Tiny animals live inside glaciers!

[@adamamacdonald]

Ariel, your wonderful videos are so informative and my daughters and I love watching them. My daughter says you're like Horton and the cryoconite pucks are like Whoville if you're familiar with the story. Thank you for sharing and for helping me expose my young girls to STEM with a strong role model.

[@ArielWaldman]

I’m so happy to hear! And that’s possibly my favorite Dr. Seuss story. I often think about how we Earthlings are on that tiny mote of dust trying to understand if there are any others on pieces of dust in our universe, but maybe we just can’t hear each other (yet).

[@mranthonymills]

That's a really cool site! As someone who does Web site engineering for a living, I'm impressed. :)

[@ArielWaldman]

Thank you! Lisa Ballard and Matt Biddulph were the amazing developers who helped me bring it to life.

[@MultiNacnud]

5:07 Gladiatorial battles?I thought Maximus Decimus Meridius was a mouthful until i found Pseudoglutamicibacter cumminsii .

[@ArielWaldman]

Good to know...

[@zapfanzapfan]

Maybe it too will have its vengeance ;-)

[@stevenbrown9275]

Fascinating subject. I wonder if this phenomenon helped life survive snowball earth. I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for posting.

[@HoraceTheClown]

That's an idea that has been explored! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gbi.12191

[@ArielWaldman]

When I first learned about snowball Earth (as an adult) I was instantly fascinated. So many cool implications about it.

[@zapfanzapfan]

"Cryoconite" sounds like something Batman and Robin would use instead of a swear word. "Holy cryoconite Batman!" :-) That, or the name of a legendary news anchor from the 60s...

[@ArielWaldman]

I should start exclaiming holy cryoconite in my daily life

[@cpoco]

I came here from the link in your latest Antarctica email and want to thank you for it... it put a big smile on my face seeing the work you and your colleagues were doing and the Life Under The Ice page is brilliant. I hope you have a very merry Christmas and that the Turkey successfully thaws!

[@Freakoutski]

Your viewers have learned so many exciting things through your channel Ariel. I've been following you for at least a year (via Tested), but I today I noticed your subscriber/view counts and was blown away by the relatively small numbers, because your content exceeds the standard of so many science communicators who have a reach of millions. I really hope it doesn't discourage you because the world is a better (and more informed) place with you in it. I'll always be smashing that like button (even if you can't bring yourself to ask for it ).

[@ArielWaldman]

Thank you for your kind words! Having awesome caring viewers like you are more important to me than numbers.

[@GothMusicLatinAmerica]

Super fun and interesting stuff as always! I do love anything that mentions Antarctica.

[@ArielWaldman]

Thanks! It certainly won’t be the last :)

[@deepthinkerpoet]

Mini-universe! Wild. 🤩

[@ToddLarsen]

Should have heard me trying to pronounce Cryoconite holes before I watched the video and heard you pronounce it lol Very fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing and as always keep building❓

[@ArielWaldman]

Haha. Been filming and editing a lot which hasn’t left much time for building things except maybe some cookie dough and gluing stands onto some laser cut letters, but I’m keeping busy for sure.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

This might have been one of the ways life was able to survive the Cryogenian Period 650 million years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

[@ArielWaldman]

I totally love learning about all things Snowball Earth! I did a video on it a while back.