zacharythealien]

I live for these videos. Every monday I wait for them to drop and watch them as soon as I can. These are the only videos where I sit down for the whole duration and watch all the way through. Thank you.

[@sam21462]

Standing ovation for the first season. Thank you for this channel, it is truly wonderful. I look forward to season two and all of its wonderful and tiny guest stars.

[@Tocsin-Bang]

As someone who spent five years staring down a microscope in the 1960s. I love this. I initially worked as a histology technician, then moved to bacteriology, specialising in acid-fast organisms and then mycoplasmata. sadly we used none of these techniques. Pretty much everything was stained.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

I love you Hank Green. Let's go get a pizza when the pandemics over.

[@suddenrushsarge]

Hey I'm subbed to your channel!! :)

[@WimiBussard]

Still going on, we are entering the last third of this apocalyptic test run.

[@rinasremains]

10 months later and my country is still in a national lockdown

[@Alex-ki1yr]

"gorgeous bastards" lolll Love your work!

[@_motho_]

Man, what blows my mind is a majority of microbes are just... Living bubbles filled with smaller bubbles.

[@andrewanderson8803]

They are much more complex than that. The complexity comes from what you can’t see with an optical microscope. In reality, these microscopic organisms have hundreds of chemical moving parts!

[@watamatafoyu]

Many are strangely-shaped bubbles, like clown animal balloons.

[@Erin-000]

​@@andrewanderson8803I don't think they needed that explained lol its pretty much what they were saying... to us they appear to be small bubbles but they are amazing. Their seemingly small bubble bodies hold so much complexity.

[@HThoughtsH]

Made of what

[@KOKO-uu7yd]

Hank: ..."and then, we will be back..." Me: starts to breathe again!!😅

[@linefortier8595]

YES! COME BACK...

[@GyroCoder]

3:08 Woah.. is that a colony of single-celled organisms acting like a muscle fiber?

[@StarSpawnMusic]

I think so. This is fuckin cool.

[@barahng]

I believe that's bacillaria. This channel has a video on it.

[@B01]

Yeah, whatever it turns out to be I want more because omg was that cool 🤣

[@bludclone]

The complex Kaleidoscope of colors and detail you can capture filming these microbes is honestly just amazing.

[@Y_A_Z_F]

It's really amazing that these organisms are being observed by beings that they have no idea are here using a phenomenon (light) that most of the microorganisms can't even perceive. It makes you think.

[@timswarts2615]

"This will be our last episode.." *Heart stops* "..of our first season" *Insane relief*

[@rickbailey7183]

One easy trick, if you want to achieve darkfield microscopy without spending a bunch of money, is to place a penny onto the light source. You can even experiment with its position relative to the light source for best viewing.

[@goldentrout4811]

Yo you should show more of them under polarized light, it looks really cool!

[@aleksywnek95]

I just found Hank is also here. ALSO. HERE. How could that be? Man, u doing such an amazing job. Your person is doing as much, as literally 80% of system of education in Poland. Now imagine we would have a few people like you for each educational place (to hell with school, it's such outdated that we need to crate new name for it). Love ya

[@satyadivyach4544]

This makes me feel like it's not just the microcosmos that isn't what we actually think it looks like but the same applies to our universe. There might be hidden secrets that go beyond our visible range in the light spectrum. This is a wonderful episode showing us the intricacies of how we perceive things vs. what they actually are. Thanks a lot Hank for a wonderful season. Can't wait to Learn more

[@rickbailey7183]

Check out "Plato's Cave". It's a very profound philosophical demonstration that will change your life, once you start understanding it.

[@satyadivyach4544]

@@rickbailey7183 Thanks a lot for the suggestion. It was really interesting. Reminded me of the theory where the entire universe is a hologram and the book called the Grand design by Stephen Hawking where in one of the chapters he discusses our perception of the universe as that of a fish through a glass bowl.

[@robinchesterfield42]

8:39 Huh, I didn't know there were living emeralds. That is SERIOUSLY gorgeous. :)

[@rqzzlldqzzls]

... a glowing tardigrade ... pretty please ??? Edit : i am happy . I am satisfied . I am no longer sick , my life is completed .

[@PeterVJaspersFayer]

@ 11:47 - What!? Wait, what? Oh no. @ 11:49 - Oh. Whew. OK, I can live with that. Thank you, Hank & co. I've enjoyed all of the episodes very much, and I (like so many here) are thankful you're continuing.

[@oz5858]

These videos are so informative, and really calming too

[@jakobraahauge7299]

Yeah! And soberingly dry yet beautifully poetic 🥰 and super entertaining! But I guess with this voice and diction, I would be happy if he read from a phone book or something like that 🤭

[@OhMyRoystone]

This is easily one of the best KZbin channels in its history. Highly sophisticated and educational, yet simple and beautiful. All that being made by individual creators, not some company. I'm truly grateful for every episode I see, dumbstruck every time. You're making this website's (and medium in general) history.

