Erozion 8 microbiology is such an awesome subject it’s really amazing how organisms so small we can’t see them without a microscope can have such profound impacts on human health
You didn't mention the microbe eating away at our plastic problem. Seems a little wider spread in terms of saving the environment, but then again you'd have a documentary if you were going through all the helpful ones.
@@saintsyndicate5435 Well, it's not really about how much they are helping now, as opposed to how much they **might** help in the future. It's not something we are really using yet.
@@MartinFinnerup you know what else (might help) not littering and enforcing the laws but that's not going to happen, so what makes you think they'll follow through with utilizing such a microbe/tool, I'm a realist and realisticly we already placed the straw to break the camels back so now we get wait and see the cosquences till then stay happy and live life to the fullest because 5 generations from now the world will most probably be ashes or on fire so eh
4:02 hold up, you mean to tell me there was a place other than Antarctica where mosquitoes didn’t live and people willingly brought them there? Wtf humanity?
Cracked Emerald no they have always lived in Alaska🤷♂️. Differ t types of mosquitoes. Pro tip. Hate mosquitoes buy a Thermacell. Best money I’ve ever spent they give you a 15x 15 ft area of no mosquitoes. Works in Alaska so it should work anywhere with mosquitoes. We have times where the mosquitoes are so think you go insane but thermacell creates a invisible area they don’t want to come near so keep in on you or near you.
Having first heard about the microbiota-brain axis in a lecture, I think we should also take a moment to appreciate how gut microbiota keep us healthy. Although the precise interplay is not clear, it seems like that certain bacteria in our gut impact decrease risk of acquiring certain neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease. Species of the genus Akkemansia might even increase the efficiency of anti-cancer treatments (I made a video about this some weeks ago)! Really astonishing how much we still can learn, right?
Life Lab Learner the gut microbiota is fascinating it’s incredible how much they affect our behavior and that’s just bacteria, we also have viromes of all different viruses in us as well
I have a friend who’s chemical engineering dissertation was on microbes that could digest rubber because recycling car tires is kind of near impossible. She’s very risk averse so I remember that at some point someone from a Chinese university wasn’t sure how to get a sample of “bugs” through customs so they posted her a book with a like sample bag bookmark. She must’ve thought it was anthrax because she autoclave’d the whole package! I think the mechanical engineers would have just yolo’d with it but maybe there’s a reason that we didn’t get an autoclave (the undergrads are savages who would probably try to make extremely grilled cheese or something)
Would be cool if scishow did a video on how plant propagation actually works. As well as plant cloning. It's always been a slight fascination on how my teddy bear vine cuttings will reroot and start to grow another vine. I got the plant about 12 years ago and it's still going strong.
Hank, how did you not mention The Journey to the Microcosmos? Rest of you, if you haven't seen that channel yet - go sub now! Narrated by Hank as well, but in a calm voice (yep, he has that), and each video there is indeed an incredible journey into the microbes lives! And yes, there's a vid of tardigrades having sex. Hurry up before TH-cam takes it down!
I’ve always been fascinated by the transferring of gut bacteria. Just imagine, people getting cross pollinated with kuala gut bacteria. Then they’d be able to eat eucalyptus leaves without dying. I mean, the ability to just turn anything into food just seems like it has far more implications. Than anything else named in the vid.
I don't recall when or where I read it, or who wrote it, but many years ago I read a science fiction story where we'd created a way for humans to digest cellulose, whereupon humanity basically wiped out all the forests.
Wolbachia? Like, the bacteria I treat heartworm-positive dogs for to weaken their heartworms before we start the more traditional heartworm treatment? Fascinating.
"Oh, so this is gonna be about practical biological warfare." "This bacteria actually strengthens the mosquitoes immune system!" "Ah, so it'll be about helpful bacteria, gotcha." "Also, this makes mussels explode from the inside!"
