Floating Cities of Scum

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10 ай бұрын

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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@geoff5623 10 ай бұрын

My family scooped the floating algae off the pond with a rake and spread it on the vegetable garden paths to dry out and smother any weeds (grass clippings went on the paths too). Eventually it got tilled into the soil to break down as compost.

@jose.montojah 10 ай бұрын

That _rebel scum!_ Making a stand against necropolitics and extinction, I guess.

@StopItGarrison 10 ай бұрын

Wowee. I'm gay btw.

@beniciounfiltered7861 10 ай бұрын

@@StopItGarrison what is something else about you? Sure hope it’s not gross!

@StopItGarrison 10 ай бұрын

@@beniciounfiltered7861 Well, one thing is that I'm an Eagle Scout. I also have 2 dogs. -and I'm gay.-

@NormaEugene 10 ай бұрын

@@StopItGarrison😂

@HellOnWheel 10 ай бұрын

I was just typing "sometimes I wish I lived in pond scum", then I got to the part about being poisoned and suffocated by algae.

@NewMessage 10 ай бұрын

I always wondered how the term 'scumbag' came to be... Who was collecting bags of scum? But it's clear to me now it must have been a biologist with a new microscope.

@beniciounfiltered7861 10 ай бұрын

@@brianbisconer863 that’s hilarious, I gotta start saying scumbag now

@riderinsanjose337 9 ай бұрын

@@brianbisconer863Also known as a Coney Island Whitefish.

@jayl5032 10 ай бұрын

Since pond scum is algae threads, I wonder if they have any textile or artistic uses. I wonder if it could be dried, worked, and formed into a spool. Or maybe the scum could be made into bricks for building mats for virtually anything. Hmm..

@elevown 10 ай бұрын

I dont know about in america but in the UK scum is STILL used commonly to describe the nasty froth you will get when boiling certain foods that you need to scoop off as you go. And also sometimes for stuff floating on water in like ponds. Not man made stuff but like bio-films/froth.

@redofthewolves 10 ай бұрын

The most common thing I can think of that needs that is pasta, and over here we would probably use the word foam for the starchy bubbly mess

@kellydalstok8900 10 ай бұрын

@@redofthewolvesalso when you’re boiling broth with a marrow bone, or even just meat, scum will form on top.

@elevown 10 ай бұрын

@@kellydalstok8900 Thats the main one im familiar with- boiling certain meats like when making stew etc

@Ziorac 10 ай бұрын

That explains why I've always also thought of it as meaning icky froth..... Scum scoops and all that.

@andrewfleenor7459 10 ай бұрын

USian here. I'm definitely used to those usages.

@TheREAL.BrandOnShow 10 ай бұрын

Sarah, Your narreration is amazing!

@krose6451 8 ай бұрын

So much eye candy in this video. Who knew scum could be so beautiful ❤

@Popbot 10 ай бұрын

i really really love these videos. especially how much care seems to go into the audio. the generative modular patches from audrew huang combined with the subtle reverb on the voiceover really contributes to the amazing vibe. Especially the music; its subtle textures make it sound like i've actually been shrunk down to the scale of the microcosms.

@brianedwards7142 10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Spore.

@jose.montojah 10 ай бұрын

That _rebel scum!_ Making a stand against necropolitics and extinction, I guess.

@mrrp405 10 ай бұрын

I think it’s a tad too echoey on this voiceover, but otherwise true

@sciencenerd7639 10 ай бұрын

It's great to hear Sarah as narrator on this video. Perfect voice for science video narration. Great video, thanks so much!

@Shnarfbird 10 ай бұрын

@@brianbisconer863 She narrates good, brian, so not... really applicable this time?

@jessearnivas 10 ай бұрын

@@brianbisconer863brain worms

@mrrp405 10 ай бұрын

@@brianbisconer863 what

@synthetic_ivy 10 ай бұрын

im sorry about your diagnosis @@brianbisconer863

@crow-jane 10 ай бұрын

@@brianbisconer863Brian, you absolute child, Hank is recovering from cancer treatment and doesn’t owe you a damned thing. How staggeringly selfish.

