Watch a Stentor Fix Itself

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Today James, our master of microscopes, is using a microscopy slide as a cutting board, chopping away at the slide to end up with a bunch of individual stentors.
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[@myrmatta1]

I will miss this channel. Microscopy is one of my favorite things!

[@TheDamagedKoda]

Why what happened? They're almost at 1m subs

[@phionella7]

​@@TheDamagedKodahe explained it in the last video. Basically the channel cannot support itself or its staff so the channel will stop uploading new material at the end of the year.

[@TheDamagedKoda]

@@phionella7 that's fucking crazy how is that possible lol well i guess they do a lot

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Nooooo

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Hear hear!

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praying that PBS will fund this project or something... its just too perfect!

[@DataSoong101]

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Please upload your videos!

[@DataSoong101]

@@IJH-Music Maybe someday...

[@bigj3086]

Keep on keeping on my friend!

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I totally agree. Please share your adventures in learning. I would subscribe.

[@sarahyoung646]

This is what I said when sharing the "future of" vid with multiple secular homeschool fb groups I'm in: I'm so sad to see this channel ending, but I want even more for people to know about the ongoing treasure trove of vids that will continue to live here. Even if you've never been interested in microbiology, maybe _especially_ if you haven't, go check out a few. Pass the word about them, especially to kids. These are exactly the kinds of fresh looks at unicellular life (and other wee things) that can inspire a lifetime of passion for the field in some few of us lucky enough to see them. And we all need who those people will become, and what they'll discover.

[@NathanaelNewton]

Plz don't close the channel 😭😭😭 But regardless, it's been a wonderful journey 💜

[@Cr3zant]

It's not closing, it's just not producing new content anymore.

[@ChadwickHorn]

When I first read the title, I thought it said "Watch a Senator fix itself." My first thought was "good luck with that." 🤣

[@alfieho-br1cw]

Nanomachines, son.

[@unconcernedsalad2]

i thought the same thing lol

[@qwertydavid8070]

@@alfieho-br1cw THEY HARDEN IN RESPONSE TO PHYSICAL TRAUMA, YOU CAN'T HURT ME SON 💪

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

DONT FRET OVER FRYING EVERY EGG JACK 👹👹👹

[@sammyjones8279]

​@@alfieho-br1cwthat's a nice argument, alfieho, but why don't you back it up with a source?

[@cyberbiosecurity]

when this channel's team tells me to watch a Stentor Fix itself - I watch.

[@ronaldmartin2666]

Im just sad about this channels death cuz I’ll miss asmr Hank. But don’t take it too hard guys, feel pride in what you’ve produced and contributed

[@alechall7082]

4 years later and my brain still struggles to recognize this as actual footage. I'm convinced that going back and rewatching these over the years will be more and more enjoyable for this reason.

[@kristapsmuravjovs7061]

I will forever cherish this channel. It has made me excited and mezmerised, and happy. It's probably too late to ask you to stay, but even if you don't - you've been awesome and we love you.

[@GhostNinja0007]

Wish I was a millionaire so I could give you all the money you need to continue this gem of a channel! You will be missed, but not forgotten!!

[@2boredYT]

I wasn't really into micrology, but these videos always interest me when I'm free every now and then. I'll miss this channel. Everyone will.

[@jshaw4757]

Free every now and then ?..what is the matter are you not free 🙃

[@michaeldete9058]

Es ist völlig unverständlich, dass die beste Reihe von Mikrokosmos-Dokus zu Ende geht! Als studierter Biologe war ich stets gespannt auf einen neuen Film. Ich bin sehr traurig, wünsche jedoch allen Producern viel Erfolg für andere Unternehmen!

[@jordanwoods462]

I read a book about whether consciousness exists in microbes, and there was an interesting tidbit about stentors. Apparently they can tell the difference between food and other debris, and they can actively filter out non-food particles when feeding. Pretty cool for a single-celled organism.

