How We Find Our Microbes

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  • Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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Комментарии • 259

  • @tameronica
    @tameronica 4 года назад +363

    Microbes: *just chillin'*
    Microbiologist: *_s c o o p_*

    • @agentbum
      @agentbum 4 года назад +2

      Reminds me of middle school

  • @JamsGerms
    @JamsGerms 4 года назад +168

    I got so surprised when I saw my back on the thumbnail! 😂

    • @yasyasmarangoz3577
      @yasyasmarangoz3577 4 года назад +1

      wait what?

    • @jeffreyjadav9493
      @jeffreyjadav9493 4 года назад +1

      I just got access to a microscope. Been looking for microbial hotspots. I am in the sample overload phase at the moment.
      Thanks for the helpful inspiration!

    • @Bandajify
      @Bandajify 4 года назад

      @@yasyasmarangoz3577 Jam has been living in Poland, the comment was in Polish

    • @yasyasmarangoz3577
      @yasyasmarangoz3577 4 года назад

      @@Bandajify No, I don't mean that :D
      If I did so, I would answer him, but I am wondering about the guy in the thumbnail.

    • @IdiotWithEducation
      @IdiotWithEducation 4 года назад

      Hey! I love you're work!

  • @ArielWaldman
    @ArielWaldman 4 года назад +76

    Hey microbe lovers! Thanks so much for tuning in to this episode to see some of my footage from Antarctica. ❤️

  • @philtkaswahl2124
    @philtkaswahl2124 4 года назад +153

    "James, Master of Microscopes"
    [bows] Your Lensness.

  • @carissstewart3211
    @carissstewart3211 4 года назад +310

    Can't go out to eat.
    Can't go to the movies.
    Can't even arrange a playdate for my kids.
    No rule against going to the woods and collecting samples of water and dirt.

    • @wyattroncin941
      @wyattroncin941 4 года назад +38

      well, if you're going to catch a bug it might as well be fun to look at

    • @melonlord1414
      @melonlord1414 4 года назад +2

      As long as you creep a distance to everyone else, this should be ok

    • @NewMessage
      @NewMessage 4 года назад +7

      My kid, and her new microscope, agrees totally.

    • @circadiana
      @circadiana 4 года назад +1

      update, now there are

  • @Sneemaster
    @Sneemaster 4 года назад +64

    A wild Rotifer appears. "Paramecium, I choose you!" *battle music starts*

  • @shark180
    @shark180 4 года назад +100

    Micro: Remember when pokemon go came out?
    Me: Oh shit! I need to do my daily in Pokemon go!
    Also my father in the 1950's was obsessed with photography. He took a water sample from a neighbor's birdbath and was able to take a picture of a Rotifer using a microscope and a home made camera setup. I don't know if the photo still exists, but he is very proud of it.

    • @frogz
      @frogz 4 года назад +2

      you're telling me, im STILL on day 3 for visit a stop 7 days in a row... x.x

    • @cherrycotapie
      @cherrycotapie Год назад

      im proud of him too. haha xD

  • @rotifer
    @rotifer 4 года назад +178

    *They shown me before the water bears, my life is complete. 💚*

    • @spiercephotography
      @spiercephotography 4 года назад +12

      Aww Rotifer, I missed you and haven't seen you around lately! Glad you're doing well

    • @rotifer
      @rotifer 4 года назад +10

      @@spiercephotography ​ @Diogenes TheDog 💚

    • @aboveanonymous4810
      @aboveanonymous4810 4 года назад +6

      I haven't seen you in months.

    • @outgittymushroom8666
      @outgittymushroom8666 4 года назад +6

      Yayy my cool germ show is back on

    • @rqzzlldqzzls
      @rqzzlldqzzls 4 года назад +3

      team waterbear

  • @jacklandismusic
    @jacklandismusic 4 года назад +3

    I’ve only just found this channel today, but I love it a whole lot. This is the calmest I’ve ever heard either of the Green brothers speaking, and it’s just absolutely lovely. Also, gets me real excited about nature, for some reason. Like, specifically the microbial aspect of this makes me excited to go on the hike I’m planning tomorrow. I don’t have a microscope and I’m not going to hunt for microbes, but it’s just cool that life is always around. It gets me real excited to go out into the natural world with the knowledge that, whether or not I can see anything moving, something somewhere definitely is.

  • @williamhardway6436
    @williamhardway6436 4 года назад +12

    This is so chill. I put these videos on when I'm in a foul mood, among other times. Thanks, fellas

  • @jakenry6496
    @jakenry6496 4 года назад +4

    Just want to give a thanks to James on this video. Bringing all of us the wonders of the world unseen. Thank you to the entire team as well. You are all wonderful individuals coming together to make this world a little more known.