@phasm42 10 ай бұрын

"... anything could be there." Ron DeSantis' face emerges from the muck.

@quitlife9279 10 ай бұрын

I feel like there's another part of the story that is missing. Why do the floating mats eventually die off on their own when they seemingly have everything they need at the surface, plenty of sunlight and gases, so why aren't there permanent algal mats covering lakes and oceans?

@alphaamoeba 10 ай бұрын

The forbidden pesto

@technopoptart 10 ай бұрын

look, everything is edible once, ok?

@StayPrimal 10 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Microcosmos you rock!

@valeriog8780 10 ай бұрын

I love these video, their biological informations and their scientific and philosophical considerations. Good job! ❤

@nicevideomancanada 10 ай бұрын

This summer in my city many trees are dying due to a lack of water. There is a class one watering ban on ATM due to the drought so the trees can't be watered, so as a result many public trees are dead and dying. We have 2 local ponds with a lot of water in them but I have heard that we can't use this water due to algae toxins that caused the trees to die. Any Suggestions?

@RandomSwiftie13 9 ай бұрын

I want this woman to describe micro world creatures as if she is describing them as a horror story.

@clemarusjr 10 ай бұрын

when you said "people like you..." I was like alright PBS

@michaelbuelow9275 10 ай бұрын

I think Sarah Suta is an excellent presenter. Her low, well modulated, voice is almost hypnotic.

@technopoptart 10 ай бұрын

i agree~

@Zantjez 10 ай бұрын

i guess i have different ears, i find her voice to strong, to hard, to much german like.

@homeamar78 10 ай бұрын

Best microbiology videos😊

@daniell1483 10 ай бұрын

If we humans try taking the balance of the world into our hands, we must also take the responsibility for using wisdom to guide our decisions. And whatever the outcome, intended or not, is our responsibility.

@EyesOfByes 10 ай бұрын

1:33 OHH! It's still that meaning in Swedish. I learned some new history today

@TroyTheCatFish 10 ай бұрын

Amazing Video! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤❤ 💖💖

@andrewsun4385 10 ай бұрын

Awesome!!!❤❤💯💯

@RandomSwiftie13 9 ай бұрын

So scumbag just means a bag full of green algae.

@neepsmcfly4176 10 ай бұрын

50 yrs old & still cursing my attention span! I find myself so engaged w the photo bombing zooplankton I forget to listen to the narrator. 🤔

@358itachi 10 ай бұрын

Was that Nostoc in the background (left of Spyrogyra) with its nitrogen fixing cells @3:45 and again @ 7:45 to the right this time?

@Draktand01 9 ай бұрын

”Floating city of scum” sound like what a Venice native would call their home city after it got turned into a tourist trap.

@allenwilliamson7528 10 ай бұрын

I want to be a pond scum scientist 🦠

@JakHart 10 ай бұрын

I'm not getting in any body of water ever again.

@luxill0s 10 ай бұрын

Humans have bacteria in their intestines and insects in their eyebrows, there is no escaping from the microcosmos

@XenoflareBahamut 10 ай бұрын

Vergil: (Heavy Breathing)

@paulbennett7021 10 ай бұрын

Shaving Foam is called Rasierschaum is German. It literally means Razor Scum.

@mattBLACKpunk 10 ай бұрын

Schaum=foam? Also, razor would be 'rasierer'. 'Rasier' comes from the verb 'rasieren', i.e. to shave

@Dodl1 10 ай бұрын

Sorry to correct you "Schaum" is mostly translated with "foam" . I am not sure though if the neutral word "scum" has a literal translation in German. At least I can't think of one that is not dialect. In Austrian German we call it "Gatsch" or nicer "Schäumchen, I guess you could say that" Schaum" could be "foam" or " scum" depending on the meaning, so maybe you are half right...

@mnarath8376 10 ай бұрын

translation for "scum" into german would be "Abschaum" so i guess thats where the confusion comes from

@kellydalstok8900 10 ай бұрын

The origin of the word is Germanic: schuim in Dutch, skûm in Frisian, Schaum in German all mean froth or foam. Scum is just a particular kind of foam.