[@ChaosMagnet]

This is the best channel on KZbin!

[@djben1977]

The commentary along with Hank's voice is a perfect match. Easy to listen to. Also, a HUGE THANKS to the writers of this series. You all deserve an award. This is what needs to be used in our schools.

[@NeoWasami]

I have always had an interest in microbiology...watching teeny things moving around silently performing mysterious functions just seems so fascinating in a way I couldnt explain to others. For me it is the same as staring into a fire or looking into the sky at night...an inner depth which may explain anything or maybe nothing. Hehe although I have to admit it is also a handy interest for when you want to wind down.

[@dizawndra]

This has been my most favorite episode so far! It answers so many questions I've had as I've watched the whole season. It leaves me thinking about Ed Yong's book, An Immense World -- and how very limited our perspective on the world is with just our view of the visible spectrum. It also makes me question the use of the term crystal as it so pertains to its perception using visible light. Finally, seeing these explanations of the types of microscopy used has me wanting to see more of the environment and practice of the microscopist and setting it up.

[@NeilVickers]

An absolutely fascinating series that makes me want to get myself a microscope again!

[@outgittymushroom8666]

You better take a fast break !!! Collect more of those germs while you out there too !! I'm Jp yourr voice is soooooo cool !! And this show make me feel so intelligent, I really dont want to watch anything else at night 😭😭 please hurry back!!

[@k0rls]

Thank you, I greatly enjoyed this season. I'm looking forward to the next.

[@bagfootbandit8745]

Is it weird that I fall asleep to these videos now? I'm glad I found this channel. Chill learning.

[@NerdOutWithMe]

PS- what is that thing at 3:08?! Pretty amazing!

[@kuronosan]

It's labelled if you want to look it up.

[@NerdOutWithMe]

@@kuronosan HA! Didn't even notice that on my phone. Cheers!

[@theowleyes07]

Spirogyra

[@dav1dsm1th]

It's a sentient venetiian blind.

[@annefoley6950]

This actually illuminates (pardon the pun) one of the themes in a book I've been reading. It also talks about polarized light in microscopy, and the strange things it reveals. And now I understand what the author meant by using that example, I understand what he means by layers and perspectives. What a delight.

[@hotdrippyglass]

Thank You to you and the team that put these together for us and Thank You as well to the patrons that funded this for those of us that could not.

[@cba99775533]

I'm totally fascinated by this! I never studied biology at school, and so never learned to use a microscope. I love watching and learning about micro organisms, so my wife bought me a digital microscope for my birthday. This video explains why I've been so unsuccessful. I'd love a follow up video showing the various setups.

[@HayTatsuko]

JttM was my best present of 2019. I look forwards to seeing future seasons! Many thanks!

[@ngbrother]

I had my own personal poinant moment of perspective awareness when the outro card appeared, and I realized I had watched this entire episode upside-down without noticing. Reminded me that my 'up' is left, right, back or front to most of the organisms shown.

[@rotifer]

*Season 2 let's GO!*

[@jakobraahauge7299]

Yes! Looking forward!! You seem awfully fascinating, I hope we get to see more of you, too! 😃

[@coltwindstorm2549]

I wanted to thank you for the clip of the bacillaria colony at 3:13. Years ago when I was maybe 12, my father brought out his old oil immersion and we took a slide of some brackish pond water. I remember seeing some funny looking critter that looked like a bunch of rulers stuck together sliding past each other. I always wondered what that was and now I have my answer!

[@journeytomicro]

And we'll be doing a whole video about them in the near future!

[@sachiperez]

Please, more like these about the techniques. Riveting, and always awesome!

[@LegionOfTheMany]

Light is very weird in microscope. Even in *foldscope,* different light conditions and wavelengths can make the image look differently. *Microcosmos is so beautiful.*

[@TheTwick]

Thank you for the tech instructions. One thing to talk about next season would be to describe more what is known about the organelles we are seeing. What are those fascinating little globules inside our little critters. Some for waste disposal, some for digestion, we’ll you get the idea. Ps. I didn’t see a link to your Patreon account.

[@maddprofessor]

I teach microbiology and am going to share this video with my students. It's such a beautiful way to teach the different types of light microscopy.

[@madisonking8057]

I was looking at Diffenbachia idioblasts and raphides yesterday. I feel like one of those phase microscopes would have made my job easier

[@lit3plumber12]

Best video on the channel to my information. Least said, most explained, wonderfully executed.

