Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2024
- We owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!
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"[They] provide us with every fifth breath we take..." Wow that phrasing really puts it into perspective.
Every fifth move you make.
Every fifth bond you break
Every fifth step you take
They'll be watching you.
Oh can't you see
Microscopically
How a diatom makes
Every fifth breath you take
Every fool’s heart aches with every fifth breath you take
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Oh wrong song.
This channel is an absolute treasure. Please keep this series going for as long as possible. Fantastic narration and use of wonky underwater sci-fi music and sounds effects lends to the authenticity of ride. Like hopping on the Magic School Bus and watching everything up close.
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You're right! It really is like the Magic School Bus =D
This is exactly what it feels like omg what a great comparison 😭😭😭
Only if Mrs. Frizzle chilled way the fuck down, haha
Yes!!!!!
I love how Hank Green is trying to not sound like Hank Green
Wow I didn't know he could go this slow. Its actually relaxing
Holy crap that's Hank?! I knew he sounded familiar!
Lol yea been dozing off at night listening to these videos... then wonder y I have such weird dreams 🤪
Love his History of Egypt with a nod to Mr T. "I pity the Khufu"
I had absolutely no idea that was him lmao
Diatoms: has oil
US: Looks like these diatoms need some *freedom*
Release the drones!
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US Military: How do we create microscopic M16's?
I'm dying😂
how are. We gonna aim at them even if we have small enough m16s
Andrew Huang is really the unsung hero of this channel... the music is always so perfect for the video and narration, calm, clear and reserved, good job man
I really wouldn't say unsung considering he has over 10 times the subscriber count of this channel but your absolutely right about his work being absolutely perfect for this.
Everyone's always commenting about the music, but honestly if it weren't for the comments I wouldn't have noticed there was any music. Maybe that means it is good
Narrators voice is familiar
@@limiv5272 I think so... You're hardly aware of it but I'm sure if they uploaded an episode without any music and just Hank we'd all notice something being off...
@@dude-jk2hn sounds like Q from star trek next gen...
This is my favorite series on TH-cam right now! Beautiful shots and writing 😍
Same! I love this channel so much.
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Hank showing off his range from excited and fast talking to interested, slower, smoother talking.
Nathanael Newton I loves the quirky music also
Is Mr green talking in this way because he's trying not to frighten the single cell organisms?
jffryh
Whisper softly into the puddle.
Somebody commented on one of their last videos that this was, 'Hank, after dark', and I just have to agree! lol
He sounds just like Mark Cerny doing the tech reveal of the Playstation 5.
@@BeaChapman The microbes are in Poland? Who is James?
@@jffryh James aka @JamsGerms, collects, films and keeps the petrie dishes of micro-organisms while living in Poland. However, Mr. Hank Green is in the USA with his family.
These little cuties are also important for dating rocks in geolgy! We see there cool silica structures in sedimentary rock sequences. They even form part of the makeup of chert! 😊
Nice to see them alive here though. Thank you for your video.
Most people would prefer dating human being instead.
Geology isn’t a real science!!!
@@TheEarthSausage Sir that's Astrology.
And they are called “Diatoms” because their frustules are always made of 2 halves that are nearly identical and interlocking. I say “nearly” because one side is slightly larger so that the other side can fit inside to form the interlock.
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Just like a soap box
@@mdsaad9716 Yes, but they _just barely_ overlap, and have filaments connecting them called "girdle bands." It is along this seam that diatoms separate when they undergo mitosis.
@@samiamrg7 wow! That's amazing. Seems like you have an in-depth knowledge on diatoms.
Can you please elaborate 3:01-3:30 where narrator explains the trade of ? (Like how do they get smaller?) I did not understand this part...
Mohammed saad Nah, just what I remember from highschool bio and a little wikipedia refresher.
You can read the wikipedia page on “frustule,” but I will try to explain it
Diatomaceous Earth is also a natural pesticide - the glass frustules cut up ants and other insects as they walk through, making it an impassible barrier.
Fascinating video, thanks for making this series.
Great for killing fleas and bed bugs.
It also covers the exoskeleton and suffocates them
It's also one of the two ingredients in dynamite, the other being nitroglycerine.
