One of the proudest moments of my life! Thank you everyone who supported and pledged to the campaign! I cannot believe there is a chance that people will be using a microscope at home with my logo on it and watching cute little water bears waddle. 😭 -James
Are you kidding? I did 3 years of Biology but I had to dump it because I had to jump into the family bussiness. But I did love looking through microscopes and your channel brought that to me in the best way possible! Since I started watching your channel I've been wanting to get a microscope but there's a lot to choose from. Your kickstarter solved all my problems and additionally I'm supporting you doing what you love the most! Keep it up James!
So so well deserved! And what a gift for you and the team to give to the (lets be honest *intense*) fans of the channel - helping us get to play, too :)) As a photographer, I'm fascinated to dive into the world of tiny lenses - and my fellow microcosmos-mesmerized kiddo, well, okay he can come along too :D (okay okay - it's a birthday present for him but....I can't promise I won't elbow him out of the way on occasion to goggle through the objective :D)
Just pledged. The microscope looks to be a darn good one it's loaded with features that I couldn't get at that price otherwise. My previous attempts at micro-photography will a cheaper microscope were only so so. Can't wait till June till then here's some vorticella waving bye bye photos.app.goo.gl/mHYF4vU3wp3MV5PR7
One of my kids just got his microscope. He spends lots of hours exploring microorganisms found all over our plants. He complete forgot about his tablet and video games. This videos are fuel to his aspirations as a future biologist. Thanks for sharing.
*How did Multicellularity evolve? Through The Cell stage of course! Naturally then it's the creature phase, the tribal stage, the civilization stage, and finally the space stage. Many a microbe is stuck in the cell phase. As for me, well you can say that I've reached a point of microcellular sentience that would make even the Grox jealous!*
I feel the first into song they put out that had a sort of electrical bop to it really showed that what we were looking at were really the base units of life. Piece by piece it went with a melody and set of beats I can not easily explain but the feeling of the element within the microcosmos itself.
Watching this video has made me realize just how incredible multicellular life is. It is easy to look at a volvox as a large group of cooperative cells. However, when you look at a plant or an animal, you don't see them as a group of trillions of cells working together, even though that is exactly what they are. It is shocking to think that we are each made up of an unimaginable amount of tiny living things all working together to make "you" exist.
@@chewbacca9965 You're thinking of a different algorithm. It'll be sad day when the entire word algorithm becomes synonymous with one specific website's content selection process.
Yes! I've loved this channel since it started but have been hoping for a video like this for ages. I did my PhD in evolutionary biology on the volvocine green algae!
I will definitely be donating to this kickstarter as soon as possible. If I'm able to get anything for myself in all of 2021, I want, no I _need_ it to be this microscope. And if I could help others get one too, that would be icing on the cake. I'm so glad you guys are doing this. It's such a phenomenal idea! And I will always support anything that helps people experience the joy of discovery and science. Thank you guys for being so amazing!
man, this is such a small thing, but i really have to appreciate how these videos always have captions when they come out. i have auditory processing issues and so trying to understand everything without captions would be terrible... its just really nice knowing that some of the channels i watch are contentious of people in situations like mine
Great work Hank! I'm late to the series, but kudos on your ad placement in this one. I was completely invested in seeing that little guy escape the tardigrade's jaws. I didn't dare click away until it happened, and then it did. So satisfying!
I love the kickstarter project and have donated to it! I will donate more if the universal allows for it before January 20th. But I will share this project and channel with as many people as I can, because this channel has brought me so much joy. I used to have had a microscope with a camera on top that connected to my laptop. It brought me hours of joy looking through puddle water with my daughter. If it can be done with a phone on the top: Hell-to-the-myeah. And It was more affordable to support you all in Patreon than I expected. Count me in not just for the ride, but chipping in for the gas money. Thank you, for all the hard work :)!
Just pledged ! I've never done anything like that before, but it's a cool idea and I believe in what you guys are doing Love the channel, and keep up the great work !
Me too! This is my first kick starter campaign I have back but I am throwing caution to the wind!!! I have wanted a microscope like this for so long! As I heard the discretion I nearly fell out of my chair leeping to get my wallet!😂
What a great video - fabulous music as ALWAYS - and OH MY GOSH I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS KICKSTARTER! You have truly journeyed, and I'm so very glad to be along for the ride!!
