I was waiting for this channel to tackle Nostoc for so long now. I think the video should have highlighted the nitrogen fixing cell, which is distinct from others, mainly because nitrogen fixation requires a strict anaerobic condition and these specialized cells have thicker cell walls and other adaptations.
Yeah! It's a super interesting problem because you need lots of energy to fix nitrogen but low or no oxygen at the same time, when the best way to get lots of energy is to burn up food and oxygen.
I found it interesting the types of cells that go dormant or kind of dye off and seem to service scaffolding for the rest of the blob. I didn't know about this channel until few months ago really. But Love Hank!!! I have a connective tissue disorder. The biological origins of programmed cell death are interesting to me except I don't have a science academic background mine was in the humanities elsewhere.
@@joshuac.6437 I am blocking you only because of that comment just in case I ever come across you in the real world I will know that there was some reason in the past that I never wanted to meet you. Nor work with you. Nor be your neighbor.
Nostoc is a gardener's friend from the time seeds sprout till harvest since it produces nitrogen. Hence, NPK fertilizers. Making my own fertilizer through swamp tea production, a nitrogen rich concoction made possible by nostoc bacteria. I am such a geek at 4am lol.
I am so surprised to find out that one of our favorite local dishes is actually made from bacteria. I remember the times after it rained; we would go around looking for them. Since they are small and often mixed with dirt, we had to spend a lot of time washing them. The popular way is to prepare them with pickled vegetables, which are also local to my area, either in soup form or just stir-fried. Nowadays, as it's becoming a trend to have wild-grown food, you can also buy them from the local market pre-washed. I am so glad to learn the facts behind it. Big thank you from China.
Some trees also make a snot like jelly when they are stressed or have an infection. I discovered this on a trail where we'd been getting too much rain, weird brownish jelly hanging from tree branches. apparently an immune reaction.
@@ArawnOfAnnwnTo carry materials (water, sugar, minerals, etc.) around the plant's body, with occasional other purposes, depending on the species, such as sealing wounds. Sap is plant blood, basically. Also, tree resin is not jelly-like, and amber, which is fossilized tree resin, is solid.
I’ve been around giant pine trees my whole life. Until recently, I never saw this - they have a frothy or foamy substance coming out of them in rain. So much that it accumulates on the ground. THAT is NOT normal! Next time I see it, I’m putting it under the scope!
just last week i was looking for an ojibwe word for shooting star and came across the word for starshoot, which is apparently nostoc, which I had never heard of. Your timing is, as ever, impeccable
I remember often seeing this stuff at construction sites where grass had died or been scraped away. Thanks for enlightening me, I always thought it was algae.
So glad you're back, Hank!! And this was FAR more interesting than I thought it would be. Somehow I forgot that I'd heard of "star jelly" until halfway through the video... but nonetheless I didn't know ANY of this stuff. I never thought mucus and colony-making could be so fun!
Glad you are well ejough to come back, Hank. The moldy, slimy stuff appears all over one day. Often gone the next. Who are the brave people who decide to try to eat this stuff? Are they starving? That said, I will try nearly anything, once I know somebody else has eaten it and survived.
man once while tripping long ago in a backwood, i started noticing plants and then the undergrowth and then the carpet on the ground. some stuff on the ground didn't seem plant-like at all, more scaly or jelly. thought i was seeing things but thanks to this channel, i now know i was not. those were star slime and liverworts
I would definitely do some more research. :D I don't know about nostoc but there are definitely some very poisonous cyanobacteria. And they're not the only weird gloops on the ground.
This video reminded me of something I've not yet found an explanation for. Several years ago, I was on top of a ridge behind where I work. It was mostly clayey sandstone soil up there. My foot sank through the soil, and I stepped in something white and sticky, which seemed to have formed a mass just under the surface. The texture was a bit like that of taffy being pulled, but a bit softer and slimier. It reminded me of the descriptions of "star jelly" I'd read. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to take a sample of it, and I forgot about it for many years.
What a coincidence. "Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim" was also what they called me in high school. I was always late to class for some reason.
Wouldn't it be fun if scientists still used such entertaining language as "excrement blown from the nostrils of some rheumatic planet, falling upon spacious plains, fields and sheep pastures"?
If I buy a microscope my main objective would be to observe bacteria. But I have heard that bacteria is boring to observe, I don't know for sure. Suggestion: a video about bacteria vs "everything else", how they behave under the microscope? Is bacteria the equivalent of the vegetal kingdom in the microcosmos?
Most bacteria are super tiny and hard to see unless you stain them, which involves killing them. The cyanobacteria are unusually large for bacteria. Still, they just kind of slowly move in one direction, so aren't as fun to watch as most of the other things on this channel. Looking at stained bacteria can be cool to see all the different kinds of cells.