When one of the tress removes TCE from the ground, what happens to the TCE? Does it get converted into something harmless, or does it re-enter the soil when the tree eventually dies (or air if it is burned)?
detergent ads made us feel that all bacteria are bad, and games made us feel that every creature that looks scary are born to attack us frantically without any need to consider its own survival
At 2:06, habitat loss is driven mostly by increased agriculture. The land taken by urbanization is almost insignificant. Also, Australia has frequent wildfires. In prior decades, they have been much worse. Over 100 people were arrested in the last few months in Australia for setting some of these fires. So there is no proof that these fires were caused by climate change.
I think the concern for any tampering with nature is that a microbe may do good for certain things, but what if the microbe affects something else? Something else could be adversely affected by certain microbes artificially introduced for another concern. Then the balance game - Does the good outweigh the harm? Thank you for sharing helpful and informative videos!
bonobos.com/products/washed-button-down-cshrt00551?color=heather grey giraffes Edited to add: I don't know why the link is weird, I just copy/pasted it. Anyway, go to bonobos.com and search "giraffe." Several color and print options.
As someone who grew up about a mile from the Lake Michigan shore, let me just say: eff zebra mussels. They eat so much that they throw the plankton balance out of whack, leading to this one algae growing like crazy. When this algae washes up on shore in hugs amounts and starts to decay, it literally smells like raw sewage. The stench is so strong that if you walked outside or opened a window where I grew up, it was like sticking your head in a sewer. So many summer days were ruined because it just stunk too damn much to go outside. You go, P. fluorescens- take these smelly buggers down!
Yes too sterile causes an inability to fight imbalances and microbial balance is a big key to healthy body function and also a key to curing depression ...well some forms.
I know one of those superfund sites in Dallas. They marked one on Lemmon Avenue as a Texas Instrument problem. But they had a dry cleaner next door dumping TCE for 40 years. But because it was a black site site with with weird things like a million pounds of lead buried 300 feet underground and the invention of the microchip, people didn’t want to inventory what went on there. Now the dry cleaner has been replaced by the gayest Home Depot in Dallas. They still use the block of lead to calibrate gravimeters.
No thanks. :P But fecal transplants for humans are definitely a thing, especially for people whose gut microbiome got wiped out from aggressive antibiotics.
@@rin_okami I heard it's mostly used for nasty C Difficile infections. They aren't the best at competing with the other bacteria, but they can resist chemicals (eg antibiotics) like no other.
I wondered what happened to the igNobel award-winning study with rubbish-eating panda poop, or rather bacteria isolated from it. It seemed like it might be a hopeful way to deal with rubbish, reducing domestic waste by 80-90%, presumably including plastic rubbish!? I wondered if other animals eating tough plants, including other smaller members of the grass family, had similarly powerful bacteria hiding away. Mealworms happily eat polystyrene/styrofoam, and that's something to do with gut bacteria as well. I mean dung can have environmental consequences when mass released, as can bacteria. The bacteria behind the orange grime on shower curtains was experimentally mass released over an area in America and it had long term ecological and health consequences. It always surprises me however that plastic being essentially just hydrocarbon like everything else has less microbial breakdown and that nothing significant has evolved in order to take advantage of the energy source that is now so ubiquitous, and thus break it down. I have a feeling that some refuse tips have got some plastic breakdown going on. I don't know if anyone is checking!?
Sadly, the bird you showed in Hawaii is an invasive species - the common mynah from India. And it may have brought Avian Malaria with it when it was introduced in the 1860’s.
I was hoping to hear that a microbe had been discovered or engineered to breakdown all the plastics in landfill. Don’t know that it’s true, but I read that such microbes had been discovered but oil companies stopped their production in fear of contaminating plastics in use.
*Cientist runs into the room - We did it, we finally did it. We found a solution, we can save your species. *everyone sighs and cries in relief and joy - here, eat this other creature's poop ... .. .
Your ad - you meant to say STEAM Skills, not STEM - Arts are invaluable. It’s one thing to be able to recall facts, another to creatively visualise ways to employ this knowledge.