[@sjzara]

There definitely isn’t consciousness present. Consciousness requires the ability to model the world and your state within it. There is nowhere near the processing capacity in a single cell.

[@NeovanGoth]

It's just a piece of molecular machinery reacting to sensory input. Conway's Game Of Life has shown that even a handful of very simple and fixed rules can result in surprisingly complex behavior.

[@jordanwoods462]

Oh I totally agree with you guys. I didn’t mean to imply that they did have consciousness. That was just the premise of the book where I learned some cool things about stentors. The book was interesting though. It’s been a few years since I’ve read it, but I think I remember the author arguing that consciousness is all a spectrum, rather than binary, and I think it used these examples of simple machinery to beg the question of where consciousness starts. The book is called Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness.

[@sjzara]

@@jordanwoods462 It's a fascinating subject - I'm currently (slowly) writing a book on consciousness, so it's a central interest of mine.

[@mrcrazyadd2]

6:58 was extremely pleasing to watch

[@InfiDale3476]

Ok. Now Journey to the Microcosms fix itself!! Playin’, I’ve REALLY enjoyed this run!! Thank you.

[@bennyfactor]

3:12 Stentors look like a teeny tiny version of the Doomsday Machine in the original Star Trek

[@StoneyRerootkit]

I Noticed That As Well❤🎉 Too Cool😊 Perhaps Gene Roddenberry Owned A Microscope😍🦅🌊🛡💢

[@Henkiwashere]

Imma miss this channel so much. Please I hope something can pick it up

[@2nostromo]

So many other subject areas to study. How use stains... zebra fish eggs and fertilization... the life processes and functions of enzymes in metabolism/anabolism. So much to learn.

[@eelboy]

If you really think about it, if humans were able to fully regenerate a lost limb, or being cut in half, the recovery time would probably last weeks, to months, to probably even years. The fact that these little guys can regenerate within hours is so amazing. I know that size is an important factor here, but still. We may be much more complex creatures, but these guys definitely have the better superpower.

[@johnnydarling8021]

0:24 it looks like a plastic grocery bag, majestically caught in an updraft.

[@Dyna07]

Fr😂😂

[@rot_studios]

James, you monster :D

[@enterahandle]

Another beautifully written masterpiece from deboki. 😊

[@PunkRockPetSitter]

I’m sad this channel is ending! Hopefully someone with enough resources has been inspired by this series and continues to post similar content. Would do it myself if I had the resources & education to do it properly.

[@tenfriskydingos]

Can't express how much I'll miss you all and our journeys, or how grateful I am to the entire team for being this to us all. Only regret is that I didn't move on the microscope in time 😞

[@AlexAzureOtaku]

Knowing I'm going to come back to these videos years later for my background playlist is bittersweet

[@MrRaymondReddington]

Great channel guys, found you a couple of days ago and yiy truly open up a totally different mentalitu towards what life is for many through the offering of perception of another scale of existence. All the best.

[@bikedawg]

As Spock would say: "Fascinating!"

[@jonbradley4789]

Another delightful episode. Nice that you have sponsors and other financial supporters to fund this enjoyable and informative content. I would find it very appropriate to have your content available in the classrooms of our youth with hungry minds. I could imagine free access to libraries and community centers to showcase more quality STEM content like this. I encourage all whom like this channel to subscribe, hit the thumbs up button, and give your support that feeds the You Tube algorithm which helps this channel and any others you like. I makes a Huge difference to the creators. Hats off for the excellent writing, narration and fantastic editing. WoW! Those visuals. Having captioning available One more thing, everyone should be encouraged to post in the comments section. Good, bad, middle or critical. It really helps this team and the whole creative community when there is feedback. An interesting side effect of writing your comments down directly feeds the growth of this very content. This is a way of shining a light upon something you enjoy.

[@johnlowell5905]

Teasing us with what we all will be missing soon.

[@alexandermcclure6185]

The analogy with the spaceships made me cry 😭

[@scubastevewa8580]

I love this channel, I'll be so sad when its gone.