Awesome stuff. Thanks for uploading! Thinking about this notion of division of tasks is essential to understand the logic of the evolution of life. Division of tasks is essential for anything to become more complex, including the society in which we live.
Every time I watch this to learn something, I feel so sleepyyy. The voiceover and music are just soo calming. I really appreciate the amazing work though.
I backed you guys as soon as I could. I believe in you guys! And everyone that's a Scientist. If shit goes south I know you're gonna do the right thing. Good luck with the kickstarter!
I watch all of these one time seriously, and then I use the entire playlist for sleeping. I wish there was more pre-sleep scientific content out there. Thank you so much for giving me my safe place. :)
Hope they're gonna use this as a supplemental little video at the university where I had a course on plant reproduction and a course about lower plants and fungi. You use exactly the examples they use because they're excellent at explaining the principle of being multicellular vs being a colony.
I would love to see an organism on the very edge of colony and multicellular. One where the division is almost complete, but the features remain that would allow both types to be an individual cell, albeit a cell with essentially no longterm survival capacity.
Wow the editing in of this channel has been going crazy I sort this channel at the start of quarantine and now it's completely crazy well done you guys!!! All love💕💕💕
Jumping into this with both feet and no clue what I'm doing or how to make the most of it. I want to be able to teach and inspire a love of science in my son as he grows up (he's only 6 months old now) and it seemed a better use of 500 dollars then buying another gaming console to suck up my time.
You know... I’ve never given to a Kickstarter campaign. I’m not sure why? I have never felt the want to, and I’ve always been a tad weary of them. This changes now. I stumbled blindly across your videos, and I have been very pleased for the past year. It opened a door in biology that I didn’t know I loved. Now I’m planning to further study the microbial world, thanks to your channel. Have my money. Absolutely. And make a damn good product that inspires young people to get into science. Fuck yea. This is awesome!
Possibly the best episode yet, or of the whole series. At least for me. Everything was something I didn't know, and it sparked deep thoughts I'd had before, and enriched them.
I think this channel is great and kinda watch just to chill too. All for some change of music now and then but I hope we can keep some chill music vibes too. Just some constructive criticism. I personally enjoy the soundtrack for Halt and Catch Fire if you are looking for any inspiration on some more 80s techno sounds. Great work so far Andrew Huang!
I wish my high school freshman self had this video. It would have saved me so much confusion and heartache. In the most sincere way possible, thank you for making this.
Oh man, this is one of those things where I wish I had money to throw around because I'd be getting the top tier in a heartbeat. I am so glad I found this channel, I could legitimately watch this stuff for hours.
I don't normally go in for Kickstarters, but your channel is something special. I'm in. I'm gonna get a microscope and take pictures of some tiny things.
Thank you to your team for always producing informative, inspiring and beautiful videos!!! I have a question on what you said from 8:40 to 8:55 about evolution and survival. As multicellular consumers like the Tardigrade appear way later than the Pandorinia, I think the argument that multicellularity arising from the prevention of predation could be challenged! I'm no expert in evolution. Perhaps someone here can explain?
You should add the microscope campaign to the title of the video. It tends to bring more attention to the video. Also, I love your work. I wish you all the best and all success possible!
Please do more tardigrade close ups like at 8:21. Or really, just any animal of that size. It is so fascinating to see the individual cells inside of it move around and the extracellular fluid jiggling all about. Also, what are those structures that look like bones in the tardigrade's arm? I know they don't have bones, but it looks a hell of a lot like a bone. EDIT: Wait, are those actually the muscles? Still, I have so many more questions. Like, what is the big round nut looking thing in it's gullet? It can't be a brain/nerve cluster could it? That'd be way too big. Is it something like bird's gizzard maybe? And the big spherical cells in the body. What exactly are those? Why do they look green? Like, chlorophyll green?
I think there is an important distinction between evolution of multicellularity and the presence of conditions suitable for supporting multicellularity, The main factor oxygen concentrations seems to have limited complex aerobic multicellular organisms to a brief window in the Paleoproterozoic eon following the Great Oxygenation event and the associated glaciation where oxygen levels rose above 5% and the late Neoproterozoic eon where oxygen levels again rose above 5% concentration.
Fascinating. I would also like a presentation covering the evolution of the embryo. That seems to have happened only 3 times. So far I have been unable find any hypothesis involving any evolutionary significance.
