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The music at the start of this was triumphant and glorious. This is my favorite video this season for sure.

When slowed down, the microorganisms begin to look like jellyfish or even cosmic horrors when magnified like that... except for that paramecium, which kinda looks like a tribble...

Every time I've come back to this channel since my first binge, I'm always struck with how this content and community has none of the drama, insincerity, or clamoring for attention, of other channels. I just feel happy and inspired coming in and out. Just lovely people enjoying the soothing beauty and wonder of microscopic life. Yall deserve some recognition for that! And to Hank and James and the microcosmos team, this is *SO* much better than rushed popscience videos. Future biology students are lucky to have you doing this work

I've been a patron since the beginning, this is my favourite channel on YT and I feel honoured to support the production of educational content that brings science and art together so beautifully. Long live journey to micro!

I think I might try recreating this entire Paramecium in 3D, there's so much visual information here that I can use to observe and make solid animations of the grid of wavy bits surrounding it, gosh it would be just a perfect thing to use for future projects too I think I'll probably do it, I'll post it here if I do and it looks good enough to share lol. Now that I'm almost finished with the video here, I really want to model them all, this whole video is mind blowing, I instantly understand how they've been moving now just by looking at this visually and, it's so bizarre to see this mechanical solution like come into focus, don't know how else to say it haha. I'd love to see these things in a 3D environment where you could do 3D fly arounds as they do their natural everyday thing that they do in the real world in 1/8th real time or what ever it might be, just to give my brain that visual understanding of them again but in a more correct environmental context, afterall they are 3D, if any of that makes sense. It got me thinking though and now I want to go on a tangent: With all the recent improvements in A.I., and the recently created waffer-scale wide chips that are said to increase model training power by 1000x (training the equivalent of GPT-3 in a single day), I honestly think it's safe to say that we'll be having "living" / functioning perfectly 3D versions of these organisms here soon, and that we'll all get a chance to look at them through 2D / 3D video footage or something of the sort, but it'll be in even crazier detail than we are here, granted this is trippy enough, just try imagining being able to fly around this thing in 3D and just get the full perspective of the environment, since we could pick any angle we like and change the lightning / what not. We're unlocking just exactly how proteins are formed, we've already got a very good prediction model, who knows what these new chips that are about to hit the market will bring, or any future chips. And we have had the DNA read / write technology for awhile now, all that was missing was this. ^ I give it 2 years to happen, hopefully.

For a French student in biology , your explanations and pictures are incredibles (and very useful). I can't thank you enough

When I was in college 20 years ago, we used some kind of tiny gel beads to slow ciliates down. They crowded the ciliates and got in their way like the paramecia crowding each other in the last clip. Unfortunately, there was this small window of time between the beads being too far apart to do much and so close together that they smooshed the ciliates. You had to add tiny amounts of water to the slide so they didn’t all turn into polyhedral paramecia between the beads.

Wow, just wow. That last grouping of paramecia is so beautiful.

Keep doing what you love. You guys are awesome and an inspiration. Can't wait to be here for 1 million. Thank you for work sirs.!

Watching Actinobolina is perfectly analogous to watching puffy clouds on a beautiful day..the shapes, squiggles, doodles, and lines, ever evolving.. the possiblities are endless.. I saw a boom box, a cat, a robot, a clown cat, and maybe a glimpse of a dancing milkshake with a robot face? This stuff is next level! absolutely stunning footage..Bravo😄👏💐

Hank: "While we cannot command the ciliate into the right position..." Me looking through my microscope: "Mutter mutter just stay in FRAME you weird blob of vacuoles!"

Wasn’t realizing that those little hairs surrounded the form! Time to rewatch every episode to look at these little treasures with a new perspective. Thank you James, hank, Andrew! Edit: This channel always gets 99% likes, worth watching, for all those who can’t see the dislikes on this video.

I just don't understand what kind of world we live in if this video doesn't have billions of views?

This is beautiful! Wonderful work James and editors! Can't help missing the old times where Hank had the time to make these really dreamy reads, to slow down and get in the zone to lead us into making us realise what a dream world we live by the power of his voice and diction

Just a thought... If you are going to be using slowed down video in the future (and please do!) you might want to consider putting a note on the speed ratio in the top right under the magnification. Great video!