  • @8Jory
    @8Jory 4 года назад +2

    Not complaining, it's just that chill Hank still sends me for a loop. I've got years of excited scishow Hank to overwrite.

  • @caboose202ful
    @caboose202ful 4 года назад +28

    "Because different magnification levels are better for observing different organisms, we will always have the magnification on screen" smh no 1x in the corner

  • @ArticBlueFox96
    @ArticBlueFox96 4 года назад +3

    I wonder if Journey to the Microcosmos will ever do some episodes on microbes that we would expect to see in the human gut microbiomes or skin microbiomes or any human microbiome, or maybe microbes we would see in fermenting food.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 года назад +3

    Microcosmos: Doing it's part to repair the reputation of the very small during this difficult time.

  • @BrianFedirko
    @BrianFedirko 3 года назад +3

    a word of laboratory advice, is that distilled water will "leach" or "destroy" the chemistry/minerals from the system, thus depleting them from the sample. sometimes it's wise to use water of the same "source" or "vicinity", and to pasteurize it.

  • @kevinconrad6156
    @kevinconrad6156 4 года назад +3

    The best find win I was working in a CC micro lab was the snails hatching from some water from a canal. Watching any animal hatch from an egg is awesome.

  • @spiercephotography
    @spiercephotography 4 года назад +1

    So many things to consider/look out for and ways to get creative in collecting. Thank you James for all your hard work on the collection and filming for us!

  • @todorovicmisha
    @todorovicmisha 4 года назад +2

    Just found ur channel, very soothing voice lol, love the informative nature of the video while still keeping it simple and easy to understand, keep it up can't wait for what's coming

  • @MrBlack0950
    @MrBlack0950 4 года назад +41

    I'm gonna save up for a digital microscope so I can look at the microbes in my mini pond jar. 300 dollars for the one I found online, hopefully its worth the wait. Until then, I can watch Journey to the Microcosmos videos.

  • @violet_broregarde
    @violet_broregarde 4 года назад +1

    I love the landscape shots. It's cool seeing your cinematography on macro scales too :D

  • @whimsy5623
    @whimsy5623 4 года назад +39

    I get mine from Walmart

  • @aSinisterKiid
    @aSinisterKiid 4 года назад

    Thanks for finally answering this!!!! I've asked a few times and I dunno if you ever saw it, but thank you for informing us where you get the samples. This is a lot more helpful in understanding where they are coming from now.

  • @eldritch-nerd
    @eldritch-nerd Год назад

    This channel is amazing! I always knew microbes were everywhere, but for some reason I told myself I needed some super lab equipment to see anything cool. Now I'm looking at every body of water under my microscope!

  • @outdoorsy01
    @outdoorsy01 4 года назад +2

    A year ago I sealed water from my pond in a small 2 inch water tight container and kept it in direct sunlight by the window. It hasn't been touched and the ever changing colours and dots is amazing to watch over time. Now its Spring a green slime has started with clear gel blobs here and there and they are themselves now changing and forming one blob and little white specs have appeared completly static but growing in number. I'm going to leave it unnoticed through the summer. Would you like the sample sometime in Autumn?

  • @willemvandebeek
    @willemvandebeek 4 года назад +6

    6:06 instead of distilled water, you might want to use a 0.15 molar saline solution instead...
    Distilled water might explode some of the microbes through osmosis... :(

  • @LEDewey_MD
    @LEDewey_MD 4 года назад

    SO cool! Great video!

  • @MicrobialLuke
    @MicrobialLuke 4 года назад +13

    Awesome video! I want a plankton net now. I try to make content that is just as high quality yours, but I can’t say my voice is as calming.

    • @paratiglobal8848
      @paratiglobal8848 4 года назад +1

      Microbial Luke lol

    • @ivyboy7196
      @ivyboy7196 4 года назад +1

      Microbial Luke It is very calming.

    • @MicrobialLuke
      @MicrobialLuke 4 года назад +1

      ivy boy right!

    • @kevinconrad6156
      @kevinconrad6156 4 года назад +2

      @@MicrobialLuke Everyone thinks their voice sounds like shit, just get over it and start speaking.

    • @MicrobialLuke
      @MicrobialLuke 4 года назад +2

      Kevin Conrad True

  • @gigglysamentz2021
    @gigglysamentz2021 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for giving us tips!!

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk 4 года назад

    Fascinating!