I find it at least equally likely that cells started to evolve in huge, mostly uniform blobs because it was an evolutionary advantage for them to be that close to each other, and the natural selection started to handle them as a single multicellular entity, instead of handling them one by one, separately, because their chance for survival was not up to the survival of the involved separate cells as much as up to their combined chance, that increased exponentially after they started specializing, and losing their former capability to live separately.
So if this is how they evolved, how did sessile multi-cellular plants evolve? This explains them if the organism feeds on other organisms... but what if they don't? Why then did multicellularity evolve in plants?
What blows my mind is how a human individual is able to think, reason and have an unified experience of the world, when we are actually made of millions of individual cells that are living things on their own right
Mind blowing. Thank you so much. My only complaint is you never said what the Latin root of Volvox is (volvo is "I roll"). I'm afraid money is a bit tight right now, but you've inspired me to get a cell phone adaptor for the microscope I got in grad school.
This development of Volvocine descendents reminds me of Edwin A Abbott's _Flatland, A Romance in Many Dimensions._ I wonder if he himself saw this kind of thing in his own pond water.
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One of the proudest moments of my life! Thank you everyone who supported and pledged to the campaign!
I cannot believe there is a chance that people will be using a microscope at home with my logo on it and watching cute little water bears waddle. 😭
-James
Are you kidding? I did 3 years of Biology but I had to dump it because I had to jump into the family bussiness. But I did love looking through microscopes and your channel brought that to me in the best way possible! Since I started watching your channel I've been wanting to get a microscope but there's a lot to choose from. Your kickstarter solved all my problems and additionally I'm supporting you doing what you love the most! Keep it up James!
Congratulations James!! 👏👏👏❤
Very well deserved
So so well deserved! And what a gift for you and the team to give to the (lets be honest *intense*) fans of the channel - helping us get to play, too :)) As a photographer, I'm fascinated to dive into the world of tiny lenses - and my fellow microcosmos-mesmerized kiddo, well, okay he can come along too :D (okay okay - it's a birthday present for him but....I can't promise I won't elbow him out of the way on occasion to goggle through the objective :D)
Just pledged. The microscope looks to be a darn good one it's loaded with features that I couldn't get at that price otherwise. My previous attempts at micro-photography will a cheaper microscope were only so so. Can't wait till June till then here's some vorticella waving bye bye
photos.app.goo.gl/mHYF4vU3wp3MV5PR7
That Tardigrade is trying so hard to eat that Pandorina for like two and a half minutes 😂
I was laughing so much and its 2 am and im trying to keep quiet!
At least it got kisses.
Now I want a 2 1/2 minute video called "This Pandorina is NOT about to die."
What a mood
I love how intensively was the pandorina shaking after it escaped
I don't see enough love for the awesome music on this channel, props to Andrew Huang!
Oh, I thought the intro was by Trent Reznor.
If you like this song you might like the album Zweitonegoismus by C418. The same artist who did Minecraft.
Ha, will do. Thank you
It's made by him? I know that guy! I think he has a yt channel
I dont care who you are, this is cool on sooooo many levels. The narrator reminds me of an excited Joe Pera.
My screen freezes and chrome stops responding.
Hank: "Your screen is currently filling up with clouds of an algae..."
you just got algaed :trollface-emoji:
@@itzmedb8290 , welp, it doesn't work like discord 🙃
you got 10 min to live
One of my kids just got his microscope. He spends lots of hours exploring microorganisms found all over our plants. He complete forgot about his tablet and video games. This videos are fuel to his aspirations as a future biologist. Thanks for sharing.
What kind?
*How did Multicellularity evolve? Through The Cell stage of course! Naturally then it's the creature phase, the tribal stage, the civilization stage, and finally the space stage. Many a microbe is stuck in the cell phase. As for me, well you can say that I've reached a point of microcellular sentience that would make even the Grox jealous!*
Achievement Unlocked: Reach the Space Stage without evolving
It's always a nice day when Journey to the Microcosmos uploads and to see the Rotifer chime in the comments. Bless you.
It's nice to know there are still some of us out there. Spore players aren't extremely common
@@Daniel-xr7fc Personally don't really like anything after the creature stage, so I stopped playing. :c
you forgot the final, Nuclear warfare, stage :>
The opening music track makes it sound like serious microbial mayhem is about to happen.
i thought i had cyberpunk 2077 open :o
@@Stue-e I did have Cyberpunk open lol
I feel the first into song they put out that had a sort of electrical bop to it really showed that what we were looking at were really the base units of life. Piece by piece it went with a melody and set of beats I can not easily explain but the feeling of the element within the microcosmos itself.