[@sachiperez]

Can these techniques be blended? Quickly switching between them and then bringing together selected aspects?

[@Kazemahou]

I would love to see an organism as a composite image of all four techniques, possibly enhanced via computation, into a fully realized whole!

[@Bareego]

also I wondered if you shot with high fps and had a a device quickly move the focus slightly within a defined range, if you could focus stack them into a slower fps film.

[@sachiperez]

@James Niland. Is that a ‘thing’ in another field? It sounds interesting and possible.

[@Bareego]

@@sachiperez It is in macro photography. People will mount something like a fly and then take a lot of macro photos of it. Between each photo the fly gets moved a very tiny bit, so the focused area is on a slightly different spot. Afterwards the series of photos gets put through a program that combines them into one photo that has all the sharp focus areas of all the separate ones. The process is referred to as focus stacking. Probably some videos about that on youtube.

[@Beryllahawk]

What a wonderful first season, what a lovely way to bring it to a close...and it's going to be mildly like torture to wait for the next season! I am so very glad you won't leave us quite yet. This channel has been such a pleasure to watch and to listen to; I've learned a lot and I've also treasured each little slice of meditative peace every week. I don't know which I value more, right now, the knowledge or the chance to just breathe and exist. The synergy of image and voice and music makes for an experience that's very zen.

[@LouisGedo]

4:21 *Yes.........a moss piglet!........you made my day!*

[@josephconstantine1799]

I just found this channel and it's absolutely brilliant! It is definitely my new favorite youtube channel. I plan to methodically view all of the uploads.

[@nightsage217]

My next question would be... What sort of visual experience tardigrates had? Since human eyeballs arent meant for this microcosmos, we probably need "eyes" from that world

[@BirdieRumia]

Imagining the visual experiences of a tardigrade? Shit man I think you just broke my brain. ...Have you ever read "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

[@MaestroRigale]

Imagining the qualia experienced by a tardigrade... is your red the same as my red?

[@valenesco45]

I guess they can only see different degrees of light to distinguish food from a threat.

[@Taeronai]

I really like the ambient background music. It makes the videos even more enjoyable. Thankye for this channel. I also very much like that narrative voice, very captivating.

[@jamesreid6940]

man i just love watching this when im super calm its nice and tranquil

[@jakobraahauge7299]

I like to see it when I'm not calm, and for the exact reasons why I like to watch them too, when I feel calm 🤭 It's as dope as a good session of mindfulness to me! 🥰

[@u0000-u2x]

I appreciate the more 'natural' tone of voice instead of the more 'theatrical' of other episodes :)

[@deakenwylie3819]

Hank? Be carfeful, now. I could detect actual emotion and excitement in your voice in this episode...

[@vspence2]

I got so excited when it got to the polarized light microscopy. Learning the optics of those types of microscopes was a huge part of my Optical Mineralogy and Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology classes, The labs were tedious but fulfilling since it involved looking at pretty colors and shapes from rock thin sections and learning to recognize the different minerals. For some reason it never occurred to me that this optical method could be useful in microbiology. I learned me a thing today 😃

[@TheFreshSpam]

2:06 Hes stolen all the candy crush candy and gems

[@spiercephotography]

Ahhhh, this whole episode is such eye candy !

[@brendakrieger7000]

I really enjoy this series💚🔬

[@92Pyromaniac]

Thank you so much for making this series! I find it utterly entrancing. In the last week or so I've been inspired to dig out my (very) old compound microscope which was discarded from a lab and given to me when I was a kid. I cleaned it up, fitted a much brighter LED light source and have since been having an incredible time discovering many of the familiar faces from this series. I cannot express the excitement and wonder at seeing a rotifer, a tardigrade or a vorticella for the first time, but surely you will know it. Please keep making this series!

[@gh0stmast3r]

You should narrate documentaries, you're like an American David Attenborough

[@katiekane5247]

This is pretty close.

[@essexrumi]

Hank is indeed a brilliant educator!

[@sshep86]

He's certainly easy to listen to. But no way near the level of the Attenborough.

Why did I just find this channel today? It's awesome!

[@lord_gillespie]

As usual this is an astonishing video. I think the "questioner" was probably referring to the exterior of microbes. We don't usually see through most macroscopic objects.

[@eddokter]

It would be interesting to have a VR experience of a microcosm world. Get a more depth filled view of the organisms rather than the flattened field we often see in a slide.

[@vasudeva01]

"Ce n'est pas un cilié."

[@sevsev4078]

Nice one hahah. Although shouldn't it say "Ceci" instead of "Ce"?