I loved this video. I wish there was more.

I love your work. As an aquarist, your vids help me see what else is living in tanks :)

Children are inspired by movies and videos and TV, its that idea of becoming something greater than the people around you believe you to be, its that lack of self confidence in our own direction that makes us attracted to proposed directions highlighted or suggested by others. To abandon ones own ambitions and goals to obtain what others may request of you is a sacrifice on your part, to make such a sacrifice for those unwilling to return the favour when it matters the most to you personally is an example of being ushered into a one sided relationship. If people cant pull out all the stops when it matters to you surely they should expect no different on the occasion that something matters to them of which they request your participation.

Fascinating indeed. Having watched your videos for some time now, one of the things that I’ve found most interesting is ciliary motion. Those of us in the “macrocosmos” tend to think of motion as a thing brought about by muscles and a nervous system. It’s astonishing to see beautifully coordinated movement at the microscopic level… I find myself wondering what moves those cilia, if not muscles, and what controls them, if not a brain? The microcosmos is deeply intriguing, and your videos are masterpieces.

The Telaxnuscroa was something else. Still hard to believe they can mimic human voice patterns for brief periods of time. When they hunt it looks like a Nexaora Seem almost Frenkel

At 4:85 watching the paramecium pass over top and underneath each other is stunning, especially since we only ever seem microbes from one angle squished between two pieces of glass so to see vertical motion is super eye opening, it's one thing to know it happens and it's another to actually see it. Makes me wonder if we could somehow create a microscope that let's us move our viewing angles 360 Degrees

The Microcosmos keeps on being breathtaking beautiful. I’m looking forward to every episode of this amazing channel. Thanks so much for the efforts and the work you guys put in.

This is the mot beautiful video I've seen yet! Thank *you* to the team behind Journey to Micro for giving us amazing knowledge and footage of the unseen world that surrounds us

I look forward to every video you guys do. Fantastic stuff. Thanks.

I watched this video posted 4 minutes ago, and I enjoyed every 11 minutes of it.

This is great! I want *all* videos to be in slow motion from now on! I see things so much more clearly now!

I have been fascinated by this channel since it’s humble beginnings of a person with a microscope and some pond water passionate about sharing this hidden (to most of us) exciting world. The consistent increase in quality, commitment and dedication to continually improving the experience of this journey, along with the incredible amount of knowledge shared is not only impressive but I’m sure will play an integral role in sparking an interest in and fostering a new generation to explore this vital realm that not only supports our existence but gives us insight into our beginnings.

I've been watching for almost a month now, love it

This might have been the best video so far. Absolutely beautiful.

The clarity is insane

4 things I like here ... excellent unseen footage, a beautiful musical interpretation, an "Attenbourough-esq" Hank narration, and all the science behind that. $0.02.

I actually love this content! Please show more!

@andrewhuang you certainly did yourself on the music for this one!

Mesmerizing, as always.

This channel is such a gem I’m so happy I came across it

The paramecia at the end look very cozy!

So awesome~ thanks for sharing! That last video bit- talk about a traffic jam!

i love this topics, i would want someone to recommend me microbiology books, not just medical, but more wide content, maybe this channel could make a video in the future about it

Amazing footage! Thanks a lot!

The mental image of brushing my fingertips against the cilia of a Stentor while feeding is gonna make me straight up cry, this world is such a wonder!

I love these amazing slowed down videos - more and more of this please!

Doing all I can to keep from bursting out in a rousing chorus of "Hey Blepharisma, speed up a little bit! Speed up a little bit! Speed up a little bit!"

Yes! I've been waiting for this episode! 💜🔬🧑‍🔬

Oh my goodness I just came here today while learning about protozoans and I found this!This is insanely crazy and beautiful💕

This is awesome! In slow-mo the cilia look so fluffy and their movement is mesmerizing

Record this with a Phantom Slo motion camera!! I know it would be a crazy hassle, but imagine the results!!

Thanks for the awesome content!!!

It's a privilege to join you. Every. Week. Thank you for all the focusing and exposure and perspective that matters.