The urge to wash excessively or go aggressive with antibiotics is not always a great idea, not just because of antibiotic resistance, but because we are an ecosystem in every orifice and on the surface of our skin as well as in our gut, we are symbiotes, the skin is symbiotic too. I don't really like the idea of my body as a theatre of war for microbes, with my immune system forming massively complex allyships, tolerances, attacks and so on. But essentially? That's what it is.
Microbes aren't saving the environment, or protecting the environment - they *are* the environment. Rock on, little buddies.
microbes make wine whiner
Microbes are the real mvps
What isn't the environment?
@@philipwipernickle4780 plastic.
@@cameoshadowness7757 it is now
I'm studying microbiology and other biology sub-fields and love learning this kind of stuff!
Erozion 8 microbiology is such an awesome subject it’s really amazing how organisms so small we can’t see them without a microscope can have such profound impacts on human health
Hold up, you're telling me there were MOSQUITO FREE paradise islands out there and we RUINED it?
It wasn't us,it was the pacific islanders.
@Joku Toinen We haven't ruined the Sun.
...Yet.
@@csweezey18 we still probably didn't ruin mars.
If I remember it right, there were also no flies in Australia until Europeans came
@@gabriel300010 I mean... it's the only planet we know of that is completely inhabited by robots...
1:15
Koalas are notoriously picky eaters and they're also notoriously adorable
They are also notoriously riddled with STDs. You're welcome.
@@steelinskin5925 Who would have sex with a koala though?
They’re also notoriously small brained
Like they’re the dumbest mammals
@@noshua2326 -Then why aren't they writing comments ?
I love your positive news stories. Makes me feel like I’m living in a time that isn’t so awful.
5:52 "Invasive mussels are a huge problem."
Muscle Hank: angry muscle noises...
You beat me to this comment
RIP muscle Hank
This channel and its sister channels are THE best. And microcosmos is truely a blessing!
You didn't mention the microbe eating away at our plastic problem. Seems a little wider spread in terms of saving the environment, but then again you'd have a documentary if you were going through all the helpful ones.
I expected to see that too
If i remember correctly they have already gone over that in a previous video.
@@garretth8224 they have and the microbes don't make too much of a difference with our plastic problem
@@saintsyndicate5435 Well, it's not really about how much they are helping now, as opposed to how much they **might** help in the future.
It's not something we are really using yet.
@@MartinFinnerup you know what else (might help) not littering and enforcing the laws but that's not going to happen, so what makes you think they'll follow through with utilizing such a microbe/tool, I'm a realist and realisticly we already placed the straw to break the camels back so now we get wait and see the cosquences till then stay happy and live life to the fullest because 5 generations from now the world will most probably be ashes or on fire so eh
4:02 hold up, you mean to tell me there was a place other than Antarctica where mosquitoes didn’t live and people willingly brought them there? Wtf humanity?
Didn't mosquitoes only live in the continental tropics?
Cracked Emerald no they have always lived in Alaska🤷♂️. Differ t types of mosquitoes. Pro tip. Hate mosquitoes buy a Thermacell. Best money I’ve ever spent they give you a 15x 15 ft area of no mosquitoes. Works in Alaska so it should work anywhere with mosquitoes. We have times where the mosquitoes are so think you go insane but thermacell creates a invisible area they don’t want to come near so keep in on you or near you.
@@MatanuskaHIGH Appreciate the suggestion. In Texas we definitely have mosquitoes, and everything they carry. Thanks.
Dan Ryan I swear by it.
"Wolbachia" *Kojima intensifies*
I had to pause the video and spend a moment wondering if I had remembered correctly but yep, sure enough.
"Life imitates art"
What do you call a microbe on your spine?
Backteria
Bravo
A lot of these remind me of Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. He's got every disease at once so none of them can kill him.
"So your saying I'm invincible!"
"No! Even the slightest..."
"So I'm invincible."
Poplar is a great wood for guitars as well. Poplar burl is gorgeous.