[@Somerled_Pox]

@@sevsev4078 Yes you're right, that's the only thing that needs to be changed

[@StarSpawnMusic]

Ok

[@sonorasgirl]

Watching this during quarantine insomnia. Thanks so much for this guys. It’s so soothing and calming during this anxious/sleepless time

[@BazilRat]

Have a good break, guys!

[@a_lucientes]

1:15 this is true of our vision and perceptions in general. We never actually see any objects itself, but only the light, and within the spectrum we're confined to, reflecting off of them.

[@ourochroma]

Season 2. Hell yeah :3

[@JayDaPeace]

I love this channel so much. Thank you for this, James and Hank.

[@azhurelpigeon]

So, if we were to blow one of these up to a visible size let’s say “the size of our hand”, would it look like a transparent blob with some green spots?

[@rafetizer]

I think he was suggesting it would not appear transparent due to the size difference.

[@azhurelpigeon]

Rafe Tizer Ah, but due to their small dose the light waves themselves shine through differently when under a microscope?

[@Pteromandias]

I just received my JttM microscope yesterday, and now I'm going back and watching your older videos that got me hooked, and learn how to get similar results.

[@elines.9890]

This was interesting! Also, the glitterlight (thats what Im gonna call it) is so beautifull !!

[@godalmighty5331]

7:46 AM and I have just watched the first episode, which happened to be the last in the series. Fantastic work, thank you for sharing it with us. From the Microcosom to the Macrocosm let there be light shines bright within us all . Sure some try to inflict darkness on to others but as you have shown, this is infact the key to enable certain organisms to shine at their best. This is comment 970 today is the 6th of December 2020 and the 361st day of the Apocalypse of Christ, announced 11th of December 2019. Thanks again with cheers! Charlie.

[@jakobraahauge7299]

This voice! You could make a fortune doing mindfulness! 😙

[@edgeeffect]

I'd rather he made a fortune doing science myself!

[@jakobraahauge7299]

@@edgeeffect quite honestly I already use these videos as a kind of mindfulness 😄 preferable he does what he needs to do and what he wants to do. I just hope that he'll be wanting to do mindfulness thing 😂 Perhaps a bodyscan! 😄

[@austinfite5833]

This channel really rocks!

[@doublemanok6569]

ahh what a relaxing video

[@jakobraahauge7299]

I sometimes watch these for like mindfulness! 🤭

[@poppedweasel]

Thankyou for making this series. It's educational, relaxing, aesthetically and aurally pleasing. Enjoy your break. Looking forward to series 2.

[@Ed-zv8ot]

noooooooooo!!! come back!!!!!! oh just a week away?! promise??? I'll be waiting then _ like a couch stalker lol Seriously though, enjoy the break because you deserve it.

[@mlucas4144]

I love how fractal the universe is. That is, our microcosmos shares similarities to our larger cosmos, out in space. Because as you describe the forms of light we use to see the microcosmos, and how none of them are really THE ONE objective way to understand their existence, I think of nebulas and how we see an interpretation of the light they shine at us. If we were able to travel into distance space toward them, we would not see the colorful plumes of gas and cosmic matter that the Hubble telescope images showed us. Pretty cool to think of the similarities between the two “worlds”.

[@Phoe]

11:46 i almost had a stroke

[@sabofx]

How can anyone not be fascinated by your videos? Amazing and unique! Keep it up! 💖

[@emmajay5666]

Asmr at 5am, just what I need to sleep.

[@nicholasgarrett8594]

Fantastic program. One of few I actually get excited for when the thumb nail appears in my notifications!

[@martijnvanweele6204]

Brightfield Ciliate Darkfield Ciliate Phase-Contrast Ciliate Polarized Ciliate The four Ciliates of the apocalypse

[@rougnashi]

Insomnia beware

[@RobinDSaunders]

Long ago, the four ciliates lived together in harmony...

[@chrislewis8714]

I am an Avionics engineer who has to consider things like phase, amplitude and polarisation when it comes to aircraft comms and Radar. It's really interesting to see how these same principles are applied in such a different sphere of knowledge.

[@jpso-an5363]

2:21 kinda looked like this dude projected a pseudopodia doing "the finger"

[@hemprope4326]

That microbe was flipping us off 😤

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

When I was a casual non-focused kid with my toy microscope in the Fifties, I was only interested in the live specimens I brought in from puddles and ponds. I did this in Washington State, Tennessee, Okinawa, and Colorado. I couldn't understand the very few adult adult books I found about the subject. In Florida I tried as hard as I could to see salt-water luminescent organisms: zero results. I discovered some of these techniques accidentally. I often struggled to bring them back, sometimes successfully. This show, with its quiet narration, is a perfect recall of the quiet intimate tantalizing solitude of me and my microscope. It's very nostalgic for me. I thank you for it.