  • @Zinozx
    @Zinozx 4 года назад

    thank you for showing us this part of our world

  • @paulex12
    @paulex12 4 года назад +1

    Video request: the rotifers living in the leaf pouches of Frullania liverworts. Frullania is easy to find on deciduous trees' bark in the northern hemisphere and they usually have cute rotifers living in their leaf lobes.

  • @felpshehe
    @felpshehe 4 года назад

    Thank you for this

  • @davedavis7538
    @davedavis7538 3 года назад

    I use a turkey baster, quite useful, good on thanksgiving too.

  • @Pixilmb12
    @Pixilmb12 8 месяцев назад

    Thx so much!

  • @francescom.1558
    @francescom.1558 4 года назад

    Man your voice is so relaxing...

  • @isaacramphal5189
    @isaacramphal5189 4 года назад +1

    Time to collect a sample from the pitch lake in Trinidad. Would be very big to see the organisms that live there

  • @belajarduniabiologi
    @belajarduniabiologi 4 года назад +1

    So amaze after look deep of life. Its adorable view that caught clearly and contras each other. What kind of microscope that its used?

  • @KombuchaBuzzed
    @KombuchaBuzzed 4 года назад +1

    That’s too bad you can’t press like 👍 more than once. I’m rewatching the series while you’re on break :)

  • @darkless60
    @darkless60 4 года назад +1

    Been waiting for a sample collection video ever since this series was launched

  • @MensinCorporeSano89
    @MensinCorporeSano89 4 года назад +1

    Hey! I love your work!!! Is it possible to have a look at compost or soil microbes?

  • @judychurley6623
    @judychurley6623 4 года назад +1

    When I was 15, I would take tap-water in a jar and put in some grass and leaves from the yard, and after a few days I always found a few kinds of microbe.

  • @JohnSmith-td7hd
    @JohnSmith-td7hd 4 года назад

    I just took a big nap. Thanks!

  • @AlmostEthical
    @AlmostEthical 4 года назад +1

    Was the tardigrade at around 1:20 failing to gain traction on the glass slide? That's how it looked to my untrained eye. It's little legs were pumping away, seemingly without it getting anywhere. Love the video. Thanks.

  • @shadycactus6146
    @shadycactus6146 4 года назад

    oh that last shot is super pretty

  • @GordonFreechmen
    @GordonFreechmen 4 года назад +2

    Gotta say, this channel has some of the best like/dislike ratios I've seen.

  • @pimpenders735
    @pimpenders735 4 года назад +1

    I jist discovord your channel and i am soooo happy you just posted this video

  • @dloomier4221
    @dloomier4221 4 года назад

    Very nice

  • @ImplodedAtom
    @ImplodedAtom 4 года назад +4

    Selfie sticks and scraping.
    Who said science couldn't be glamorous.

  • @Guydude777
    @Guydude777 4 года назад

    Little bitty microbes offering unlimited possibilities. Another fine video.

  • @Wtfinc
    @Wtfinc 4 года назад

    Inspiring...

  • @spaceaddict5484
    @spaceaddict5484 4 года назад +1

    Can you make a video about good beginner/intermidiate/advanced microscopes for people who are interested in buying them? And what to look for?

  • @Trackur
    @Trackur 4 года назад +1

    I liked this episode.... literally

  • @rocksedge2000
    @rocksedge2000 4 года назад +25

    0:14 She doesn't even spin the ball. What a noob!

  • @chris3arcadia
    @chris3arcadia 4 года назад

    Who else gets the same feeling from catching pokemon and finding a new critter under your scope? Go ultraball! I mean move the objective!

  • @Bass-guitarist
    @Bass-guitarist 3 года назад

    Your voice is like a modern day Sir David Attenborough! Totally endearing.

  • @hannekefranke297
    @hannekefranke297 Год назад

    Thank you very much for all these beautiful and interesting videos. I am 80 years old and have just rediscovered the microcosmos after so many years dealing with the macrocosmos. I am now thinking of buying a microscope, but know absolutely nothing about what I should look for. If you could recommend something I would be very grateful.

  • @Ed-zv8ot
    @Ed-zv8ot 4 года назад +1

    Hi there Hank. Have you guys thought about a segment on microbes that eat oil or the ones introduced to oil spills to aid in the clean up operations....just a thought for this polluted world we live in these days!

  • @gtd360
    @gtd360 4 года назад

    I think after James takes a sample like in the example that were he was over the leaves in clear water; take a sample and then disturbed the leaves and take a second sample from the same spot.
    If I just stuck stuck a net in the water in the macro world I would get much. Which is why we use kick nets to kick up what be up under rocks or attached to vegetation. I would guess that your diversity of even micro buddies would follow along the same lines. It would be interesting non the less.