Having first heard about the microbiota-brain axis in a lecture, I think we should also take a moment to appreciate how gut microbiota keep us healthy. Although the precise interplay is not clear, it seems like that certain bacteria in our gut impact decrease risk of acquiring certain neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease. Species of the genus Akkemansia might even increase the efficiency of anti-cancer treatments (I made a video about this some weeks ago)! Really astonishing how much we still can learn, right?
Life Lab Learner the gut microbiota is fascinating it’s incredible how much they affect our behavior and that’s just bacteria, we also have viromes of all different viruses in us as well
Australia WAS full of eucalyptus trees :(
Aren't they extra flammable ? Seems like I've heard that, their oil or something.
@@christelheadington1136 they're kind of designed to start fires so their seeds can sprout
Is this an argument against Koala?
All the fires create ALOT of nutrient rich soil in the future to grow more in. Ashes are really nice for that after a fire.
Wrong, Australia is mostly full of sand
I have a friend who’s chemical engineering dissertation was on microbes that could digest rubber because recycling car tires is kind of near impossible. She’s very risk averse so I remember that at some point someone from a Chinese university wasn’t sure how to get a sample of “bugs” through customs so they posted her a book with a like sample bag bookmark. She must’ve thought it was anthrax because she autoclave’d the whole package! I think the mechanical engineers would have just yolo’d with it but maybe there’s a reason that we didn’t get an autoclave (the undergrads are savages who would probably try to make extremely grilled cheese or something)
Hmm, this makes me think of what happened with coronavirus. Sending microbes in a book to evade customs seems astonishingly reckless.
Wow he didn’t plug his channel Journey to the Microcosmos that’s about microbes in this video.
What a humble guy.
It's in the i thingy.
"Australia is full eucalyptus trees"
Or, it was anyway...
Oh no you did not.
Also the number of au-naturel barbequed koala buffets is higher than ever before
I’m taking AP biology. To see the sheer variety of sub fields within biology makes my head spin.
Would be cool if scishow did a video on how plant propagation actually works. As well as plant cloning. It's always been a slight fascination on how my teddy bear vine cuttings will reroot and start to grow another vine. I got the plant about 12 years ago and it's still going strong.
I was hoping you would talk about the ones eating radiation in Chernobyl or the ones eating plastic in the ocean
Thank you! A hug from Honduras!
Hank, how did you not mention The Journey to the Microcosmos? Rest of you, if you haven't seen that channel yet - go sub now! Narrated by Hank as well, but in a calm voice (yep, he has that), and each video there is indeed an incredible journey into the microbes lives! And yes, there's a vid of tardigrades having sex. Hurry up before TH-cam takes it down!
Why would they take it down?
Tiny Valkyrie it’s a joke.
Hey scishow I have a class and we were talking about blood types and I was wondering how did blood types evolve and why do we have them?
They already did like 6 or so episodes on this. Go to the Sci Show channel page and type "Blood Type" into the search field.
You're welcome.
there's also a PBS eons episode about how blood evolved in the first place that's really cool!
I’ve always been fascinated by the transferring of gut bacteria. Just imagine, people getting cross pollinated with kuala gut bacteria. Then they’d be able to eat eucalyptus leaves without dying. I mean, the ability to just turn anything into food just seems like it has far more implications. Than anything else named in the vid.
I don't recall when or where I read it, or who wrote it, but many years ago I read a science fiction story where we'd created a way for humans to digest cellulose, whereupon humanity basically wiped out all the forests.
@@lrfcowper that’s assuming that if we could eat wood we would. Only would be useful in 3rd world countries
Wolbachia? Like, the bacteria I treat heartworm-positive dogs for to weaken their heartworms before we start the more traditional heartworm treatment? Fascinating.
Saving koalas with crapsules.
One other fungus changed the course of medical history: Penicillium
It's nice to mention also bacteria that break down plastic
Love the giraffe shirt
....and the video
Aaahhhh giraffe shirt!!! I love it!