Wow, these little glass friends are rad as hell.
Everybody drop what you’re doing! Journey to the Microcosmos video.
sure hope nobody was feeding their newborn
My patients anaesthesia will last another 8 minutes.
*Hand off the wheel*
I dropped my girlfriend because I was doing her
Yes sir! piloting that plain can wait
every video you release brings me one step closer to buying a microscope and checking those little things out myself
I'm going to soon own a camera microscope for repairing circuit boards, and this will be a thing.
You’ll never regret it. Get the best you can afford. The ones for children claim 1000x so you can see bacteria, but their resolution is horrible. Microbiology is a great college major, and there will always be employment opportunities.
@@TheFinktron What are employment opportunities?
I'd love to use a 4k camera with hdmi on a 4k monitor attached to a microscope.
I remember when my mother bought me a microscope for my 11th birthday. It was the best gift she ever gave me.
@@TheFinktron Can you give some recommendations?
My heart fills with joy every time i see one of those videos. On top of being extremely aesthetically pleasing it's just so neat how all those microorganisms manage to function on such a small scale
Diatom: It's just so neat how all those macroorganisms manage to function on such a large scale!
I don't remember this part of Spore.
Cell Stage
They were those fractal-like round plants
It’s called the stage you don’t remember
Its called Thrive be revolutionarygamesstudio
@@Readun It was the best stage after the animal stage
As someone who works on them on a daily basis, I thank you for making this wonderful video.
Those tiny glass-encapsulated plants have remarkably complex shell (frustule) structures, with functions that are largely unknown to us (like how they use mucus and raphe to move).
I always love seeing them under the microscope in my labs :)
Can you recommend any books or material on the subject?
As a germinating medical student passerby, I suddenly became curious as to whether the raphe of diatoms and the raphe of the raphe nuclei both describe a similar structural shape. I also found the actin-myosin movement hypothesis very interesting. I really love your videos by the way for their beautiful background music, offerings of artful microscope views of the elegant, mysterious creatures you describe to us, and superb, delicious and insightful narration that awakens my curiosity of the microcosm. ^^
i have no idea what half the words you said were, but it’s clear you’re very passionate about what your studying :) it’s nice to see that, keep on keepin on!!!!
3:12 Well, _one_ of the daughter cells is going to be smaller. The frustule is composed of two almost identical sections called "thecae" that overlap a bit--basically an expansion joint. However, one theca is slightly smaller than the other. When a diatom divides, each daughter cell gets one of the theca (which will become the larger theca for that daughter cell) and then each produces a second (smaller) theca.
So, the daughter cell that gets the larger theca will be about the same size as the mother cell was.
Ya know this could have all just been avoided by making the given thecae the smaller one, so that they get progressively bigger over time.
@@mr.mercury4247 The larger it gets the more energy it'll need to sustain itself probably
the music, the narration, the imagery...no nonsense, nothing annoying - thank you !
This is like a cup of hot cocoa in a form of a pop-science show. Soothing.
I think you should also write a book with some of the imagery you have captured,. it would be a fantastic learning tool.
It's really not anything that you can't find in any microbiology or invertebrate zoology book.
@@zddxddyddw There are lots of coffee table books on natural science topics, which feature educational text but put much more of an emphasis on the beauty of the photography and illustrations than a textbook does. That kind of thing seems very on-brand for this channel, and there is definitely a market for it.
After an extremely vexing weekend, it is so very nice to see a video from this channel. It's so much nicer than the macro world. It's so much quieter than "big life." I sometimes wish to reincarnate as a diatom or something. Being human, these last few days, has really really sucked.
Thanks for making these videos. They make the larger world more bearable by drawing us into the smaller one and letting us remember why life is worth bothering with.
Hank's voice over and pacing is phenomenal, what a treat of a series.
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Let me correct you: "fometimes thefe videos can really furprise me with interesting facts!" (ca.1703) :P
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@@buzdug Oh snap! Was 1499 a page number? Haha, and now I've read about the "long s" (f). Thanks.
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Made the same error it seems ;)
@@Ebolaface I wonder how "Mr C" is spelled.
When I die I want Hank Green to do my eulogy.
"Chubby, misunderstood, and not immortal"
The best channel I've ever found about micro biologi.
Lector is perfect, speeking witch love and passion about the subject.
Visual representation is very clean and high quality, great job.
Background music is exactly as it shude be.
Thank you once again for your hard work.
Greetings from Poland.
"Through the Living Glass, and What James Found There"
I have no idea why the algorithm decided I might be interested in this channel. But I thank it for it.
I am ready to be scared of drinking water again
And in todays episode: living shards of glass
They aren't in your water. Except this morning when you brushed your teeth with billions of them.
Just think of it as billions of cute little cellular gems that are cozy inside of you 😚
Reverse osmosis filter should stop diatomes and all other creatures featured in the show. Their microscope is not good enough to show what filter can not stop.
@@BarafuAlbino diatoms are gigantic, you don't need anything like a reverse osmosis filter to remove them. The sand filters at the water treatment plant will remove all of them.
Bruh, muscular jewel plants. That's what I call an epic gamer moment.
How do they flex tho?
xdTechniker25 They flex their diamond armor onus
What is this "epic gamer moment" shit, more white kids trying to sound black?
@@Tenraiden saying epic is the whitest shit in 15 years guys, I don’t know what an epic gamer moment is, but I’d bet we could ask 100 black people and they’d not know, and 100 “white kids trying to act black” maybe 10 would know but they’d lie to save face.
You’re so far off that it was worth reading and thinking about...
People are.... interesting...
Or are you a bot?
You have one of the most pleasant to listen to voices ever. If all teachers were so engaging a lifetime of learning would be our ultimate goal
I appreciate this show so much, especially because it always puts things in my sometimes complicated, sometimes stupid macro life into perspective
" it always puts things in my sometimes complicated, sometimes stupid macro life into perspective "
Please tell us, that you do NOT plan to start moving, by oozing mucous ....
Thanks Hank and James! I'm learning a ton from this channel, as well as taking in a few zen moments.
These are the base of food chain in sea, everything from small arthropods to big whales feed on them. They sustain life in the sea
I hate to tell you this buddy but diatoms and phytoplankton are not the same thing.
Hank talking like this simultaneously amuses, relaxes, and disturbs me.
These videos make it easier to deal with the world today. Hank, your narration is soothing and patient and this content gives me something else to focus on. Thank you all for your work on MiCo.
You've shown so few shapes. They come in so many beautiful shapes.
Diatoms are the craziest thing I've heard of in, truly, years. I'm so glad they're a cool thing too!
This channel has totally impressed me. I like sciencey stuff but had no idea I'd be THIS into microscopic little dudes.
I feel that Hank becoming a dad made this style and delivery possible. It’s good storytelling for bedtime. I wish I was your son, Mr. G
I’ve heard Hank almost everyday for as long as I have the internet and I’m 29 now. So I guess a LONG time. My first www obsession, Vlogbrothers. But this, this is my favourite version of Hanks voice. Thank you Hank. You are a true hero.
Watching this is the microbiological equivalent of hearing Bob Ross' soft voice while he paints - top class, keep up the (relaxing) work
So we have Andrew Huang on the music and Hank Green of SciShow on the narration. Truly majestic.
Diatoms: Beautiful, good for the environment and thoroughly absorbent.
diatoms are what got me so into the "microcosmos" from a young age, I vividly remember seeing pictures of diatoms and thinking how beautiful they were.
This series is absolutely wonderful. Always looking forward to the next installment. Keep up the great work!
Wait what? 1/5 of the oxygen I have breathe in my entire life came form them... Thank you tiny little things.
Something about this channel hits a perfect balance of relaxation and education that I never knew existed. This is definitely Hank's best work.
Diatoms are my favorite unicellular organisms. I’ve seen beautiful art created using individual frustules. I’ve also sprinkled D.E. around my apartment to stop carpet beetles. They’re also so incredibly important to micropaleontology. Diatoms are just so great.
Was peacefully enjoying this video untill he said that these lil dudes had oil in them.
Now the US government is here to give me some freedom.
The war in Diatom.