I was grooving to Andrew’s bit, sure.
I felt really unnerved to be honest
much more recently”, only 200m years ago >< gotta love science man
İ expected somethn like 500k years
Watching this video has made me realize just how incredible multicellular life is. It is easy to look at a volvox as a large group of cooperative cells. However, when you look at a plant or an animal, you don't see them as a group of trillions of cells working together, even though that is exactly what they are. It is shocking to think that we are each made up of an unimaginable amount of tiny living things all working together to make "you" exist.
This show always opens in such a soft way. This time, the soundtrack made me feel like we’re about to jump out of an airplane.
Tardigrade: You're a big algae
Volvox: For you
“So what’s the next step in your masterplan?”
“Crashing this slide.....with no survivors!”
If I took that screen off would you die?
It would be extremely painful.
You’re a big guy.
I think you might change my life with this kickstarter.
I would need a proper microscope to use them effectively.
Thanks for the DIC pics, as always
@Mostly Insects en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_interference_contrast_microscopy
Dic pick 😈
YT's compression algorithm disliked this video
Fuck the algorithm
@@chewbacca9965 You're thinking of a different algorithm. It'll be sad day when the entire word algorithm becomes synonymous with one specific website's content selection process.
@@ObjectsInMotion k
put it on 4k
Yes! I've loved this channel since it started but have been hoping for a video like this for ages. I did my PhD in evolutionary biology on the volvocine green algae!
Wow, that close up of the tardigrade eating algae is really amazing. Good job, James!
Check out a longer video on his channel 😉
ruclips.net/video/mhUlze3gqKA/видео.html
2:11
“Eudorina”
"No. I'm the rina"
Ha, I have never been quite this early. If you see this, I appreciate the work you guys do! It truly pays off.
One of the first things I noticed was the music! Very happy to support the Kickstarter, can’t wait for production!!
I will definitely be donating to this kickstarter as soon as possible. If I'm able to get anything for myself in all of 2021, I want, no I _need_ it to be this microscope. And if I could help others get one too, that would be icing on the cake. I'm so glad you guys are doing this. It's such a phenomenal idea! And I will always support anything that helps people experience the joy of discovery and science. Thank you guys for being so amazing!
man, this is such a small thing, but i really have to appreciate how these videos always have captions when they come out. i have auditory processing issues and so trying to understand everything without captions would be terrible... its just really nice knowing that some of the channels i watch are contentious of people in situations like mine
2:03 That should have been "The algae's always greener on the other *slide*."
Great work Hank! I'm late to the series, but kudos on your ad placement in this one. I was completely invested in seeing that little guy escape the tardigrade's jaws. I didn't dare click away until it happened, and then it did. So satisfying!
The score for this video was unreal You guys are doing amazing work.
I love the kickstarter project and have donated to it! I will donate more if the universal allows for it before January 20th. But I will share this project and channel with as many people as I can,
because this channel has brought me so much joy.
I used to have had a microscope with a camera on top that connected to my laptop.
It brought me hours of joy looking through puddle water with my daughter.
If it can be done with a phone on the top: Hell-to-the-myeah.
And It was more affordable to support you all in Patreon than I expected.
Count me in not just for the ride, but chipping in for the gas money.
Thank you, for all the hard work :)!
Just pledged ! I've never done anything like that before, but it's a cool idea and I believe in what you guys are doing
Love the channel, and keep up the great work !
Me too! This is my first kick starter campaign I have back but I am throwing caution to the wind!!! I have wanted a microscope like this for so long! As I heard the discretion I nearly fell out of my chair leeping to get my wallet!😂
What a great video - fabulous music as ALWAYS - and OH MY GOSH I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS KICKSTARTER!
You have truly journeyed, and I'm so very glad to be along for the ride!!
Awesome stuff. Thanks for uploading! Thinking about this notion of division of tasks is essential to understand the logic of the evolution of life.
Division of tasks is essential for anything to become more complex, including the society in which we live.
How they evolved:
Cell 1: I'm tired of moving around!
Cell 2: !'m tired of eating all the time!
Both: Let's team up!
Just kidding.
That music is quite a departure from the norm... Kinda diggin' it.
Andrew Huang kills it pretty much whatever he does
And as the video goes on it dissolves into a calmer mood. Really cool.