Some bacteria like Pseudomonas (and many gut bacteria) do wiggle and move around a lot, but they're too tiny to appreciate much complexity from in a regular bright field light microscope at least. Though do keep in mind bacteria as a grouping are probably more diverse than all eukaryotes combined so there'll be a lot of outliers. Though to actually observe them clearly you probably need to stain them which kills them, unless you are doing something more specialised like dark field or phase contrast microscopy.
I don't believe you. You made up Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. No parent would look at their child and say, "oh little Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, you have your father's smile"!
I really like the name Paracelsus, even if it doesn't have the fun rhythm of his original name! _Nostoc_ is a super cool name for anything, and I'm glad it got attached to a really neat creature.
Hello fellow weeb! I wasn't expecting to find that out here either lol. Granted, the more I learn, the more I realize there's soooo much stuff like this that gets referenced in anime and jrpgs. Lots of Pokemon are based on critters we've found in the fossil record. Some of the enemies in the Dark Souls games are based on living animals. And then folklore and history references *everywhere*. It's friggin great
An author, Frater Acher, explored a fascinating aspect of Paracelsian philosophy from a modern perspective in a book called Ingenium, which is the name of the organ that Paracelsus believed connected the physical body with the non-physical Self.
There can't be that many taxa named by occult alchemists! 😂 Paracelsus also invented the words "sylph", "gnome", and "undyne". The "nostril" association might have been in reference to the shape of the macro colonies, which I've also heard described as "ear-like". That's just speculation on my part though. Can also tie star jelly to H. P. Lovecraft, and his short story "The Color Out of Space", a personal favorite of mine.
Thankyou for putting this star snot name for me to rest. Stars are hot places so i font know why people would think this slimy stuff would be boogers from the cosmos. Just terrestrial Goldilocks warm n wet planets like earth !👽🌒 And eating it , yuck yucky yucky even more yuckier ths grose. Now ill meditate this thought away✨🌺🦠🌈⚡🍃🌟
I was waiting for this channel to tackle Nostoc for so long now. I think the video should have highlighted the nitrogen fixing cell, which is distinct from others, mainly because nitrogen fixation requires a strict anaerobic condition and these specialized cells have thicker cell walls and other adaptations.
Yeah! It's a super interesting problem because you need lots of energy to fix nitrogen but low or no oxygen at the same time, when the best way to get lots of energy is to burn up food and oxygen.
I found it interesting the types of cells that go dormant or kind of dye off and seem to service scaffolding for the rest of the blob.
I didn't know about this channel until few months ago really. But Love Hank!!!
I have a connective tissue disorder. The biological origins of programmed cell death are interesting to me except I don't have a science academic background mine was in the humanities elsewhere.
Make your own damn video then
@@joshuac.6437 I am blocking you only because of that comment just in case I ever come across you in the real world I will know that there was some reason in the past that I never wanted to meet you. Nor work with you. Nor be your neighbor.
watching these makes me feel like hanks child hearing a bedtime story. its so comforting
Not David Attenborough level though, that guy puts me to sleep instantly! Most soothing voice ever.
@@american7169 honestly the only reason i dont pass out during those documentaries is the music always being balanced super loud lol
Nostoc is a gardener's friend from the time seeds sprout till harvest since it produces nitrogen. Hence, NPK fertilizers. Making my own fertilizer through swamp tea production, a nitrogen rich concoction made possible by nostoc bacteria. I am such a geek at 4am lol.
I am so surprised to find out that one of our favorite local dishes is actually made from bacteria. I remember the times after it rained; we would go around looking for them. Since they are small and often mixed with dirt, we had to spend a lot of time washing them. The popular way is to prepare them with pickled vegetables, which are also local to my area, either in soup form or just stir-fried. Nowadays, as it's becoming a trend to have wild-grown food, you can also buy them from the local market pre-washed. I am so glad to learn the facts behind it. Big thank you from China.
Some trees also make a snot like jelly when they are stressed or have an infection. I discovered this on a trail where we'd been getting too much rain, weird brownish jelly hanging from tree branches. apparently an immune reaction.
Isn't that just Amber? That thing that became famous thanks to Jurassic Park?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn amber is polymerized, mineralized tree resin.
@@Rockzilla1122 Yeah, and what do plants have resin for again?
@@ArawnOfAnnwnTo carry materials (water, sugar, minerals, etc.) around the plant's body, with occasional other purposes, depending on the species, such as sealing wounds. Sap is plant blood, basically. Also, tree resin is not jelly-like, and amber, which is fossilized tree resin, is solid.