It's already begun; microalgal biofuels are a thing
Actually diatoms are thought to be the main source of fossil oil. It's just from diatoms that lived millions of years ago.
Don't worry I hear that advanced science is making great breakthroughs in the use of live puppies as fuel.
Where do you think oil comes from? It’s microscopic plant and animals in the sea that create it. That’s why we don’t run out.
This channel is absolutely amazing, I hope it sees lots of growth. Keep it up!
This series has been so wholesome and educational! Absolutely loved diatoms in middle school biology, but I had no clue as to just how impressive they really are.
Thank you for sharing the love for these marvelous little beings!
The narrator's voice is so gentle and pleasant, he is probably the only person in the world that could sell me some outlandish idea such as "cockroaches are not the spawn of Satan".
On a serious note, this earth is absolutely mindblowing. There is magic everywhere, if only one has eyes to see it. Thank you for the videos.
I hate cockroaches in my house as much as anyone, but I found some in the garden, hanging out on plants, and they didn't look so disgusting there after all. :)
Microcosmos and the Valleyfolk are my two favorite channels on TH-cam currently, so that gives you an idea of my personality lol
Love this series! Thank you!
I really want more hosts to speak slowly and pause between sentences as you do in these videos. They're both deep and simplified to a degree I can comprehend this foreign world. Love them dearly. Thanks!!
This channel is the perfect antidote to the craziness of our world at the moment. I studied some microbiology for my medical degree but this channel has given me more love for our microscopic friends than I ever imagined possible! Thank you so much
Diatomaceous earth is also a very effective environmentally friendly insecticide.
This channel hits all the spots
I love this show!! Every episode get me so invested, and I always come away having learned at least a few new things. Thanks, Microcosmonauts!
Hank!! Your voice!! How can it be so sweet?
My husband as he looked over my shoulder: "Why is that rice running so fast?"
I love this episode! ♥️
this video is so meta. the narration, the images, the music... chefs kiss from me.
You literally can't make these videos fast enough for me. Absolutely captivating. Spellbinding, even.
HERE THEY ARE!!! HERE THEY ARE!!! I've been waiting for this!!! Diatoms are my absolute favorite microorganism, I love them. ;u;
Miria g
Beautiful creatures that *make Oxygen for us.* We can be happy to have them on our planet !
I cannot believe i stumbled upon this series! Please keep it coming! I love the information, the microCosmic close up and the voice of the narrator. So soothing and makes learning, relaxing, entertaining and just wowsome!
Thank you!!
Best show ever! Thank you all so much! ❤️
God damn i love this channel so much.
The background music and imagery remind me so much of the anime Mushishi. It's unreal.
One of the best and most atmospheric animated shows ever made
I love Hank's narration style
These videos are fantastic! The combination of beautiful photography and microscopy with the perfectly suited music, and inobtrusive but engaging narration that consistently provides novel and fascinating information about what the viewer is being shown result in top quality content. Time spent watching these videos is time very well spent.
Am I watching some kind of sciency asmr ? :o
Not only did they craft glass armour but they didn't even collect sand and smelt it for the glass...
AND THEY'RE NOT IN CREATIVE MODE EITHER! Just how?
They must be hacking...
They just used /give lmao
Another awesome video- thanks, team! And a special shout-out to Andrew Huang for his really great soundscapes- they are the perfect compliment to the videos and Hank's narrations!
just found this channel today and i fell in love!! the narration, the content, the sound effects, everything is really well made and thought, please never stop! it’s making my interest in microbiology grow even more(i’m majoring in bio)
watched the entire thing. very nice.
I had been longing for this episode.
I've built a simple microscope, I'll be visiting a pond soon.
Where is your vid on that? :)
@@TragoudistrosMPH 23 hours ain't quite enough time to make a video. I couldn't find any puddle of standing water so far but i did collect some moss. Haven't got around to check it yet.
@@TragoudistrosMPH -well you can make a Huygens Microscope very easy.
Not many knows, that looking through the 'wrong' lens of a binocular, will actually make it into a Microscope! (No i am not kidding!)
