Me too. This what I do like about TED. It has wide range of topics to suit everyone's interest. Some of these talks I don't agree with but I watch them anyways because I want everyone's opinion or view of things. But I really do enjoy these science talks.
Rebecca 'Spooky' Duran The problem with TED these days is, that they *don't* represent all opinions. Only a very specific set of opinions. That's not what a company called "Technology, Entertainment, Design" should stand for. The only thing this company should stand for is cold, objective, unbiased facts.
When I was a younger me I loved driving on the road that took you around a local Reservoir. Each season introduced you to new and wonderous discoveries. One late Winter early Spring while sitting on the shore I heard what sounded like Wind Chimes a gentle tinkling sound. Then I discovered the sound was coming from the shore line. When the Ice Sheet begins to thaw, the ice breaks up into long cycles and the current carries them away. In doing so they knock against each other causing the tinkling sound, it was quite magical. But then one mid-spring I noticed a swarm of Mayflies. After living as a community of larvi in the water they then shed their larval skin and emerge as flies. They mate, the females lay their eggs and then they die. So as long as the water exists so do they. But I thought then that the swarm was more like one organism. This survival strategy obviously has been going on for billions of years as with the Prochlorococus, though with insects hundreds of million. So will we discover simple lifeforms living at the polar Caps of Mars or deep underground. It's amazing how adaptive living entities are. Penny an amazing lecture thank you. Have a nice day and follow your bliss.
Mike C The natural world is deadly and full of suffering. The most numerous animals are literally parasites, and wild animals are beset with disease, predation, parasitism, and intraspecies conflict. The nice smell from grass is a pain response from being cut by people and eaten by bugs. The coral reefs are layers of dead organisms. Infant and maternal mortality rates are high in places without modern medicine. Nature is a infinite parade of suffering, but looking from the outside with stage crews filming TV specials, or on a camping trip where you prepare everything you need beforehand and go on predetermined trails that have been purged of dangerous animals by indigenous peoples over thousands of years, it looks beautiful and amazing. Nature isn't even good at regulating itself, because sometimes species get too successful and cause massive ecological cataclysms, for example the Oxygen Catastrophe or the Late Devonian Extinction. The current extinction being driven by humanity is another manifestation of the chaos that is nature. So don't get high and mighty about how "out of touch" humans are with nature. All you're seeing is nature with the ability to reflect on itself.
Will Pack And yet, we are the best chance the earth may ever have to spread life to other worlds and continue its existence beyond the lifetime of the earth 😐
ElectricChaplain Yes and a star for the earlier post, and an Amen about our need to become interplanetary. But in doing the latter we may realize the difficulty and be better equiped and determined to make smarter decisions here on Earth...
ElectricChaplain Then, isn't his high and mightiness, his out of -of-touchness, assumption, and prescription of his limited views the very manifestation of nature's chaotic nature, and thus by not being aware and just flowing with his desires is more in tune than to realize the chaos, stand still, and stare at it in fear? Pain and suffering is there so we keep running from them, while I dash from them the rush prevents me from feeling them, but I stop and focus on them, and accept them...
Love this lecture. Great to see more and more women in the forefront of science. Brilliant skills in research and excellent skills in communicating science to the lay-person. Love the apps analogy to aid in understanding genes. Nice!
Aidan Walker Well maybe, though it took a billion years for them to naturally evolve and build this wonderful earth as we know it. We could study and enhance genetically further to reap better benefits. That's why she is bringing this talk forward in all honesty. Cool one!
Paravat Chantarakajon You could say that. You probably know that but it more because of the Moon's fundamental effect to create our sure system. Sure Mars does look a promising experiment. Nice one!
Mike C Yeah indeed. I think there is frozen ice caps on Mars and if we will need more I think there is an asteroid belt next to it. Space mining seems to be the next big thing to help with this process. Nice one!
What a fascinating speech! What a perfect scientist! Not to mention those bosonian-ish prochlorococci! I'll be daydreaming about them, too. Thank you, Penny.
Amazing lecture, the importance of these tiny creatures is astounding and its capacity to adapt even in their genetic level is also fantastic. This is food for philosophical and spiritual reflections as well. Thank you so much for such precious and enriching upload!
That looks a nice discovery and although i know pretty much nothing about alternative energies, my fantasy (after a bottle of vodka) says: - Oh we may use those to generate fuel! But there's always a but... and making fuel from microorganisms is already in use. In some kind of forms it has been used since ages, even before people knew about microorganisms too, although that's another story. So, meanwhile generating forms of fuel from microorganisms that live on sweet waters doesn't require an extremely high investment, that isn't equal said for structures in oceans... which means we will remain only hopping those creatures will just keep working for generating oxygen as much as those can and will be worthless for almost any other form of use. Maybe other writers similar to Jules Verne may push human's imagination to new adventures and new form of investments to make the use of Prochlorococcus in a good way possible. Let's hope.
Sort of. But that applies better to the mitochondria within our cells who (which?!) have their own genome (RNA) and are basically working like protobacteria.
Sonja Waringer: Well the prevailing hypothesis is that they were prokaryotes that were absorbed by a eukaryote that, instead of digesting it, started a symbiotic relationship. The event was so rare, that scientists have evidence that it only happened once in all of life's 3.9 billion year history. This means that even if life was common throughout the universe, that multi-cellular life is probably extremely rare in comparison to life in general.
les buzz it all out loud....lets raise a toast for our beloved PROCHOLOROCOCCUS....nd thank god for this amazing diversity, of whose co-operation and co-ordination among themselves unknowingly...makes what we call as EARTH.....lets all thank all those tiny little engines (also including the macro ones)...that help maintaining, managing, rejuvenating, refreshing, recycling, recreating and nourishing our MOTHER EARTH....peace....
some researchers are looking at the pollution-acidification of the oceans, as being currently close to the extinction-point for the bottom of the oceanic food chain
At our current rate of fishing, all fish stocks will be gone by the year 2048. So worrying about what the non-existent fish will eat in the future is putting the cart before the horse.
Mike C There needs to be a major shift in the way we use plastics and the way we consume food. Animal Agriculture is the leading cause of ocean dead zones, water pollution, species extinction and causes half of all ocean acidification. And "Bycatch" kills 300,000 Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises & 50 million Sharks annually. 2.7 Trillion sea animals are killed via fishing each year, that's 11 x the number of stars in our galaxy. Seafood is off my menu.
jhunt5578 capitalism will come up with the solution - if there is a market , entrepreneurs will supply the demand. There were always hysterical people claiming Malthus was right. Hunger is a result of poor distribution, not production.
Mike C unfortunately we disagree in a forum not conducive to such a disagreement. I understand your points but disagree both about the nature of the problem and the nature of capitalism. My only point was that more capitalist countries are better fed- yes often with crap food- but hunger is most often , even in the case of natural disaster, a product of gov’t intervention. Capitalism’s ability to feed populations should be dismissed because it doesn’t meet the standards of utopian non-capitalist scenarios- and has the negative of often causing mass starvation whether in Ukraine, Ethiopia, China or Venezuela.
Maybe I can tie this together back to the original topic. If capitalism had a way to account for the work this life form does for us, and all natural processes from this and other foundations, then capitalism would make different decisions? No idea how to make economies do this? Maybe blockchains for these and other fundamental natural resources? ...and there I go on yet another tangent. ;p
Sorry , but you are wrong about oil being a fossil fuel , it is instead a by-product of geological activity deep within the earth. It doesnt run out . Even the wells which have run out , start running again after a number of years.
Renewables are gain ground rapidly, but these systems are huge and take decades to change. I agree if you say you'll look around you for ways to burn less fossil fuels.
If these process 50 billion tons, and the land plants process 50 billion tons, and the total emissions was 40 billion tons(2014) then the global carbon taxation is a for profit scam.
Amino acids etc are designed. Design is a product of intelligence. How do we explain the primitive forms giving rise to more complex organisms except by intelligent design. It's like the I-phone X evolving from previous versions - ON IT'S OWN.
14:47 tell that to the Oil Company, and watch as they "make u an offer You cant Refuse" have you not being paying any attention of late, unless they make money too, you end up in a ditch with an un-marked grave. many things have been invented with out the need for fossil fuels. and most of the Creators were offered a check, or a 1 way ticket to god. and right then after u saw a public announcement u never heard from them again. you may be an old granny, but if u figure it out, they don't care. could be tagged as a heart attack.
This is what I subscribed to TED for!
ditto
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I agree!
Me too. This what I do like about TED. It has wide range of topics to suit everyone's interest. Some of these talks I don't agree with but I watch them anyways because I want everyone's opinion or view of things. But I really do enjoy these science talks.
Rebecca 'Spooky' Duran
The problem with TED these days is, that they *don't* represent all opinions. Only a very specific set of opinions.
That's not what a company called "Technology, Entertainment, Design" should stand for.
The only thing this company should stand for is cold, objective, unbiased facts.
She is the 2019 Crafoord Prize recipient (the Nobel equivalent for astronomy, geosciences, biosciences with emphasis on ecology, and polyarthritis).
When I was a younger me I loved driving on the road that took you around a local Reservoir. Each season introduced you to new and wonderous discoveries. One late Winter early Spring while sitting on the shore I heard what sounded like Wind Chimes a gentle tinkling sound. Then I discovered the sound was coming from the shore line. When the Ice Sheet begins to thaw, the ice breaks up into long cycles and the current carries them away. In doing so they knock against each other causing the tinkling sound, it was quite magical. But then one mid-spring I noticed a swarm of Mayflies. After living as a community of larvi in the water they then shed their larval skin and emerge as flies. They mate, the females lay their eggs and then they die. So as long as the water exists so do they. But I thought then that the swarm was more like one organism.
This survival strategy obviously has been going on for billions of years as with the Prochlorococus, though with insects hundreds of million. So will we discover simple lifeforms living at the polar Caps of Mars or deep underground. It's amazing how adaptive living entities are. Penny an amazing lecture thank you. Have a nice day and follow your bliss.
It is wonderful hear the voice of all the papers I've read. She's a good speaker
So few comments, If only science videos sparked as much discussion as political ones.
Mike C
*political science noun*
The branch of knowledge that deals with the state and systems of government
Mike C The natural world is deadly and full of suffering.
The most numerous animals are literally parasites, and wild animals are beset with disease, predation, parasitism, and intraspecies conflict.
The nice smell from grass is a pain response from being cut by people and eaten by bugs. The coral reefs are layers of dead organisms. Infant and maternal mortality rates are high in places without modern medicine.
Nature is a infinite parade of suffering, but looking from the outside with stage crews filming TV specials, or on a camping trip where you prepare everything you need beforehand and go on predetermined trails that have been purged of dangerous animals by indigenous peoples over thousands of years, it looks beautiful and amazing.
Nature isn't even good at regulating itself, because sometimes species get too successful and cause massive ecological cataclysms, for example the Oxygen Catastrophe or the Late Devonian Extinction.
The current extinction being driven by humanity is another manifestation of the chaos that is nature.
So don't get high and mighty about how "out of touch" humans are with nature. All you're seeing is nature with the ability to reflect on itself.
Will Pack And yet, we are the best chance the earth may ever have to spread life to other worlds and continue its existence beyond the lifetime of the earth 😐
ElectricChaplain Yes and a star for the earlier post, and an Amen about our need to become interplanetary. But in doing the latter we may realize the difficulty and be better equiped and determined to make smarter decisions here on Earth...
ElectricChaplain Then, isn't his high and mightiness, his out of -of-touchness, assumption, and prescription of his limited views the very manifestation of nature's chaotic nature, and thus by not being aware and just flowing with his desires is more in tune than to realize the chaos, stand still, and stare at it in fear? Pain and suffering is there so we keep running from them, while I dash from them the rush prevents me from feeling them, but I stop and focus on them, and accept them...
She is everything. An accomplished, self assured woman, don’t no important work and a sense of humour. Love her!
I would like to thank prochlorococcus for bringing her out. God, this is an ancient green berry that could!
Love this lecture. Great to see more and more women in the forefront of science. Brilliant skills in research and excellent skills in communicating science to the lay-person. Love the apps analogy to aid in understanding genes. Nice!
Amazing TED Talk, Penny really is a great public speaker and should do more talks
What do you want her to talk about? She only studied this one micro organism for the last 35 years.
Anything she'd be happy to talk about, maybe there's more to add to the conversation, or will be in a few years
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I knew she was going to talk about phytoplancton as soon as I saw the title!
This is probably one of my favourite Ted talks! So inspiring for those going into marine microbiology
Fact, the smallest of things are sometimes the most important of things.
This microorganism, Prochlorococcus is a natural asset in terroforming other planets. Nice one!
0megalvyz1 All we need to do is wait a few billion years.
Aidan Walker Well maybe, though it took a billion years for them to naturally evolve and build this wonderful earth as we know it. We could study and enhance genetically further to reap better benefits. That's why she is bringing this talk forward in all honesty. Cool one!
TO MARS Brah! Why not the moon first, oh geopolitical tension due to proximity.
Paravat Chantarakajon You could say that. You probably know that but it more because of the Moon's fundamental effect to create our sure system. Sure Mars does look a promising experiment. Nice one!
Mike C Yeah indeed. I think there is frozen ice caps on Mars and if we will need more I think there is an asteroid belt next to it. Space mining seems to be the next big thing to help with this process. Nice one!
What a fascinating speech! What a perfect scientist! Not to mention those bosonian-ish prochlorococci!
I'll be daydreaming about them, too.
Thank you, Penny.
Thank you Penny... Very informative and well put.
Awesome! Love to hear about this! Great talk. Very educational.
Great lecture, the ocean is responsible for all living things, thank you for the insight.
This was very interesting. This is why we need TED
Many thanks for sharing the story of these microorganisms 🌎🌿
Amazing lecture, the importance of these tiny creatures is astounding and its capacity to adapt even in their genetic level is also fantastic. This is food for philosophical and spiritual reflections as well. Thank you so much for such precious and enriching upload!
Amazing story, Penny. Thank you!
what a great teacher she is
Love the metaphors she uses, makes this much easier to grasp.
As hot air goes, this is good hot air
Wow! That was amazing, Penny.
This was way more interesting then I thought it would be.
What an inspiration! People like you, Dr. Chisholm, that give us hope.
her work is beyond amazing
Wonderful presentation :)
Amazing facts and excellent presentation
I love learning about our Oceans , Phytoplankton are miraculous .
I wish to pursue a study of Prochlorococcus for my graduate study and Penny you are amazing! 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠💖
Maybe these thing have a scent.
Maybe salmon use these somehow in order to navigate back to their spawning grounds.
Anyone?
This woman is so awesome!
Best Ted talk in a long time.
I wish I was a Prochlorococcus !
Brilliant. Thanks
That looks a nice discovery and although i know pretty much nothing about alternative energies, my fantasy (after a bottle of vodka) says: - Oh we may use those to generate fuel! But there's always a but... and making fuel from microorganisms is already in use. In some kind of forms it has been used since ages, even before people knew about microorganisms too, although that's another story. So, meanwhile generating forms of fuel from microorganisms that live on sweet waters doesn't require an extremely high investment, that isn't equal said for structures in oceans... which means we will remain only hopping those creatures will just keep working for generating oxygen as much as those can and will be worthless for almost any other form of use. Maybe other writers similar to Jules Verne may push human's imagination to new adventures and new form of investments to make the use of Prochlorococcus in a good way possible. Let's hope.
Tardigrades are the most fascinating critter of all!
midichlorians?
Mini- chloroians too
Sort of. But that applies better to the mitochondria within our cells who (which?!) have their own genome (RNA) and are basically working like protobacteria.
You having Worf as your profile picture makes this commentary even more perfect. :'D
that dont explain anything at all who created this there had too be a beginning
Sonja Waringer: Well the prevailing hypothesis is that they were prokaryotes that were absorbed by a eukaryote that, instead of digesting it, started a symbiotic relationship. The event was so rare, that scientists have evidence that it only happened once in all of life's 3.9 billion year history. This means that even if life was common throughout the universe, that multi-cellular life is probably extremely rare in comparison to life in general.
Yes, this will be on your exam!
There will be no Oceans, without the Federation of scientists ,
Praise be the prochlorococcus!
Very informative, thank you Dr Chisholm! We hope to sequence PCC in our community lab sometime soon.
This may be why some natural fertilizers require sea water.
Amazing talk!
Great talk -- thanks!
What you talking about? Everyone has heard of pro-mo-wut-yo-ma-call-it
lmao
les buzz it all out loud....lets raise a toast for our beloved PROCHOLOROCOCCUS....nd thank god for this amazing diversity, of whose co-operation and co-ordination among themselves unknowingly...makes what we call as EARTH.....lets all thank all those tiny little engines (also including the macro ones)...that help maintaining, managing, rejuvenating, refreshing, recycling, recreating and nourishing our MOTHER EARTH....peace....
some researchers are looking at the pollution-acidification of the oceans, as being currently close to the extinction-point for the bottom of the oceanic food chain
She's great :)
Thank you I finally fell asleep !!
Long live microorganisms!
the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Yeah I wonder if they're related.
At our current rate of fishing, all fish stocks will be gone by the year 2048. So worrying about what the non-existent fish will eat in the future is putting the cart before the horse.
Mike C There needs to be a major shift in the way we use plastics and the way we consume food. Animal Agriculture is the leading cause of ocean dead zones, water pollution, species extinction and causes half of all ocean acidification. And "Bycatch" kills 300,000 Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises & 50 million Sharks annually. 2.7 Trillion sea animals are killed via fishing each year, that's 11 x the number of stars in our galaxy. Seafood is off my menu.
jhunt5578 capitalism will come up with the solution - if there is a market , entrepreneurs will supply the demand. There were always hysterical people claiming Malthus was right. Hunger is a result of poor distribution, not production.
Mike C unfortunately we disagree in a forum not conducive to such a disagreement. I understand your points but disagree both about the nature of the problem and the nature of capitalism. My only point was that more capitalist countries are better fed- yes often with crap food- but hunger is most often , even in the case of natural disaster, a product of gov’t intervention. Capitalism’s ability to feed populations should be dismissed because it doesn’t meet the standards of utopian non-capitalist scenarios- and has the negative of often causing mass starvation whether in Ukraine, Ethiopia, China or Venezuela.
jhunt5578 exactly what I was thinking
Maybe I can tie this together back to the original topic. If capitalism had a way to account for the work this life form does for us, and all natural processes from this and other foundations, then capitalism would make different decisions?
No idea how to make economies do this? Maybe blockchains for these and other fundamental natural resources? ...and there I go on yet another tangent. ;p
A truly wonderful discovery
Cynobacterium ansestors?
Question: How do you use this in space travel, like say a generation ship or a Mars colony?
Thanks Penny. Are these the Earth's thermostat and the solution to global warming?
Sorry , but you are wrong about oil being a fossil fuel , it is instead a by-product of geological activity deep within the earth.
It doesnt run out . Even the wells which have run out , start running again after a number of years.
Coal is carbonated forests and thus not from micro organisms.
what a great speaker!!!
If theres an advertisement for something then you dont need it
This is about the best explanation why climate change is not to be neglected, and how much of a threat humans are to the planet.
These are the Ted talks we want. No more bullshit race bait or gender crap.
What a story Mark
I wonder if they exist inside plants somehow. Like chloroplasts.
The name is not "Little Green". It's "Dende"...
I enjoyed this video #
Dang it! Photosynthesis? You mean life can't exist without it? Someone page algore on the White Phone and tell him we NEED Carbon Dioxide Stat!
What would happen if you drink a tube of these babies @ 9:19 ?
Where is the arabic caption ☹?
I think all we really need to do is make it so fossil fuels are not profitable. They'll work on renewable energy real quick.
Renewables are gain ground rapidly, but these systems are huge and take decades to change. I agree if you say you'll look around you for ways to burn less fossil fuels.
Harvest plants, not animals. Great video, sans the omni agenda.
our planet isn't teaming with life and animals anymore though........
Really?
She seemed so nervous.
If these process 50 billion tons, and the land plants process 50 billion tons, and the total emissions was 40 billion tons(2014) then the global carbon taxation is a for profit scam.
Their name is dende
she looks like jim carey
Can we eat pure Prochlorococcus?
Well, if humans kill off all the fish and animals, I suspect the Proclorococcus might eventually take over.
Go back to bed
Can we keep them as pets?
Damn it TED. It was a secret.
Cool
I love this woman. 😂😂😂😂 great educator. 👍🙊🙈🙉
Amino acids etc are designed. Design is a product of intelligence. How do we explain the primitive forms giving rise to more complex organisms except by intelligent design. It's like the I-phone X evolving from previous versions - ON IT'S OWN.
they really crank........................
why it doesn't have Korean subtitles??
이승현 you go do it.
Türkçe altyazı gelsin lütfen
14:47 tell that to the Oil Company, and watch as they "make u an offer You cant Refuse" have you not being paying any attention of late, unless they make money too, you end up in a ditch with an un-marked grave. many things have been invented with out the need for fossil fuels. and most of the Creators were offered a check, or a 1 way ticket to god. and right then after u saw a public announcement u never heard from them again. you may be an old granny, but if u figure it out, they don't care. could be tagged as a heart attack.
The _other_ "Top 1%" =D
I think her DNA was altered
damn it does the name have to be so difficult to memorize XD
Mitochondria?!
Now we only need to wonder if pollution will kill them or not because if it does. Life is doom anyway.
One-Soul-a-Time nope ca. 15:05
I need tranlate to bahasa, please help me to undestand all.
Double like
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i only eat mushrooms so you are lying to me
Twitter is a bunch of counts that can't have ducisiin if what they want
This info is not correct.
there's no such thing as fossil fuel oil. Do your research
TED-x really erodes the value of TED.
I am so glad for TED, so dissatisfied with TED-x.