The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles

When was the last time you saw a puddle? Was it recent-perhaps some time in the past week, fresh from a downpour? Or has it been a long time since you’ve seen rain, and so an even longer time since your path has crossed a puddle?
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Dude, seriously. I thought it was only 2 years or something...

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yeah who elese has been here since day one and now realized that in the blink of an eye its been 4 years!! at first I just couldn't get enough of Hanks sleepytime voice but man the adventures we've been on!

[@Fr33man]

"When was the last time you saw a puddle". *Me in the UK*

[@MostIntelligentMan]

lol u never seen a puddle, uk is distopian urban no nature state, no some water on a road is not a puddle

[@enlightenedbanana]

@@MostIntelligentManlol my dude gate keeps puddles

[@Fr33man]

@@MostIntelligentMan dude.. the UK is 90% greenery. Even in cities there are parks and greenery everywhere except central cities. I suggest you visit before speaking

[@2Cats_ina_Trenchcoat]

​@@MostIntelligentMan What a strange thing to say. Your username is misleading it would seem.

[@AndrewGillard]

… and after _this very video_ showed James Ourmasterofmicroscopes taking a sample from _"some water on a road"_ 🤔 I've lived all over South England and South Wales, always in regular towns/cities (not fancy farm houses in the countryside or anything), and yet I've never lived more than a 10-minute walk away from plenty of green space - usually proper fields, rivers, green hills, etc. What a strange comment 🤷‍♀️ (And yes, what an oddly wet August this is! Though I much prefer this over the 30+°C days we had last August, IIRC. Saves me watering the garden as much, too :))

[@incyray9709]

I really love the word ‘animalcules’ and think we should use it more, I find it really charming! It has a certain cuteness to it c:

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[@malootua2739]

I've always stared into pools and ponds of water, or into the ocean along the shore. I've also spent an enormous amount of time freediving. Water pulls me towards it like a magnet. I spent loads of time as a child mesmerized by wiggly mosquito larva in a wheelbarrow full of rainwater out in my parent's garden. I took some mosquito larva to my room and examined them under my father's microscope. You know what really blew my mind? Diving at night in the deep South Pacific. It's amazing what you see wiggling around in the beam of your flashlight with the inky blackness as a backdrop! You just never imagine those creatures are there until you see them like living wiggling motes of dust floating in a beam of sunlight- all fully illuminated in stark detail even to the naked eye

[@StarCrusher.]

Outstanding narrator. Hope he joins more often.

[@RyanCoomer]

at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.

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I never would of expected to read that story today when I woke up this morning

[@sleepy1122]

This seems unethical. I hope your jacket passed the health inspection. 🤣

[@RyanCoomer]

@@sleepy1122 I have a food handlers license... plus, the hard exoskeleton of the corndog keeps bacteria at bay

[@radkagajdikova9118]

Loved this episode. Great work of the new narrator. Thank you again.

[@bcr044]

I always collect flatworms from my creek whenever it rains. I keep them as pets for a while and sometimes feed them mosquito larvae

[@angelalewis3645]

A couple days ago, my retriever puppy happily ran to a very smelly puddle in the street gutter and laid down in it, then looked at me and grinned like she was having the best experience ever! I gave her a bath immediately. 😆 But oh that I’d thought to sample that beautifully stinky water!

[@PurringMyrrh]

We need a "little animalcules" shirt!! Whaaaaaat?! And by we, I mean me!😍

[@angelalewis3645]

I do, too!

[@graycolour]

22 years ago my best friend and I worked at amusement park where we would Rochambeau to see who has to lick puddles (tongue tap) in the park… I won 9/10 times because of his tell & to my amazement, neither of us got sick.

[@MusicMissionary]

When I was a teenager with a microscope it was puddles for rotifers, stock tanks for cyclops & daphnia.

[@dia9491]

My favorite puddles are muddy puddles and no I’m not quoting Peppa Pig. The most active samples I’ve ever had were muddy puddles from my moms front yard. They’re amazing. So much life! Sadly it’s getting covered by concrete this week and I’m going to have to find a new sampling spot.

[@BrianFedirko]

Congrats on being listed on Morning Brew... I've watched your stuff for a long time now.. ☮

[@jewiesnew3786]

I just used a microscope today and took a sample of water from a puddle with algae growing, I was my first seeing rotifers on a single drop

[@existentialcrisisactor]

I roll my bike right into every puddle i find 😂

[@SnowyButterfly1]

Havent you seen the sign that says rotifer crossing you could have hurt one😢😢😢

[@VoyageintotheMicro]

Puddles are absolutely wonderful and we love looking in them to see what is coming out of encystment. The differing protists that progress from a fresh rainfall through to it nearly drying up is absolutely fascinating. Thank you to James for sharing his observation through his DIC microscope!

[@zacharywong483]

Lovely video, as always!

[@Beryllahawk]

It has been QUITE some time since I saw a puddle, as the area I live in is enduring record high temperatures AND a drought (though drought, in the US Southeast, is a little different from drought in say, Arizona). There was rain for the first time in at least six weeks, last night - but it was a mere cloudburst and no puddles were formed, because the water was gone almost as soon as it hit the ground. But I have often stopped to look at larger puddles, fascinated by the macroscopic critters (tadpoles, bug larva) revealed in bright sunlight at just the right angle.