The first microscopes was handheld sea-monculars turned upside-down, and later they got fitted into a stand, that allowed them to be raised and lowered, with a set of cogwheels
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-If you get a cheap spottingscope, and detach the eye-piece, turn it upside-down and place it close to your eyes, you have a 'microscope' :)
These things are incredible. They are a beautiful reminder of how connected everything on our planet is. Every system, every living thing, every substance.
This film series is beautiful! I nominate it for most artistic portrayal of microscopic life in an educational video. Seriously, it is film festival worthy. Best work yet Hank Green.
This is beautiful, such an underrated channel.
learned it from high school : didnt remember shit
learned it from this channel : waw this will forever be remembered
Its amazing how much we depend on this tiny organism. They help provide us with the beer we drink on the Superbowl, the wine we drink when we take our wives out for dinner, and the cat litter that keeps our homes from smelling like an allyway. yet they know nothing of who we are and what we do to in our day to day lives, its important we treasure these micro gems and there roll in the world.
What a joy it is to explore these microcosms. Wonderful, enlightening, and Zen-like series. ☯️
They remind me of floaters that are on the surface of our eyes
OMG!! they're the minecraft beds!
There are some villagers fr*cking down there!
What
I love this new series by the SciShow team, thanks for making it free to watch on TH-cam!
The writing of this is surprisingly good. Thank you so much for this show
".. and also they're just really nice to look at." Yeah, I'd appreciate uploads of longer uncut footage to just zone out to
It's not exactly long but there's this th-cam.com/video/lcZCZFmoRMU/w-d-xo.html
Diatomaceous earth also helps us to produce dynamyte. 💣
Things can't get beautiful than this 😍😍😍😍😍 I'm very lucky to hv found this channel.... Thank you sooooooooooooooooo much Hank 💓💓💓💓
yay! I have searching for diatoms videos the past week. This is a treat!
Still waiting on you releasing still shots that I can use as wallpaper backgrounds
Amazing production, as usual! Here's some constructive criticism:
"[Diatoms] . . . move using the same molecular systems as us." Actin's involvement in motility doesn't constitute a "molecular system" on its own. IMO, the term "molecular system" would be more appropriate for something like flagella or actinomyosin, due to those structures having or associating with many types of protein subunits. Also, it would have been nice to hear the prevailing theories on diatom motility beyond just actin dun it (assuming there are any). Perhaps Microcosmos' discussions about biochem needs to be kept at a minimum since the focus is on microbio? Tangent: if you're not aware, check out the "actin rockets" of Listeria monocytogenes (th-cam.com/video/FIT0fdt6c3Y/w-d-xo.html @ 13:50) : )
Nitpicking aside, I'm in love with this channel. Thanks and keep it up!
The slow and relaxed, yet interest sparking, commentary combined with the amazing footage ist just perfect to watch stoned👌✌️
Their frustules are extraordinarily fascinating, both as structures biologically manufactured by microscopic organisms out of silica & as stunningly beautiful examples of mathematical - & especially fractal - symmetries.
As you alluded to, they are actually extremely porous, with the frustule surfaces of some species composed of a pseudo-honeycomb of perfectly circular holes (themselves filled with even tinier hole mesh patterns) organised to use the space in the most optimum arrangement possible.
They're also being investigated by scientists for the optic effects (similiar to that of a butterfly's wing) that are produced by these porous structures, as well as the long-term potential of using genetically engineered organisms (perhaps derived from Diatoms) to make both nanoscale & macroscale structures using biologically derived silicates. eg: Structures composed of soap-bubble thin silicate films, stacked in layers of varying porousity, which could be used to purify water for drinking.
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How badly their numbers - & necessary oxygen output - are going to be affected by Global Warming induced Ocean Acidification, is also a major concern.
Tardi- BUDDIES ON THE MOON
I'm wondering if they move though a similar system as airplanes. Maybe the mucus they excrete somehow reduces the fluid pressure in front of them causing the pressure behind them to push them forward.
Thank you for teaching about microscopy. Ive always been fascinated by biology. So this channel is a true gem to me. Thanks hank. And thanks for what youve done on PBS
Thanks for using the coloring to point out the oil bubbles, it's much easier to see what you're referring to now!