@ngls 10 ай бұрын

The most accurate translation for scum would probably be "Abschaum", which is also a derogatory term. Btw, don't listen to @paulbennet7021, as Rasierschaum is the literal translation of shaving foam.

@1MDA 10 ай бұрын

I love hearing other voices rather than the main guy

@ivanfedak4517 10 ай бұрын

Awsome

@joshuakarr-BibleMan 10 ай бұрын

I just saw a Bunsen and Beaker video that made me think of your channel. Bunsen had invented a substance that made microorganisms big enough to study with the naked eye. I would share it, but it was in the middle of a long binge video of Bunsen and Beaker skits.

@crazyboutferrets 10 ай бұрын

So new york basically

@Yezpahr 10 ай бұрын

Was her voice extra echo-y compared to usually or is it just my headset?

@technopoptart 10 ай бұрын

your headset though the music in the background had just a tint of wobble to it as well

@timmcdaniel6193 10 ай бұрын

*That's* Spirogyra? I thought they were just a British folk rock/prog band.

@stevenkarnisky411 10 ай бұрын

Actually, timmcdaniel, Spiro Gyra is an American jazz/fusion instrumental band of some renown. Two bands with the same odd name.

@timmcdaniel6193 10 ай бұрын

@@stevenkarnisky411 Ah! I thought I'd heard a song by "spirogyra", but decades ago, & when the discography of Spirogyra didn't trigger any memories, I chalked it up to a brain turned to mush. Thank you for Spiro Gyra.

@gamingrootz4411 10 ай бұрын

hmm might be time to clean my pond i think

@Miguel_and_The_Microbes 2 ай бұрын

Are are😅😅😅

@brendakrieger7000 9 ай бұрын

Thanks🔬🦠💚💜

@StopItGarrison 10 ай бұрын

Scun

@Nefertiti0403 10 ай бұрын

5:42 Okay True, BUT TO MUCH CAN/IS too much. Then at What?

@stevenkarnisky411 10 ай бұрын

OK, once again this particular aversion to the female voice is cropping up. Every word was enunciated correctly and clearly. Get off it, males! Women are as intelligent and can narrate as competently as Hank Green, or any other male. I understood every word on my tablet speakers and without my old man hearing aids!

@crow-jane 10 ай бұрын

I think some of Hank’s nerdbro fanbase needs to dip into his DFTBA work with his brother. I think it might do their limited worldview some good.

@LickMyMusketBallsYankee 10 ай бұрын

@@crow-janeimagine being this butthurt

@jrzreg2154 10 ай бұрын

watching before this video get a robot narration. Please someone tell me how can i turn off the translation in my language!

@synthetic_ivy 10 ай бұрын

its in the video settings next to the subtitle stuff I'm pretty sure (feel free to correct me if im wrong)

@andnowi 6 ай бұрын

I've never had a problem with pond muck, but the American pronunciation is just plain wrong, horrible, yuk

@Getschakter 10 ай бұрын

god? is that you? aka- why the echo on the voice? haha

@markedis5902 10 ай бұрын

That’s blanket weed not scum

$@luminousfractal420$

@luminousfractal420 9 ай бұрын

Not sure if nature or the latest republican headline

@hopelessnerd6677 10 ай бұрын

Disappointed. I thought from the title this was going to be about Los Angeles.

@user-nm5jg7kj1j 9 ай бұрын

style of voice+filters made an uncomfortable listening experience

@CantankerousCurmuddgeon 10 ай бұрын

Please forgive me for sound any sort of negative but I must say something. I have a sound challenge being on the Spectrum and the choice of vocal effect and soundtrack was actually painful to listen to. I understand the desire might have been to have the calming effect Hanks voice oft does but it did not work for me. It was completely counter. I would suggest lowering the gain on your voice, taking all effects off and re-think that soundtrack. It is really painful. Otherwise the commentary and imagery as always is great. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my concern and producing great content. I appreciate you