Journey to the Microcosmos
The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along The Way | Compilation
This channel wouldn’t be what it is if it weren’t for one very key invention: the microscope. Everything we see, we see with the aid of light and lenses, expertly deployed by our master of microscopes, James. And if you’ve been on this...
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Microscopy-I
It explains the basic principle of working of a compound microscope and lists various types of microscopes used to view biological material.
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Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
This Loxodes magnus is large, so large that it was able to eat a rotifer, those funny animals we often see getting bullied by their single-celled neighbors. Except, that rotifer is moving. It’s alive, twisting and turning inside of the...
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Putting Coral Under the Microscope
James, our master of microscopes, recently received a package from a coral farm in Germany. We’ve explored some of the microscopic creatures and bristle worms that were living and thriving in those packages in previous videos. But today...
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How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
We’re going to see a type of motion over and over again because it’s all over the microcosmos, found in and around many different types of organisms. And this kind of random motion may seem almost too trivial to discuss, but this motion...
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Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
This is kentrophoros, a ciliate that James—our master of microscopes—had been searching for, receiving samples from all over the world in the hopes of finding it gliding around. When you first look at it, it doesn’t seem particularly...
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This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
If you’ve been following James, our master of microscopes, on some of his other platforms, then you know what’s coming. You know that James has published his first academic paper, it's about this extraordinarily rare ciliate that you see...
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What Even Is A Species?
If you know about the species Lacrymaria olor, then you know what you’re getting when you see it under a microscope. It has a distinct shape, a distinct way of life—the combination of its own genetics and its surrounding environment.
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The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
If you’ve ever wondered what it might take to upset a microscopist, just ask James—our master of microscopes—his feelings about tardigrade legs. Yes, tardigrade legs. Those chunky, wiggly limbs that move their owner through meals of moss...
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A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
Sometimes our journey through the microcosmos feels like an expedition, a voyage filled with deep dives into the masses of organisms basking under the glow of our microscope. So what does it mean when you don’t find anything. When you...
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Mushroom Identification Terminology
We now know a bit about mushrooms, their structure, and their life cycle, but let's learn a bit more terminology before we dive head first into the world of mushrooms. We know about stipes and caps and partial veils and spores, but...
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Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
James, our master of microscopes, is not a farmer. He is, to put it simply, fascinated by microbes. And that may lead him to strange places and cause him to grow tanks full of weird things. But he is not a farmer.
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A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
The theme of today's episode is pretty simple: things we never thought we’d be showing you, but here we are.
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There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
When you’re in the business of hunting for microbes, sometimes you have to send some weird emails. That’s why James, our master of microscopes, sat down one day to send his own strange request to the people at Coralaxy, a coral farm in...
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Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
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CompTIA A+ Certification 220-1001: The Total Course - Configuring USB
Most USB devices work well fresh out of the box. For those that don’t, it’s important to have a proper USB configuration process to make sure a USB device and all of its features work properly. This clip is from the chapter "Essential...
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How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
For an activity that mostly involves sitting and staring, microscopy is a surprisingly high stakes task. On the other side of the lens are drops full of potential, a multitude of worlds to unravel and examine. But they’re also fragile...
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The Discovery of Cells
In this section, I talk about the history of the cell theory, what the cell theory is, the 2 types of microscopes and the 2 basic cell types.
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Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
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!
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Tumbling Down Invisible Highways
When we look at bacteria under a microscope, they appear to be tumbling around chaotically, but over the centuries we realized that their pathways have a purpose.
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Our Paramecia Are Infected
We recently discovered some Holospora infecting one of our Paramecium samples. How does that happen? How does the Holospora get in there? And how are they so successful at infecting?
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Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight
There are only a few groups of bacteria that do this kind of gliding, but they’re found across a plethora of environments, including ponds, soil, and, surprise, in our own mouths.
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The Microcosmos of the 1800s: The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
The Microcosmos of the 1800s The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg