Journey to the Microcosmos

  • Premiere: Jun 2019
  • Episoden: 230
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The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
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Mai 29, 2023
If we were to write a fable to get this moral across, it would have to star the freshwater cnidarian called the hydra. Because in the hydra, the question of butts connects to the .. show full overview
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When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
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Jun 05, 2023
Oomycetes are one of the more unusual-looking microbes we’ve seen in the microcosmos. It looks more like a coral reef painted by an artist inspired by Gustav Klimt and a pile of trash. .. show full overview
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Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
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Jun 19, 2023
There’s a few things that give Beggiatoa away. The first is the simple serpentine shape of their bodies, and the second are those little dots inside of them. They look like bubbles, but they’re actually sulfur granules.
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The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
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Jun 23, 2023
The microcosmos is home to many unusual partnerships. Life is, after all, just relationships, each of which build upon one another like strokes of paint in an epic tableau of ecology, epidemics, and yogurt?
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We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
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Jul 10, 2023
A little while ago, James found himself with a bit of a problem. He was keeping some wheat grains at home to use as food for the microbes that he cultures and films for our enjoyment. .. show full overview
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Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
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Jul 17, 2023
When you hear the phrase “brain-eating amoebas,” is there a particular image that comes to mind? Whatever you envision, it's probably not what the notorious brain-eating amoeba that strikes fear in our hearts actually looks like.
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This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
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Jul 24, 2023
Usually we’re looking into pond water or whatever other fascinating bit of nature that James, our master of microscopes, usually looks at. But right now, our sights are coming to us .. show full overview
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Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal (ft. John Green)
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Jul 31, 2023
Under the microscope, mosquitos undergo a metamorphosis sculpted in gold. The buzzing body takes on a life of its own, its usual role as menace lying far beyond the margins of the screen.
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Falling In Love With Microscopy
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Aug 07, 2023
This video is all about James, who many of you know as our master of microscopes. He is the scientist, and the artist, behind just about everything we are able to see in our collective journey through the microcosmos.
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The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
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Aug 14, 2023
When was the last time you saw a puddle? Was it recent—perhaps some time in the past week, fresh from a downpour? Or has it been a long time since you’ve seen rain, and so an even longer time since your path has crossed a puddle?
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Why Are Some Birds Blue?
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Aug 21, 2023
One of the spectacular details of animals in our world is just how varied their colors can be. When you look at birds, for example, you’ll see everything from mundane grays to iridescent .. show full overview
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The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
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Aug 28, 2023
When you think of bees, you probably don’t think of single-celled eukaryotes. What could an insect have in common with, say, a ciliate?
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Floating Cities of Scum
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Sep 04, 2023
Pond scum is kind of a rude name, isn’t it? It feels kind of appropriate when you’re wading through murky waters, and you might not be able to see it, but you sure can feel it—whether or not you want to.
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Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
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Sep 11, 2023
An ambiguously long time ago, there was this theory of medicine. An idea that if you came across a plant that looked like a body part, that meant it was meant to treat ailments that .. show full overview
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Nostoc: Mysterious Mucus Piles
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Sep 18, 2023
In the 1820s, a man named Dr. R. Brandes walked through a meadow on a quest to try and answer a centuries-old question about a mysterious gelatinous substance on the ground known as “star jelly.”
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Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
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Sep 25, 2023
Our master of microscopes is always looking for rare ciliates that live in areas low in oxygen. But when he puts those samples under a growth light, his tubes quickly turn the color of .. show full overview
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This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
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Okt 02, 2023
In the middle of the 19th century, a scientist stared into the microscope and found, staring back at him, a vampire.
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Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
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Okt 09, 2023
Of all the animals that we’ve examined in the microcosmos, leeches are probably one of the few that can be used as a verb, to leech off someone—to take and take from them, like a worm consuming someone’s blood.
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This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
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Okt 16, 2023
If you have been following Journey to the Microcosmos for some time, this might sound like a familiar story. Consider this a proper slasher movie sequel.
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We Have No Clue Why These Worms Like To Dance
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Okt 23, 2023
Do you know what’s in your water? Do you know what’s buried deep in those depths?
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Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
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Okt 30, 2023
The Microcosmos is a minefield. We can't see the dangers, but we keep looking, because we want to know, we have to know, what's causing these microbes to freeze.
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Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
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Nov 06, 2023
Can life be created spontaneously? Well, a year and a half ago, our master of microscopes, James, was inspired by the idea of spontaneous generation and set up his own little experiment.
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Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
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Nov 13, 2023
Today's episode has one particular theme: a bunch of funny things going on in the microcosmos.
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What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
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Nov 20, 2023
If, for some reason, you ever find yourself reading a bunch of papers about cryptomonads, you might come across this strange fact: they have four genomes. That sounds like a lot of .. show full overview
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The History of Red Algae
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Dez 11, 2023
Imagine that you aren’t watching the microcosmos right now. Instead you’re living in the world as it existed around one billion years ago, and you are the ancestor of this red algae.
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These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
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Dez 18, 2023
In May 2013, a shipment of around 1.5 tons of seemingly normal cheese was refused entry into the United States. And while looks wise there was nothing suspicious, according to the Food .. show full overview
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Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
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Jan 09, 2024
In the northeast Atlantic Ocean, plankton populations aren’t looking like they used to. And at the center of it all are tiny, photosynthetic bacteria called picocyanobacteria who may just outlast us all.