[@mayaenglish5424]

Love this channel, very sad it's ending! You guys are great!

[@sciencenerd7639]

This is a great video, thanks!

[@Smokeybluetheraccoon]

These videos are so calming

[@vancesumrall1829]

i will watch every video a million times to keep this channel around

[@killslay]

I really loved this channel from the first video, so sad to see it go. Currently there isn't really much on KZbin to replace my microscopy fix 😢

[@kyaintit]

These are so fascinating!

[@AuthenticDarren]

This channel must not end!

[@Yezpahr]

I stand with you. This channel must not end!

[@ghrey8282]

I grew up looking through a microscope, I will truly miss this channel.

[@mataznuiz]

my favourite microorganism!

[@diemattekanzlei9124]

Amazing video

[@Arkie80]

I'll miss this channel. Binge watching it has always relaxed me.

[@myriamlopezfernandez2089]

Madre mía!!. Su trabajo es imprescindible!!

[@stevenkarnisky411]

You will be very much missed! This was an awesome epislde!

[@KathleenStidham]

❤ Fascinating, as always.

[@peopleeps4756]

6:57 the way these 3 stentors circle each other into forming a perfect triangle is so pretty I could loop it forever 💖🦠

[@iambiggus]

Loved it!

[@Clovis_Rose]

Gosh, beautiful video and beautiful stenter

[@Gelatinocyte2]

Man, I can't believe it's been 5 years since this channel/project started!

[@markmuller7962]

Perfect video to make all of us feel the loss of this channel even deeper

[@livimarie7868]

Absolutely love this channel it’s so sad to see it go :,((

[@jurjenbos228]

The part at 4:40 where you see the stentor's cells reorganise themselves is absolutely mind blowing.

[@dogapz]

Love this channel! Please!!!

[@henrys2206]

Love this Chanel im glad we still have one more year. I was able to buy the microscope but couldn't get the oblique and dark field filters any recommendations on where to get them.

[@markedis5902]

Can you let us know what James is doing after the channel finishes and keep us in touch with anything major

[@Conus426]

why would you do that to a poor little stentor :( i wish them all the best, so glad they can regenerate so good

[@JO-cz5gx]

Hi could you do a video similar to this but with hydras ? Or maybe a video where we see the way hydras eat ? And how often do you use sped up footages ? Could you indicate the speed of the footage with the magnification ?

[@remingtonfiore9721]

I believe that they’re sadly ending the channel

[@tomhomunculus]

​@@remingtonfiore9721 not just yet, there's still time.

[@PondScummer]

I think they already have a video on hydras

[@elaineblanchard4775]

This is so neet i forgot how much fun a microscope was 😂❤😊

[@user-jm9iw6mm9o]

Make more like this one , experiment with different toxins , see how long it takes to built a resistance against those toxins

[@stax6092]

I am still miffed that this channel is going away.

[@tanyachou4474]

Everyone who come here might need a support group, because everyone here are worth meeting

[@nhokonhokopuala]

1st of all I'm amazed❤❤ 2nd and perhaps ridiculous... Ive been learning some neat tricks about Procreate and brushes and that little strain right there! I need that texture😂 i know it's silly... But beauty comes out of nowhere.

[@Crocy]

The Stentor of Theseus

[@justinpatterson5291]

Reminds me of: As a ship ages, and parts are replaced. How much of it could be replaced, before it's no longer the same vessel that launched?

[@himamsusubedi4129]

5:04 this is so real. Looking at it is just like looking at art

[@sparkycorkers1196]

There is nothing like this channel. Such a shame it's ending

[@ramous5182]

I guess a stentor of theseus question arises at some point xD

[@hectorbacchus]

I have an idea…”multicellular bacteria”. I’m not sure how easy it is to locate and show these species, but a general discussion on multicellular bacteria would be interesting. Unless you’ve already discussed this? 🤔😊

[@bunditniyomwanisha8700]

even a single cell organism is better at fixing than me😭

[@Ozzymandius1]

In an alternate reality, stentors are watching me fail to fix any of my problems.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

0:35 wen "college party" experience kicks in....