  • @alyg153
    @alyg153 4 года назад +1

    Thanks man. I just recently subscribed to your channel. Ive wanted a microscope. What do you use?

  • @wonderwend1
    @wonderwend1 4 года назад +1

    James, you're a legend armed with a pipette

  • @sonicsphincter6
    @sonicsphincter6 4 года назад

    What is the song you use in the beginning? That bass knocks super hard and I love it.

  • @JakeBiddlecome
    @JakeBiddlecome 4 года назад

    I love how easy this is to do at home. I think every student should get a free microscope - at least a cheap van Leeuwenhoek microscope - to keep in their pocket. There's a guy in the UK, Chris Allen, who makes them for something like $80 American but you can make them yourself with a glass bead and cardboard. Lots of instructions online.

  • @verdatum
    @verdatum 4 года назад

    A very large part of me wanted to hear Hank read this entire script using a Jacques Cousteau impression. But it's still a fascinating video, so I can live without that particular dream of mine.

  • @Iisa1010
    @Iisa1010 4 года назад +2

    Am I to obsessed with Twitter/RUclips science that I knew that the Antarctic footage came from Ariel....

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 4 года назад

    Thank you🔬

  • @sent4dc
    @sent4dc 4 года назад

    Hey, now instead of Picachoo we're all catching another invisible friend -- corona virus. Yay!

  • @adnad8458
    @adnad8458 4 года назад +1

    It's always the last sentence that gets me!!!!!!!

  • @VR_Wizard
    @VR_Wizard 4 года назад

    That are some nice spots but I guess the community can come up with even more amazing places to find those little fellers.
    Lets share some ideas for interesting "Pokemon" hiding spots. I would be interested in:
    - Snow which is frozen rain water. What might be hiding in clouds? Probably not much.
    - Organisms in hot springs (this would mean your microscope setup should also be heated to the right temperature)
    - Organisms living in the gut of other organisms (cow, human, chicken, goat so many possibilities)
    - What is hiding in our drainage systems I would love to know.
    - Whats growing on my skin if I dont shower for a week?

  • @ghostcritic8508
    @ghostcritic8508 4 года назад

    FINALLY!!!!!!

  • @revenevan11
    @revenevan11 4 года назад

    I still play pokemon go at least whenever I'm on my college campus, but I think this video just showed me a way to get my fix while I'm at home in rural Ohio, miles from the nearest pokestop.

  • @wadegruber2119
    @wadegruber2119 4 года назад

    You guys could do some more macroscopic life. I used to mess around with my stereoscope, which doesn't need slides. I was looking in some driveway dirt and saw a weird roundworm that bent back and forth repeatedly. I would also look in gross poolwater for bugs. Recently I had it out and I saw scavenger mites (?) on dead bugs.

  • @marklewis4793
    @marklewis4793 4 года назад

    do you have to keep samples at the same temperature as their colection site?

  • @billabobyt
    @billabobyt 4 года назад

    Back in my day we had no Pokemans Go, we had to scoop up microbes in the local pond!

  • @thawhiteazn
    @thawhiteazn 4 года назад

    Do you guys have any recommendations for cheapish digital microscopes for someone interested in exploring the microcosmos? I have two young kids and think it would be fun to adventure around our area to find things to look at under the lens.

  • @siebevandekerkhove9863
    @siebevandekerkhove9863 4 года назад +7

    Dang James, certainly didn't see this episode comming!

  • @ShutItKyle
    @ShutItKyle 4 года назад

    Id love to see a video about skin microbiomes or gut flora

  • @mohebbi71
    @mohebbi71 4 года назад

    hey guys, what Andrew Huang tune do you use for your credits sequence? I cant get it outta my head

  • @MrDragonmaker
    @MrDragonmaker 4 года назад

    I want to see the orange slime up close. Lol

  • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
    @user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 года назад +2

    • I often wonder what you do with the samples after you're done with them. After seeing them up close like that, it feels wrong to imagine you just flush them down the drain, it's more appropriate to rinse them off into a pond or grass or something. :-|
    6:25 - Even the microscopic world has it's troll-y photobombers. 😀 (Jokes aside, it's actually fascinating that we just saw microorganisms existing in multiple planes of a very thing 3D world. 🤯 It's almost like looking through space.)