This microscope work is phenomenal, far beyond anything I've seen before. Really well done

8:25 all those fringes playing together, my first thought was about that mathematical expression used to define the chances of a pair of headphones getting tangled in a pocket. I wonder if they ever get stuck to each other.

I teach high school Microbiology, and one of my favorite labs is when the students get to look at paramecium under the microscope - they are so fast! I can't wait to pair the lab with watching this video so they really get to look at the cilia. Thank you for the video!

paramecia looked like a good representation of the multiverse specially with the multiple colours

This is the best channel ever

Fantastic - thanks.

beautiful work

Finally! I've been wanting to see this pretty much since this channel started! I wonder if you can get your hands on a real high-speed camera and if you can even get the kind of light needed into it without boiling your subjects...

I love shows like this where they focus on the science of objects instead of concepts.

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

The Romance of the microcosmos

I love this so much

Fantastic what I imagine what I see you bring it too reality

I cannot wait to see the collab with The Slow Mo Guys

Spectacular!

The paramecium looks like a living sock that uses lint to move around.😂 1:00

My cat is *really* enthralled with that little thing floating up the left side of the screen at 2:23

So awesome!

Your channel keeps me motivated to stay on my microscope. Thank you for the great videos.

Hauntingly beautiful

This was a great idea.

Awesome!!

suuuuuch a nice youtube channel. such beautiful videos of crazy weird mindblowin creatures. that are reeeal. and have been alive billions of years before us. and that make us possible.

Those cilia must be just a few atoms in diameter, right? Incredible

Incredible to see the cilia in action. Thanks for this.

Cant wait for this channel to be able to get one of the new microscopes that can actually see these magnificent organisms in real 3d world..

A Microcosmos/Slomo guys team-up video would be amazing

SloMo sure beats ProtoSlo! Very, very nice slow motion video. Good enough to earn a bump in my Patreon donation!

THE EPIC MICROBE SOUNDTRACK!

It’s so beautiful

K this is sooo soothing

Very good!! I love this channel! I'm a hobbyist biologist and I have an optical microscope, it doesn't have a digital input, and I would like to know in that video about Artemia how they recorded the scenes at normal speed but with the specimen at rest? Could someone please tell me what this fixing reagent is about? It's very tiring trying to look at ciliates with a microscope like mine.

ME ENCANTARIA PODER DISFRUTAR DE ESTOS VIDEOS EN ESPAÑOL. HACE MUCHO. ME HICE CON UN MICROSCOPIO Y HACIENDOLE ALGUNAS MODIFICACIONES, LOGRÉ PROYECTAR PAREMECIOS SOBRE EL TECHO DEL SALÓN. SE VEÍAN BASTANTE BIEN. ERAN OTROS TIEMPOS Y OTRAS TECNOÑOGIAS. SALUDOS.

How do you get such beautiful colors under your microscopes? I'm a microbiology student and I absolutely love these incredible videos! The colors are so crisp and contrasted. It makes them look so three dimensional and lifelike. Do you use dyes at all?

How are these microorganisms so colorful? It's as if their organs are glowing. Is this the result of some kind of dye, or maybe a lens fixed on the microscope?

James the master of micr....

I knew the voice sounded familiar, Hank Green what a legend

Interest how a slow motion footage seems to have passed so fast in 10 minutes that at the end I barely expected that this video was almost over, time is indeed relative after all.

All we need in life are the Hank brothers!

Partnership with The Slow Mo Guys!

It's amazing to see this is what we are, alien organisms or foreign to familiar sights and sounds.

I mean, I guess it really fits the chanel to slow things down. It's like those nature scenes where you see a slowed down cheeta hunting

Those paramecium at the end must be feeling rather crowded.

I appreciate the Spore cell stage music

YESSS!

toxoplasma gondii is so interesting, what do you know about them? I heard they can be found in cat litter...

Woah new music

Creative crissum,. It would be nice to have some on screen text to indicate each clip's playback speed.

Some slo mo of a nematode trapping fungus would be really cool.

Finally! Microbes at a proper speed

Am I the only one that truly cares for the microorganisms?