Awesome content. Thanks!
"Oh, so this is gonna be about practical biological warfare."
"This bacteria actually strengthens the mosquitoes immune system!"
"Ah, so it'll be about helpful bacteria, gotcha."
"Also, this makes mussels explode from the inside!"
Love love loovvveed this episode.
Bes scientific youtube channel! Cheers from Germany
I was gonna comment but I am not koalafied.
"Although it can short birds lives, it can't kill them". I Ithought that was the definition of killing. hahahahahha
Absolutely love his shirt!
Amazing report. Keep up the great work :-)
Awesome shirt, Hank
Oh those poor coral 😱😭 & those other poor animals!!
Great episode love to see more on microbes
That's a marvelous shirt, Hank!
Muscle-free beaches, you say? Not if Muscle Hank has anything to do about it!
We're finally realizing that we didn't need to invent nanites (or nanomachines) they've already been there all along.
The host is very friendly and funny
great video
Some types of microbes are undoubtedly the earth's unsung heroes at a microscopic level.
Like this one thanks Flint Michigan could use this too
This video is my damn jam
OMG - I love your giraffe shirt.... Oh, it was an interesting talk too.
Fosters is Australian for beer and Messmate is Australian for coffee-whitener.
When one of the tress removes TCE from the ground, what happens to the TCE? Does it get converted into something harmless, or does it re-enter the soil when the tree eventually dies (or air if it is burned)?
8:01 Dammit, I tried to find that illustration from bogleech about Kermit's last days, but it seems to've disappeared from the web.
Great power comes with great responsibility...
detergent ads made us feel that all bacteria are bad, and games made us feel that every creature that looks scary are born to attack us frantically without any need to consider its own survival
At 2:06, habitat loss is driven mostly by increased agriculture. The land taken by urbanization is almost insignificant. Also, Australia has frequent wildfires. In prior decades, they have been much worse. Over 100 people were arrested in the last few months in Australia for setting some of these fires. So there is no proof that these fires were caused by climate change.
Nice giraffes, Hank. Also, your hair looks very smooth.
I think the concern for any tampering with nature is that a microbe may do good for certain things, but what if the microbe affects something else? Something else could be adversely affected by certain microbes artificially introduced for another concern.
Then the balance game - Does the good outweigh the harm?
Thank you for sharing helpful and informative videos!
That shirt is awesome! Where can I get it?
bonobos.com/products/washed-button-down-cshrt00551?color=heather grey giraffes
Edited to add: I don't know why the link is weird, I just copy/pasted it. Anyway, go to bonobos.com and search "giraffe." Several color and print options.
@@sujimtangerines Thank you! This is truly what the internet is for.
You know he was thinking of Prof Farnsworth when he said good news! I was expecting everyone 😂
Aussies love their koalas, so I think you can rely upon them to ensure their survival.
Awesome shirt
I love that shirt
Microbes saving the planet from disaster.
Giraffe shirt! Yes!
U should do a paradox video
As someone who grew up about a mile from the Lake Michigan shore, let me just say: eff zebra mussels. They eat so much that they throw the plankton balance out of whack, leading to this one algae growing like crazy. When this algae washes up on shore in hugs amounts and starts to decay, it literally smells like raw sewage. The stench is so strong that if you walked outside or opened a window where I grew up, it was like sticking your head in a sewer. So many summer days were ruined because it just stunk too damn much to go outside. You go, P. fluorescens- take these smelly buggers down!
Yes too sterile causes an inability to fight imbalances and microbial balance is a big key to healthy body function and also a key to curing depression ...well some forms.
I already knew about the koala poop thing. From anime of course.
Seton Academy?
I know one of those superfund sites in Dallas. They marked one on Lemmon Avenue as a Texas Instrument problem. But they had a dry cleaner next door dumping TCE for 40 years. But because it was a black site site with with weird things like a million pounds of lead buried 300 feet underground and the invention of the microchip, people didn’t want to inventory what went on there. Now the dry cleaner has been replaced by the gayest Home Depot in Dallas. They still use the block of lead to calibrate gravimeters.