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We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
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Jan 15, 2024
We don’t know if there are many rites of passage institutionalized among amateur microscopists. But we have to imagine that, as people find themselves navigating the microcosmos for the first time, they’re often on the lookout for tardigrades.
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The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
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Jan 22, 2024
When you think of kombucha, you might think of a nice, refreshing, healthy drink, one that’s exceptionally good for your microbiome. What we here at Journey to the Microcosmos think of .. show full overview
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This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
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Jan 29, 2024
After an absence of almost 90 years, we’ve found a rare ciliate last written about about in 1933.
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What Makes A Microbe Rare?
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Feb 12, 2024
In the microcosmos—where the organisms vastly outnumber us, where what we find in a single pool of water can change from day to day—it makes us as what it mean for a microbe to be rare?
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These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
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Feb 19, 2024
One of the fascinating aspects of microscopy is the way you can look so deeply into something that it becomes unrecognizable. What could look like a stained glass window could actually turn out to be... a hopping shrimp?
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This special diatom is having a very bad day
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Feb 27, 2024
It’s hard to count how many times we’ve encountered diatoms on Journey to the Microcosmos. However, we've always talked about the more colorful variety of diatom, and not the ones that are colorless.
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We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
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Mär 04, 2024
If you’ve clicked on this video, we assume it’s because you read the title, “We fed our microbes blood so you don’t have to,” and immediately asked the question everyone asks when a youtuber says they did something so you don’t have to: but why?
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These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
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Mär 11, 2024
If you were asked to describe what a sea slug is, you might be tempted to go with the straightforward response: it’s a slug that lives in the sea. And you know, you wouldn’t be wrong.
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What Does Cancer Look Like?
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Mär 25, 2024
Usually on Journey to the Microcosmos, we spend our time delving into the microscopic world and the surprising things that microbes have to teach us. But today, we would like to talk about Hank Green, and what was his cancer.
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Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
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Apr 15, 2024
Today James, our master of microscopes, is using a microscopy slide as a cutting board, chopping away at the slide to end up with a bunch of individual stentors.
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Some Amoeba Make Armor From Their Dead Enemies
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Apr 22, 2024
This amoeba has a shell around it, which seems like a pretty good idea. The world at large is full of predators, and shells seem like a straightforward strategy to ward those predators .. show full overview
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We Found Something Strange in Portugal
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Apr 29, 2024
Sometimes, the microcosmos can take a little while to surprise. You have to be patient, enjoying the familiar sights as you wait for something new.
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We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
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Mai 06, 2024
We know that it’s bad form to return to the same word over and over again here on Journey to the Microcosmos. But whenever we write about amoeba, we will probably say the word “blob” a lot.
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You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
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Mai 13, 2024
When James, our master of microscopes, was looking through samples he’d received from Spain, he didn’t expect to see this—a creature straight out of a horror movie, with dark reddish brown eyes and tentacles streaming out of its mouth.
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Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
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Mai 28, 2024
When you think of mussels and clams and other bivalve animals, you might think of something as shelled and static, perhaps sitting on your plate at a fancy restaurant. But before the .. show full overview
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What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
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Jun 22, 2024
We’re focusing today on a Journey to the Microcosmos favorite: the ciliates, the single-celled eukaryotes covered in hair-like structures called cilia. We want to be more self-centered and explore what ciliates have taught us about ourselves.
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What Do Seasons Look Like to Microbes?
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Jun 24, 2024
Have you ever wondered what seasons look like to a microbe? How they navigate the highs, the lows, and all the muddy, slushy in-betweens?
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What Can Ciliates Teach Us About Ciliates
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Jul 09, 2024
For James, our master of microscopes, the immense breadth has made ciliates a bit of an obsession. Whether he’s hunting down a rare species, or documenting the behavior of something more familiar, there’s always something spectacular in this group.
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Why Found A Fascinating Tiny Amoeba in Portugal
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Jul 10, 2024
Our Master of Microscopes James was fascinated by something he found in some samples he had been given from Portugal. Something that would lead us to a kraken in the microcosmos…but how?
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Mysteries from a Nuclear Test Site
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Aug 05, 2024
James, our master of microscopes, seems like a tough person to get a gift for. What do you get the person who has the entirety of the microcosmos available to him with just a glimpse through a lens?
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Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
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Aug 19, 2024
Flatworms are kind of adorable. And they have keep scientists up at night for a few reasons.
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A Collection of Tiny Universes
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Sep 03, 2024
Whenever we get to watch things through the microscope together, it’s like we’re transported to another world—or maybe another universe, or dimension. Time and space feel off somehow, .. show full overview
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Some Microbes Also Take Naps
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Sep 16, 2024
One thing we’ve heard from many of you is that this show is your sleep show, that soothing bit of media you put on when you need to slow down your brain and drift off. We take that as a .. show full overview
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We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
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Okt 14, 2024
Science is about more than just finding immutable laws of nature. It’s about having the imagination to try things and ask questions that might not necessarily lead anywhere, but that just… feel right.
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The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)
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Okt 28, 2024
People have been staring through the microscope for centuries, peering into the microcosmos and uncovering its beauty as they pursue deeper questions about the world around us. This is .. show full overview

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