I read that as "multi-celery"
😂🤣😂🤣
Well you cant just eat one
Every time I watch this to learn something, I feel so sleepyyy. The voiceover and music are just soo calming.
I really appreciate the amazing work though.
I backed you guys as soon as I could. I believe in you guys! And everyone that's a Scientist. If shit goes south I know you're gonna do the right thing. Good luck with the kickstarter!
I watch all of these one time seriously, and then I use the entire playlist for sleeping. I wish there was more pre-sleep scientific content out there. Thank you so much for giving me my safe place. :)
Hope they're gonna use this as a supplemental little video at the university where I had a course on plant reproduction and a course about lower plants and fungi. You use exactly the examples they use because they're excellent at explaining the principle of being multicellular vs being a colony.
I would love to see an organism on the very edge of colony and multicellular. One where the division is almost complete, but the features remain that would allow both types to be an individual cell, albeit a cell with essentially no longterm survival capacity.
Wow the editing in of this channel has been going crazy I sort this channel at the start of quarantine and now it's completely crazy well done you guys!!! All love💕💕💕
5:00 what's with the one algae blob rotating? Is it actively doing that or is it just freespinning?
Jumping into this with both feet and no clue what I'm doing or how to make the most of it. I want to be able to teach and inspire a love of science in my son as he grows up (he's only 6 months old now) and it seemed a better use of 500 dollars then buying another gaming console to suck up my time.
You know... I’ve never given to a Kickstarter campaign. I’m not sure why? I have never felt the want to, and I’ve always been a tad weary of them.
This changes now. I stumbled blindly across your videos, and I have been very pleased for the past year. It opened a door in biology that I didn’t know I loved. Now I’m planning to further study the microbial world, thanks to your channel.
Have my money. Absolutely. And make a damn good product that inspires young people to get into science.
Fuck yea. This is awesome!
The music was really fitting this time. Thanks for the episode
I always wonder what people are thinking when they thumbs down great videos like these
love what you guys do
Possibly the best episode yet, or of the whole series.
At least for me. Everything was something I didn't know, and it sparked deep thoughts I'd had before, and enriched them.
Definitely a great video, but my favorite is the one called What is dead? Or something like that
I think this channel is great and kinda watch just to chill too. All for some change of music now and then but I hope we can keep some chill music vibes too. Just some constructive criticism. I personally enjoy the soundtrack for Halt and Catch Fire if you are looking for any inspiration on some more 80s techno sounds. Great work so far Andrew Huang!
I purely love you, guys! You make me happy, and I appreciate your efforts! 🙏
That microscope is such a good idea! I'm surprised it doesn't exist yet. I hope you guys are able to produce them
I wish my high school freshman self had this video. It would have saved me so much confusion and heartache.
In the most sincere way possible, thank you for making this.
2:17 looks like Volvox-kun enjoyed online class more than i certainly do
Oh man, this is one of those things where I wish I had money to throw around because I'd be getting the top tier in a heartbeat. I am so glad I found this channel, I could legitimately watch this stuff for hours.
I don't normally go in for Kickstarters, but your channel is something special. I'm in. I'm gonna get a microscope and take pictures of some tiny things.
Thank you to your team for always producing informative, inspiring and beautiful videos!!! I have a question on what you said from 8:40 to 8:55 about evolution and survival. As multicellular consumers like the Tardigrade appear way later than the Pandorinia, I think the argument that multicellularity arising from the prevention of predation could be challenged!
I'm no expert in evolution. Perhaps someone here can explain?
Backed a microscope for me and my niece, she's going to absolutely love this. We spend a lot of time outside poking things with sticks for fun.
You should add the microscope campaign to the title of the video. It tends to bring more attention to the video.
Also, I love your work. I wish you all the best and all success possible!
Holy cow I just found this channel trying to get ahead for my microbiology class this coming semester. Crazy cool content, wow. Subbed
That tardigrade gave me a good laugh. It would not give up! You could almost hear it grumbling "Get in my belly!".🤣
Legend says that the tardigrade is still trying to eat the pandemonium
I’m loving the new music. I like the old music too.
Music on this channel is always sooo good!
I'm going through such a weird time right now. Thank you so much for this channel! It's relaxing, educational and ultimately sanity preserving. < 3
Love when a video comes out from you guys. As always, very interesting and cool.
that tardigrade just kept trying...