Make a video about Paul Stamets please.
What if we eat pap?
*Big Brain Time*
No thanks. :P
But fecal transplants for humans are definitely a thing, especially for people whose gut microbiome got wiped out from aggressive antibiotics.
@@rin_okami I heard it's mostly used for nasty C Difficile infections. They aren't the best at competing with the other bacteria, but they can resist chemicals (eg antibiotics) like no other.
@@pierrecurie that sounds scary
I wondered what happened to the igNobel award-winning study with rubbish-eating panda poop, or rather bacteria isolated from it. It seemed like it might be a hopeful way to deal with rubbish, reducing domestic waste by 80-90%, presumably including plastic rubbish!? I wondered if other animals eating tough plants, including other smaller members of the grass family, had similarly powerful bacteria hiding away.
Mealworms happily eat polystyrene/styrofoam, and that's something to do with gut bacteria as well. I mean dung can have environmental consequences when mass released, as can bacteria. The bacteria behind the orange grime on shower curtains was experimentally mass released over an area in America and it had long term ecological and health consequences. It always surprises me however that plastic being essentially just hydrocarbon like everything else has less microbial breakdown and that nothing significant has evolved in order to take advantage of the energy source that is now so ubiquitous, and thus break it down. I have a feeling that some refuse tips have got some plastic breakdown going on. I don't know if anyone is checking!?
That was the smoothest segue into an ad that I've seen in a long time
@Evi1M4chine good thing or not it was a good segue
Sadly, the bird you showed in Hawaii is an invasive species - the common mynah from India. And it may have brought Avian Malaria with it when it was introduced in the 1860’s.
Hank, where did you get that shirt!?
I love that giraffe shirt.. I need one
Oh man the Hawaiian birbs story is so sad 😭
This is just biowarfare to a neat degree
I wonder if the zebra mussels are part of the reason the Great lakes cleaned up. They are filter cleaners?
I love it when microbes make my yogurt yogurty and my cheese cheesy, but I hate it when they make my yogurt cheesy.
I was hoping to hear that a microbe had been discovered or engineered to breakdown all the plastics in landfill. Don’t know that it’s true, but I read that such microbes had been discovered but oil companies stopped their production in fear of contaminating plastics in use.
WOLBACHIA
Good News! Your aunt Euphemia died and left you her collection of rare Microbes.
The spice melange!
"muscle free beaches"... the "people" watchers are gonna love that
I want his shirt, I like it
*Cientist runs into the room
- We did it, we finally did it. We found a solution, we can save your species.
*everyone sighs and cries in relief and joy
- here, eat this other creature's poop
...
..
.
3:15 there's room here for more research....shows picture of SLEEPING koala...lol
"Help keep corals afloat"... they are attached to the ground.
They make your yogurt yogurty, you cheese cheesy and your life life lively.
I wonder what kind of microbes make Hank so cheesey?
o.0
Microbes: "Well maybe I don't wanna be the bad guy anymore"
Did anybody watch that episode on South Park?
About the poop transplants..
Your ad - you meant to say STEAM Skills, not STEM - Arts are invaluable. It’s one thing to be able to recall facts, another to creatively visualise ways to employ this knowledge.
yummmy... pap. We love subs, even pap subs!
Thanks microbes! Sorry about the hand sanitizer.
The urge to wash excessively or go aggressive with antibiotics is not always a great idea, not just because of antibiotic resistance, but because we are an ecosystem in every orifice and on the surface of our skin as well as in our gut, we are symbiotes, the skin is symbiotic too. I don't really like the idea of my body as a theatre of war for microbes, with my immune system forming massively complex allyships, tolerances, attacks and so on. But essentially? That's what it is.
Will the "brilliant courses", help land a job, or any kind of "credits" towards my degree?