Season 1
30 episodes · Jun 24, 2019
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- S1E1
Meet the Microcosmos
Jun 24, 201910mJoin us on the first episode of Journey to the Microcosmos as we take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green, we hope to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey!
- S1E2
How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch
Jul 1, 201910mOn this week's journey, we explore the ways things eat in the microcosmos, from Stentors filter feeding to Dileptus hunting down and absorbing its prey.
- S1E3
Stentors: Single-Celled Giants
Jul 8, 201910mIt's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE!
- S1E4
How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?
Jul 15, 201910mHow do stentors make more stentors? Does Paramecium reproduce sexually or asexually? Find out on this week's journey as we explore the ways the microcosmos reproduce!
- S1E5
Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory
Jul 22, 201910m1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and ask the question, "Are our cells more than ourselves?"
- S1E6
Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
Jul 29, 201910mWe know these cute little water bears can survive the vacuum of space but are they actually immortal? We'll explore that and other misconceptions about tardigrades in this week's journey!
- S1E7
How Do Protozoa Get Around?
Aug 5, 201910mIf you were a protozoan, how would you zoom zoom zoom all around the microcosmos? From false feet to microtubules, find out how these single-celled eukaryotes make their way through the universe.
- S1E8
Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
Aug 12, 201910mWe 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!
- S1E9
Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures
Aug 20, 201910mLet's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.
- S1E10
How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?
Aug 26, 201910mIn the microcosmos, it's dangerous to go alone. This week we go on a journey into colonies to find out why sticking together is such a great strategy!
- S1E11
Death in the Microcosmos
Sep 2, 201910mDeath is inevitable and mysterious, even in the microcosmos. Stentors, heliozoans, and yes, even tardigrades, experience death in many different ways.
- S1E12
Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters
Sep 9, 201910mEuglenoids have had a very, very long time to evolve, and that has led to the things they have evolved into being extremely diverse—so diverse that, combined with the varied shape-shifting abilities of its member species, euglenoids have proven challenging to both identify and classify.
- S1E13
Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal
Sep 16, 201910mThe hydra of mythology may not be as far off from reality as you think! Let's take a journey to the mall to meet our tentacled, regenerating friends!
- S1E14
Relax and Enjoy the View
Sep 23, 201910mThis week, we're taking a bit of a break, but we thought you might also like one. So, today, let's all just sit and look at our lovely little friends while we take a breath and enjoy Andrew Huang's amazing music.
- S1E15
Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted
Oct 1, 201910mSlimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life...a challenge it conquered.
- S1E16
Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
Oct 7, 201910mWe also don't really know what rotifers are... but we'll try to tell you as much as we know!
- S1E17
The Microscopic Circle of Life
Oct 14, 201910mLife is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific physical and chemical situations. And this planet has a dizzying variety of such circumstances that, over millions or even billions of years, living chemical systems have evolved to thrive in.
- S1E18
Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters
Oct 21, 201910mYes, they might eat your brain, but there's a lot more to amoebas than that!
- S1E19
The Colors of the Microcosmos
Oct 28, 201910mWe see the colors of the microcosmos every single week, but let's stop and ask why our some microbes are bright green, while others are a golden brown.
- S1E20
Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades
Nov 4, 201910mThis week, the microcosmos meet the cosmos as we explore even more fascinating things about our friend, the tardigrade. We'll discuss their weird weird mouths, how we take care of our tardigrades, and what's going to happen to those tardigrades that crashed into the moon.
- S1E21
Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?
Nov 11, 201910mWhere is the line between good and bad microorganisms and why do we seem to know so much more about the bad ones?
- S1E22
Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates
Nov 18, 201910mThese world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.
- S1E23
Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink
Nov 25, 201910mMicrobes are used for everything from baking to brewing, but wastewater treatment is where they do some of their most important work.
- S1E25
What Humans and Stentors Have in Common
Dec 9, 201910mThis week, we're diving back into the world of Stentors to find out what humans and Stentors have in common!
- S1E26
Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers
Dec 16, 201910mThese little hairy-bellied friends lead a very interesting life, albeit a short one.
- S1E27
We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?
Dec 23, 201910mThis week's journey comes to you unedited and in real-time as we explore a mysterious infection.
- S1E28
What If All the Microbes Disappeared?
Dec 31, 201910mIn a world without microbes, this channel wouldn't exist. But there are other, more important things that would stop existing as well, and today we're going to explore just what could survive a world without our little micro friends, and for how long.