  • @timsullivan4566
    @timsullivan4566 4 года назад +6

    Q - What's a Rotifer?
    A - It's for an electric motor

  • @107kpl
    @107kpl 4 года назад

    What kind of microscope and camera do u use for video's

  • @sunstorm4436
    @sunstorm4436 4 года назад +1

    Is it harder checking out saltwater than freshwater? (ie technically?). You should do a video about the dif between freshwater vs saltwater protozoa... Both have amoebas, rotifers, paramecia, etc.?

  • @cladoceraarthropoda8407
    @cladoceraarthropoda8407 4 года назад +2

    *Here I was just chillin and munching on some bacterium. And all of a sudden some dude scoops me up in a tube, smh.*

  • @thecrakp0t
    @thecrakp0t 4 года назад +1

    Can anyone tell me the name of the song at the beginning? Description says music is by Andrew Huang but no track is actually listed.

  • @AaronShenghao
    @AaronShenghao 3 года назад

    The creater of Pokemon designed the game around his childhood memory of catching bugs and other animals in the country...
    It came full circle.

  • @rotifer
    @rotifer 4 года назад +60

    *In other words, I'm pretty much a rare Pokemon.*

    • @devinrex
      @devinrex 4 года назад

      @Gupie Dziecko Lol why do I always see you hating on rotifer? Everyone else just being chill and you always have some salty comment to make under all his posts

    • @devinrex
      @devinrex 4 года назад

      @Gupie Dziecko aight fair enough, you're right, sorry if i sounded rude, i was just genuinely curious lmao

    • @devinrex
      @devinrex 4 года назад

      @Gupie Dziecko k but its just text tho just relax lolol

    • @caioargolo288
      @caioargolo288 4 года назад +1

      Foi are a pikachu microbe.

  • @TealCheetah
    @TealCheetah 4 года назад +2

    Hank you're so soothing

    • @tswan137
      @tswan137 4 года назад

      This is Hank Green?? I knew it sounded just like him, just not used to hearing him so relaxed.

  • @bobthegoat7090
    @bobthegoat7090 4 года назад

    Is it possible for you to make a video on electron microscopes? I find them so fascinating. It is interesting how they use electrons as a "light" source because of the possibility of creating much shorter wavelengths than light could ever have and also how instead of lenses they use magnetic fields to bend the electrons exactly how a normal lens would bend light. So complicated, yet so simple. It would be really awesome if you could get to use a real electron microscope at some university.

  • @stargazer4574
    @stargazer4574 4 года назад

    I'm actually early. By the way, I just thought you just went to the pond to get samples!

  • @SuperLoops
    @SuperLoops 4 года назад +1

    after youve microsoped them do you put them back in the pond

  • @malcewicz
    @malcewicz 4 года назад

    Is your favourite pond located in one of the parks in warsaw?

    • @sknoy7792
      @sknoy7792 2 года назад

      Yes its the skaryszewski park

  • @nilsqvis4337
    @nilsqvis4337 4 года назад

    Microscopy is quite literally augmented reality though

  • @graphite2786
    @graphite2786 4 года назад +1

    Do you have a Post office box that I can send samples to?
    I'm in Australia and live near some ephemeral ponds. I only have a cheap microscope but I've identified rotifers, stentors , tardigrades, nemotodes and ciliates
    It would be fun to see what *your* crew would find in 1cc of damp sediment from Down under :-)

  • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842
    @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 4 года назад +1

    What microbes live in dry biomes? On the ground and on the plants?. Not in watery places.
    What microbes live in the air, that we breathe, but are essentially harmless?

  • @spiraldown2710
    @spiraldown2710 3 года назад

    And to think, the creator of Pokémon wanted to share his childhood love of bug/beetle collecting
    💚 full circle
    Edit: James- you are so precise! As a clumsy, this is awesome to witness

  • @themarblers4399
    @themarblers4399 4 года назад

    The main theme is called Amobea spits a sick beat

  • @eipiplusone3791
    @eipiplusone3791 4 года назад

    Would be awesome if you managed to show us some hetero tardigrades instead of the boring eutardigrades. But heterotardigrades are much more challenging to find, collect and preserve. They are also mostly marine.

  • @1414141x
    @1414141x 4 года назад +1

    I somehow find a strange solace in the fact that if humankind does manage to obliterate itself, the little guys you show us will just keep on truckin' without batting an eyelid ! (those that have eyes).

  • @earthknight60
    @earthknight60 4 года назад

    Looks like Norway Maples, beech, and some white-oak species in that pond. East of the Mississippi and north of the Arkansas Missouri line? (I'm assuming you're US based, otherwise that species mix fits for a lot of Europe as well). With the final beach scene, I'd guess New England.