I’ve been around giant pine trees my whole life. Until recently, I never saw this - they have a frothy or foamy substance coming out of them in rain. So much that it accumulates on the ground. THAT is NOT normal!
Next time I see it, I’m putting it under the scope!
Nobody told me THEOPHRASTUS BOMBASTUS & Von Honenhein where real names and part of the same name until now
sawbones, bestie. the podcast
Love Hank's calming voice in this channel.
Yay, you’re back!
just last week i was looking for an ojibwe word for shooting star and came across the word for starshoot, which is apparently nostoc, which I had never heard of.
Your timing is, as ever, impeccable
The forbidden snack pack
Not forbidden though since it's edible. The whole "forbidden food" thing is for things that aren't edible, how have you not understood that?
@@MuscarV2 who?
@@MuscarV2as soupstoothbrush said, who?
The forbidden tide pod
The nope jelly
I remember often seeing this stuff at construction sites where grass had died or been scraped away. Thanks for enlightening me, I always thought it was algae.
Hank's narration is topnotch. Wonderful to hear your voice, and I hope you are feeling better.
Excellent work Microcosmos team.
So glad you're back, Hank!! And this was FAR more interesting than I thought it would be. Somehow I forgot that I'd heard of "star jelly" until halfway through the video... but nonetheless I didn't know ANY of this stuff. I never thought mucus and colony-making could be so fun!
Glad you are well ejough to come back, Hank. The moldy, slimy stuff appears all over one day. Often gone the next. Who are the brave people who decide to try to eat this stuff? Are they starving?
That said, I will try nearly anything, once I know somebody else has eaten it and survived.
I love to hear your voice in a video again. Welcome back! 😀😀😀
man once while tripping long ago in a backwood, i started noticing plants and then the undergrowth and then the carpet on the ground. some stuff on the ground didn't seem plant-like at all, more scaly or jelly. thought i was seeing things but thanks to this channel, i now know i was not. those were star slime and liverworts
That's so cool. I've seen gelatinous substances on the ground before, but I didn't know that I could eat them.
Just mind the slime molds 😂
I would definitely do some more research. :D I don't know about nostoc but there are definitely some very poisonous cyanobacteria. And they're not the only weird gloops on the ground.
Thank you for this! I'd seen some and not known what it was, so this solved a year-long mystery for me :)
This video reminded me of something I've not yet found an explanation for. Several years ago, I was on top of a ridge behind where I work. It was mostly clayey sandstone soil up there. My foot sank through the soil, and I stepped in something white and sticky, which seemed to have formed a mass just under the surface. The texture was a bit like that of taffy being pulled, but a bit softer and slimier. It reminded me of the descriptions of "star jelly" I'd read. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to take a sample of it, and I forgot about it for many years.
What a coincidence. "Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim" was also what they called me in high school.
I was always late to class for some reason.
dude has bombastic in his name and doesnt use it wtf
Good to hear from you again, Little John!
Wouldn't it be fun if scientists still used such entertaining language as "excrement blown from the nostrils of some rheumatic planet, falling upon spacious plains, fields and sheep pastures"?
You're telling me this man had Bombastus in his name and *didn't* use it???
So…nostoc is manna from the book of Exodus. That would have been far more interesting to learn than anything I was taught in sunday school.
It would explain why they'd rather have some nice quail meat🤣
❤Hank's voice, hank's voice, hank's voice!! ❤
If I buy a microscope my main objective would be to observe bacteria. But I have heard that bacteria is boring to observe, I don't know for sure.
Suggestion: a video about bacteria vs "everything else", how they behave under the microscope?
Is bacteria the equivalent of the vegetal kingdom in the microcosmos?
Most bacteria are super tiny and hard to see unless you stain them, which involves killing them. The cyanobacteria are unusually large for bacteria. Still, they just kind of slowly move in one direction, so aren't as fun to watch as most of the other things on this channel. Looking at stained bacteria can be cool to see all the different kinds of cells.
Some bacteria like Pseudomonas (and many gut bacteria) do wiggle and move around a lot, but they're too tiny to appreciate much complexity from in a regular bright field light microscope at least. Though do keep in mind bacteria as a grouping are probably more diverse than all eukaryotes combined so there'll be a lot of outliers. Though to actually observe them clearly you probably need to stain them which kills them, unless you are doing something more specialised like dark field or phase contrast microscopy.
I don't believe you. You made up Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. No parent would look at their child and say, "oh little Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, you have your father's smile"!
I really like the name Paracelsus, even if it doesn't have the fun rhythm of his original name! _Nostoc_ is a super cool name for anything, and I'm glad it got attached to a really neat creature.
Welcome back Hank :)
Hank you're back
So happy to hear your voice on this video!