[@cumulonimbusderie]

I’ll miss yall

[@Nick-qq3sv]

From time about 1:12 to 1:30, what type of scope and slide were you using? I actually thought it was a CG render for a moment - it looks too perfect between the fully in focus stentors casting fuzzy shadows over what looks like an out of focus still from another microscope slide. I trust you that it's real footage, and that just makes me even more curious how it was filmed.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Awesome 👌 regeneration is more prominent than I thought or was lead to think in school half century removed. But the encoded process has definitely risen to the most dominant of all in my lifetime. We got in a lot of trouble for asking for or predicting it's measure in school because it was at odds with evolution then. Only if the movement listened then maybe Swedish discovery of dna could've been modern biology starting point instead of 100 year delay. Lol The times & age sychology appears to have one last dualistic attempt to place emphasis on the in between indirect lines of detection vs more direct lines measured as being an area of interest for some of assembly Theory selection crowd, some of the emerging consciousness factions, and of course white noise analog is something we already know well from music or TV & movies that once it's to digitally clear it makes it hard for us to zone out into .we like distortion says hair metal eras lol But I do think it has some value in these areas of ( is it life or not ) what it means to be a live. It may be some avenues we are mistaking in that could very well be explained physically here even if it doesn't give us the programmed data orgins. Or maybe it is vice versa but I personally doubt it.

[@Decodeish1]

It looks a bit like CGI on how smooth the stentors moved. Wow! I mean that as a compliment due to high quality and high framerate.

[@beergnomedc]

I'm sorry can we talk about the insane footage at the one minute mark?

[@bhuggins6059]

Words can not describe my sadness

[@ppartsx]

how did you get that view of the swimming stentor at the start and end of the video? the background looks like it adds visual depth to what's on the slide

[@user-iq2yp1dn1q]

for the macro nucleus, are the multiple copies of the genome perfect copies or are they diverse as if from different individuals. Are regenerated stentors identical clones if from the same individual.

[@elenaperez2569]

Que mundo tan facinante

[@something_strange3086]

I'm so sad I wasn't able to get the microscope before it sold out... How can I find a similar one?

[@joshuabrigden4820]

watching every last second because you're sad this will be gone soon!😔

[@Artrobull]

cold you just stream pond water on twitch?

[@ptonpc]

I'll miss you all when you go.

[@delanomcgee2923]

I'm very sad because I always wanted to learn from this channel but apparently it never set me a new video updates until I watched the one where you're saying this channel is ending 😢

[@goanna2012]

Just found it and they are closing ,Why?

[@masterchaoss]

What we gotta do to save the channel?

[@Elizabeth_the_Loaf]

Can we have the music on youtube?

[@lemonlizard1]

Will the shop close w/the channel?

[@josephstaggs6201]

Stentors recreate themselves like humans have small creatures that repair parts of our body when it’s damaged. I know that when you break a bone there is a small creature that uses acid to smooth the bone.

[@katjarozantseva8069]

How did you get a 1000x light microscopy 🤯

[@nelsoncabrera6464]

I'm gutted that this channel is ending.

[@TheTubejunky]

Stentors remind me of Fungi, prior to the fruiting stage that makes mushrooms!

[@lmv2s]

Give some love to the microcosmos.

[@billtomson5791]

🎶Don't it always seem to go You don't know what you've Got 'til it's gone...🎶 Joni Mitchell

[@ShroomedMisterCraft]

The truth is.. I am a stentor! I've been hiding it my whole life pretending to be a full sized human. Ik ow it's a shock but I think it's time to come out about it. I'm gonna go now and eat some particals.

[@ShakerCheeseIsRite]

Stentor of Theseus

[@jwoolson]

So stentors are the Wolverine of the protozoan microworld? How many protozoa can regenerate completely?

[@Maxsmorio]

omg so many people in 2 hours

[@gabrieloberleitner1799]

0:24 amogus