Thank you for taking us on these many journies! I so appreciate the sharing of modern science especially on RUclips ❤️
Whoa, the music was really great in this episode, and kickstarting a microscope project is a fantastic idea!
this imagery is incredible! love this channel
Please do more tardigrade close ups like at 8:21. Or really, just any animal of that size. It is so fascinating to see the individual cells inside of it move around and the extracellular fluid jiggling all about. Also, what are those structures that look like bones in the tardigrade's arm? I know they don't have bones, but it looks a hell of a lot like a bone.
EDIT: Wait, are those actually the muscles? Still, I have so many more questions. Like, what is the big round nut looking thing in it's gullet? It can't be a brain/nerve cluster could it? That'd be way too big. Is it something like bird's gizzard maybe? And the big spherical cells in the body. What exactly are those? Why do they look green? Like, chlorophyll green?
Me, trying to Fall asleep:
The Soundtrack: how about no
i really enjoyed this video, good stuff. Keep it coming.
One of your best videos, bar none.
That opening music though...
I thought I clicked the wrong video because this channel's music is usually very chill 😂
That intro song really made me feel like I was about to fight a boss in Portal.
I think there is an important distinction between evolution of multicellularity and the presence of conditions suitable for supporting multicellularity, The main factor oxygen concentrations seems to have limited complex aerobic multicellular organisms to a brief window in the Paleoproterozoic eon following the Great Oxygenation event and the associated glaciation where oxygen levels rose above 5% and the late Neoproterozoic eon where oxygen levels again rose above 5% concentration.
that tardigrade was hell bent on eating pandorina
That Kickstarter is exactly the content I came here for. 👍
One of the best ways to start the day is to make breakfast, sit down, and see there’s a new microcosmos video.
Can we buy the microscope and guide in the future also?
I'm liking your comment so it can get top and your question can be answered.
Godspeed.
This channel is perfect
God i love volvox, it's was one of the best days in the lab, during my second semester botany course, watching volvox rolling around.
Fascinating. I would also like a presentation covering the evolution of the embryo. That seems to have happened only 3 times. So far I have been unable find any hypothesis involving any evolutionary significance.
So is that Tardigrade gonna let that Pandorina go or what
Whether you want 3D images to become 2D or you want to zoom in a ton on normally invisible content, Hank Green has you covered.
You got to give the tardigrade credit. He might not have been able to eat that Pandorina, but it didn't stop him from trying.
I love this channel! Keep up the good work.
What is that little guy swimming through on the bottom left corner around 7:31?
That’s Bob
I won't be buying a microscope any time soon, but here I'm happy to help someone else access one.
The big size might be hard on tardigrade, but it could be a boon for humans to harvest them if the protein or lipid content in volvox is high enough.
One of the best episodes!
What is that bug looking thing that you can see a few times in the video? For example on 1:30
I find it at least equally likely that cells started to evolve in huge, mostly uniform blobs because it was an evolutionary advantage for them to be that close to each other, and the natural selection started to handle them as a single multicellular entity, instead of handling them one by one, separately, because their chance for survival was not up to the survival of the involved separate cells as much as up to their combined chance, that increased exponentially after they started specializing, and losing their former capability to live separately.
So if this is how they evolved, how did sessile multi-cellular plants evolve? This explains them if the organism feeds on other organisms... but what if they don't? Why then did multicellularity evolve in plants?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS TOO COOL! The quality is insane!
Specialization is an important feature of multicellular organisms. However, how do the cells know what to specialize into?
This show is gr8.. I dont care who u r, its cool on sooo many levels. The narrator reminds me of an excited Joe Pera.
Thanks for making this easy to understand.
What blows my mind is how a human individual is able to think, reason and have an unified experience of the world, when we are actually made of millions of individual cells that are living things on their own right
Mind blowing. Thank you so much. My only complaint is you never said what the Latin root of Volvox is (volvo is "I roll"). I'm afraid money is a bit tight right now, but you've inspired me to get a cell phone adaptor for the microscope I got in grad school.
This development of Volvocine descendents reminds me of Edwin A Abbott's _Flatland, A Romance in Many Dimensions._ I wonder if he himself saw this kind of thing in his own pond water.
This is such a good type of microscope for schools, this way students can get way more engaged by taking pictures on their own phones.
now I want to know how the Tardigrade eating mechanism works
7:39 That spinning makes me so dizzy
Can you do an episode using nothing but the kick starter variants?