You were my inspiration to create my channel! I'm starting and the quality isn't the best but I will try to improve 🔬 :))
Man, I liked this as much as any conversation I've ever had about mucus.
"Up to cenitmeters in diameter!"
Me: Okay.
"For the Americans watching, that's almost a foot."
Me: WHOOOOAAA
😮😂blimey. They must have added VAT to get those centimetres to almost a foot
@@1234j 22cm is deffo closer to a foot than an inch though. It is like 3/4 of a foot.
Endlessly fascinating content🔬🦠💚
Yep I found some Jello on a trail once that definitely wasn't Jello
THAT VON HOENHIEM, THAT WHERE THEY TOO THE NAME FROM, FOR FULL METAL ALCHEMIST, THATS SO COOL.😊
Hello fellow weeb! I wasn't expecting to find that out here either lol. Granted, the more I learn, the more I realize there's soooo much stuff like this that gets referenced in anime and jrpgs. Lots of Pokemon are based on critters we've found in the fossil record. Some of the enemies in the Dark Souls games are based on living animals. And then folklore and history references *everywhere*.
It's friggin great
im glad i wasnt the only one 😂
So glad I saw that at 4:54 absolutely wild that FMA references this!
Muchas gracias por traducir estos videos, son muy interesantes.❤
An author, Frater Acher, explored a fascinating aspect of Paracelsian philosophy from a modern perspective in a book called Ingenium, which is the name of the organ that Paracelsus believed connected the physical body with the non-physical Self.
Fantastic video, as always!
I remember finding this on the ground as a child in the forest, thought it had to have came from something beyond as it seemed otherworldly
great video! that intro sound gets 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins stuck in my head every time though lol
Does your microscope hold a phone or have a camera, so we can capture well focused & aimed photos of the specimen?
Love it!
No Hank, thank you for sharing
Can’t help but think that multicellular life might have gotten its start from some kind of similar colony.
There can't be that many taxa named by occult alchemists! 😂
Paracelsus also invented the words "sylph", "gnome", and "undyne".
The "nostril" association might have been in reference to the shape of the macro colonies, which I've also heard described as "ear-like". That's just speculation on my part though.
Can also tie star jelly to H. P. Lovecraft, and his short story "The Color Out of Space", a personal favorite of mine.
Amazing Video :)
Haa! 4:50
That's one heck of a name.
😄👍
Love hank my favourite voice
Yep, it’s fair that Chinese eat just about anything. That dish is one of my favourites actually though I haven’t had it for a while.
It’s also eaten in Indonesian salads.
Love creation
uncreate creation and remake it in our own image.
😅😅😅well information good show 😅😅
Sooo from what I read on the wiki they have no clue what “Star Jelly” is to this day. You should try to find a sample (not Nostoc but the clear jelly)
Found a colony in my garden today
So thats what grows when i get alot of rain. I thought it was some kind of moss or algae.
been wondering what this stuff was while im gardening
I'm naming my first born Theophrastus Bombastus. What a sick name
Is this that one clear substance that fell from the sky one time and a bunch of people got sick, or is this something else? I might he misremembering.
What do they taste like?
Is this narrated by Hank Green?
I wonder if they ever tried growing it
I recognize your voice anywhere, Hank!
Quit telling me to buy your microscope when you don't have one!
Some people look to the stars for answers. I look to the puddles❤
Are they only found in5he the northern hemisphere. We dot see this here in southern hemisphere
edible durable typically unnoticeable
remarkable
This reminds me lf the star jelly from bee swarm simulator
So, it’s not actually dragon snot? My Nana totally lied to me. 😢
That's a ball of Nope for me. Gives me the damn Willies. Amazing...but nope.
I wonder if this is the origin for the biblical mana.
My star jelly is Magificent Bryozoan.
Most of the oxygen we breathe today is thanks to these boogers
Thankyou for putting this star snot name for me to rest. Stars are hot places so i font know why people would think this slimy stuff would be boogers from the cosmos. Just terrestrial Goldilocks warm n wet planets like earth !👽🌒 And eating it , yuck yucky yucky even more yuckier ths grose. Now ill meditate this thought away✨🌺🦠🌈⚡🍃🌟
Γηράσκω αεί διδασκόμενος
4:53 fma reference
Theofrastus Bombastus 🤙🤙
PARACELSUS MENTIONED
What
I bet your followers knows Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim more than the name Paracelcus.
Mr. Bombastus.
What proportion of nature is yuk
I didnt quite like this ulpoad, something was amiss and I Just cant put my finger up it.
22cm is more like 9 inches not a foot.
Haa!
That's not microscopic life it's toxic battery waste, quit putting it so close to your face
😅👍
What proportion of nature is yuk