Meet the Microcosmos

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Join us on the first episode of Journey to the Microcosmos as we take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green, we hope to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey!

6/24/2019

How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch

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On this week's journey, we explore the ways things eat in the microcosmos, from Stentors filter feeding to Dileptus hunting down and absorbing its prey.

7/1/2019

Stentors: Single-Celled Giants

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It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE!

7/8/2019

How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?

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How do stentors make more stentors? Does Paramecium reproduce sexually or asexually? Find out on this week's journey as we explore the ways the microcosmos reproduce!

7/15/2019

Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory

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1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and ask the question, "Are our cells more than ourselves?"

7/22/2019

Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal

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We know these cute little water bears can survive the vacuum of space but are they actually immortal? We'll explore that and other misconceptions about tardigrades in this week's journey!

7/29/2019

How Do Protozoa Get Around?

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If you were a protozoan, how would you zoom zoom zoom all around the microcosmos? From false feet to microtubules, find out how these single-celled eukaryotes make their way through the universe.

8/5/2019

Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space

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We owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!

8/12/2019

Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures

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Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.

8/20/2019

How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?

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In the microcosmos, it's dangerous to go alone. This week we go on a journey into colonies to find out why sticking together is such a great strategy!

8/26/2019

Death in the Microcosmos

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Death is inevitable and mysterious, even in the microcosmos. Stentors, heliozoans, and yes, even tardigrades, experience death in many different ways.

9/2/2019

Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters

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Euglenoids have had a very, very long time to evolve, and that has led to the things they have evolved into being extremely diverse—so diverse that, combined with the varied shape-shifting abilities of its member species, euglenoids have proven challenging to both identify and classify.

9/9/2019

Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal

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The hydra of mythology may not be as far off from reality as you think! Let's take a journey to the mall to meet our tentacled, regenerating friends!

9/16/2019

Relax and Enjoy the View

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This week, we're taking a bit of a break, but we thought you might also like one. So, today, let's all just sit and look at our lovely little friends while we take a breath and enjoy Andrew Huang's amazing music.

9/23/2019

Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted

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Slimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life...a challenge it conquered.

10/1/2019

Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored

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We also don't really know what rotifers are... but we'll try to tell you as much as we know!

10/7/2019

The Microscopic Circle of Life

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Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific physical and chemical situations. And this planet has a dizzying variety of such circumstances that, over millions or even billions of years, living chemical systems have evolved to thrive in.

10/14/2019

Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters

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Yes, they might eat your brain, but there's a lot more to amoebas than that!

10/21/2019

The Colors of the Microcosmos

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We see the colors of the microcosmos every single week, but let's stop and ask why our some microbes are bright green, while others are a golden brown.

10/28/2019

Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades

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This week, the microcosmos meet the cosmos as we explore even more fascinating things about our friend, the tardigrade. We'll discuss their weird weird mouths, how we take care of our tardigrades, and what's going to happen to those tardigrades that crashed into the moon.

11/4/2019

Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?

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Where is the line between good and bad microorganisms and why do we seem to know so much more about the bad ones?

11/11/2019

Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates

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These world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.

11/18/2019

Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink

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Microbes are used for everything from baking to brewing, but wastewater treatment is where they do some of their most important work.

11/25/2019

What Microscope Do We Use? (And Other Frequently Asked Questions)

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12/3/2019

What Humans and Stentors Have in Common

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This week, we're diving back into the world of Stentors to find out what humans and Stentors have in common!

12/9/2019

Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers

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These little hairy-bellied friends lead a very interesting life, albeit a short one.

12/16/2019

We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?

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This week's journey comes to you unedited and in real-time as we explore a mysterious infection.

12/23/2019

What If All the Microbes Disappeared?

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In a world without microbes, this channel wouldn't exist. But there are other, more important things that would stop existing as well, and today we're going to explore just what could survive a world without our little micro friends, and for how long.

12/31/2019

Desmids: The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals

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1/6/2020

Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything

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1/14/2020