[@wmpx34]

Same here on the Gulf Coast. It’s rained once in like three weeks, even the giant oak trees are starting to shed some leaves due to lack of water

[@jessehunter362]

The colorado river has a few

[@TCraats]

Your "van Leeuwenhoek" pronunciation is spot on! It stood out to me, as normally English speakers tend to have some trouble there.

[@grahamrankin4725]

It is "dry season" here in Oregon. Very little rain so few puddles.

[@ishanprajapati9967]

0:54 imagine being in africa. Bro roasted em😂

[@alexanderhannibal]

Thanx! Can You do the same but with the water from the rain?

[@judyb1539]

I absolutely ❤your contten!!!😊

[@jakobraahauge7299]

an excellent speak! 😙👌 what a delight!

[@lilysceeliljeaniemoonlight]

Amazingly cool. I had help my mama by clearing the guttering around the roof edge. I was sitting there looking at the wet sludge that had leaves n mud m water in it , I wondered what exactly I could not see and thought yo myself I may be destroying a Tardigrades home. For the sake of the roof not leaking inside, it had to be done Mama said 'knockem out'

[@myrmatta1]

I love staring into shallow puddles just to see if I can spot any arthropods.

[@ErinOBrien-io9qm]

Is it "animolecules", or "animalcules'? I know its small but..... Inquiring minds want to know! Love your channel. Keep up the great work.

[@jjknight5627]

Are we sure there aren't micro organisms living in the actual rain itself?

[@akosbertalot]

How do you guys film through the microscope?

[@emmanuelsanchez9303]

Animalcule sounds so much cooler than Microorganism, it should have stuck

[@Dylan-le9zi]

What I think about a lot is the concept of 3D and perspective, like everything from the slice of a slide under the microscope to the layers of a galaxy in the eye so a telescope, to the layers of crystals the scopes are made of. Every time it seems to be a 2D slice the depths just get larger the smaller it seems. I get these waves of reality where I understand texts books of information in seconds but don’t have the words to explain why and how. The layers of understanding a cells mitosis relation to a black holes life span of radiant boarder’s connection to photosynthesis isn’t complicated it’s expressing this information in a manner in which you’ll understand too is complicated.

[@dannydevito7000]

I think about this too. The way I think of it is that there are underlying patterns to everything in the universe. At the very smallest scales, these patterns are known as the laws of physics. Another level up these laws of physics govern chemistry. As you get to larger scales, chemistry governs biology, and then biology governs psychology,etc. But the laws of physics are still what is fundamentally running the show at every level. So by understanding science, you start to make connections to other areas of science that are first glance don't seem connected. But the rules are the same for everything.

[@Takatakyong]

I watered my garden and saw several yesterday

[@MCTimemaster]

take note of puddle location sweep up a sample of the terrain when dry. view under microscope hydrate sample view again

[@roadhog5154]

What microscope do you use? Or reccomend? I scoured your videos and couldn’t find what one you use, sorry if it’s been asked already

[@brendakrieger7000]

Always very fascinating🔬🦠💚

[@NewMessage]

Thought this was gonna be about my puppy's worms infection for a second.

[@angelalewis3645]

😂

[@angelalewis3645]

Too funny because my puppy also had worms recently. What a mess.

[@Cleeon]

Ooh i see, it's rainy at Europe nowadays?

[@DrewAk49]

What happens if you drink them?

[@HazelVsTheWrld]

As someone who lives in Florida, i saw a puddle yesterday.

[@user-uc4tr9jr2l]

Witch Microscope ?

[@carlosc137]

I was expecting tardigrades

[@rickwyant]

Is there some way I could buy the microscope on a payment plan?

[@sicko_the_ew]

I think they might have originally pronounced "animulcules" something like "Ah-ni-mahl-KOO-lays". (So, roughly, Latin, something anyone educated in those times could understand, and even communicate in.)

[@brianedwards7142]

EVERYONE loves jumping up and down in muddy puddles. 🐖👢

[@Hallgrenoid]

Tardigrade sounds like what you get when you show up late to class.

[@SotraEngine4]

Nice narrator voice

[@caiden-_-]

Howdy

[@darthsanz3701]

3 months since I saw a puddle

[@HellOnWheel]

I am not a scientist and am prepared to be wrong, but I think you are mispronouncing animalcule. You are adding a vowel sound between "mal" and "cul", where there is none.

[@StellarLimpkin]

Hey hank

[@livingcosmos_3]

I wonder what they sound like and taste like if they were big enough to heard or cooked. Or kept as potential pets. What if there is a macrocosmos outside our planet Earth for whom we are microcosmos.

[@Imbapiranha]

Poodles!

[@Shnarfbird]

not hank, but i do want to learn about this...

[@sparXKuijper]

Animal-cules .. no 'i' .

[@tcwarlord]

soon i be getting my first microscope allways wabted 1 should arrive this week if i like this hoby il be getting infinity grade scope entry level infinity is good

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Wishyou would turn the bloody 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 off. It does my head in.

[@KartikPatel-nt4ff]

😅😅😅well ingormeti0n.Good show more 😅😅😅

[@hikerJohn]

It's not ana-molecules . . . it's anamal-cules

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just say NO to 'vocal crisp', don't do it, it's annoying as hell and sounds like there is something wrong with the mic.

[@Alexa-Raine]

Backwards This Read Would Fools Only

[@MrNegative101]

There was almost nothing in this. You just talked about puddles… you show the same creatures every time and just read. This is getting old fast.

[@EdgarAllan2pointPoe]

You have an apt username.