Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates

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4 жыл бұрын

These world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.
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@shadowsfromolliesgraveyard6577 4 жыл бұрын

I love that the most powerful thing in science is being able to admit that you're wrong.

@charlybrown9024 4 жыл бұрын

@@brianwuoti1550 Creationist Bullshit.

@Vineor 4 жыл бұрын

@@charlybrown9024 If you wouldnt have gon ham on the blank slate/were all the same bs, ignoring history and vast archeological findings regarding indo europeans and their traces all over the globe alot of people wouldve ben more accepting of Darwins theory, especially the countless geneticists/biologists etc. being shunned out of academic circles due to wrong think dogma of their new peers. I understand Darwin and find his theory much more verified but the ignorance of so called new age experts regarding our past knowledge is pathetic to say the least and has really led me down a road doubting how right they really are if they resort to such childish methods of destroying history (Troy being the biggest example).

@brianwuoti1550 4 жыл бұрын

@@charlybrown9024 You seem emotionally attached to a particular idea. Are you certain you are objectively looking at the evidence? Secular mathematicians have had concerns with the claims of the theory since the 1960's. Those concerns have only grown the more we understand about biology.

@brianwuoti1550 4 жыл бұрын

@@charlybrown9024 Royal Society November 2016 Meeting: "Developments in evolutionary biology and adjacent fields have produced calls for revision of the standard theory of evolution" royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/11/evolutionary-biology/

@KaiserMattTygore927 4 жыл бұрын

@@brianwuoti1550 Your creationist garbage has been debunked 581329593430458629434499 times. Go away, and find some other place to proseltyze.

@katzbird1 4 жыл бұрын

"Moist taxi" creates the most uncomfortable image in my mind

@Wigalot 4 жыл бұрын

Fake taxi anyone?

@teawrecks1243 4 жыл бұрын

what about a fleshy bus, like some sort of techno-organic road whale

@Haplo-san 4 жыл бұрын

Moist taxi sounds relaxing; a good service untill you arrive and arrive. But Kappa particles creeping me out!

@anosmianAcrimony 4 жыл бұрын

@@teawrecks1243 Ever watched My Neighbor Totoro? There's a techno organic bus-cat. It's not very techno though.

@dracodracarys2339 4 жыл бұрын

@Dio Brando WRYYYYYYYYY MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA

@unyin7721 4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the term "International Microbes of Mystery".

@P-B-G_YT 4 жыл бұрын

Which was the exact moment I paused and started looking at the comments.

@P-B-G_YT 4 жыл бұрын

If you want to see that phrase mentioned, start watching at 7:01

@diegorodriguesdesouza7389 4 жыл бұрын

Cool name to put somewhere in a microbiology lab

@Eric-sy1xu 4 жыл бұрын

"Hey baby, are you a snail? Cause I'm a paramecium & I want you to be my Moist Taxi tonight ;) " This is the most sinful phrase I've ever written

@TheRiskyBrothers 4 жыл бұрын

I want you to know that my girlfriend and I watch these videos and I'm stealing this.

@Boogers32150 4 жыл бұрын

THE MOISTURE INCREASES

@avariceseven9443 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRiskyBrothers Is your girlfriend a snail?

@richardjoyce848 4 жыл бұрын

You must lead a very shelterd life.

@Hokuhikene 4 жыл бұрын

What if she is a Raccoon?

@RachelMakesStufff 4 жыл бұрын

I love this series so much, but man what I would give for podcasts with hank taking about literally anything in this relaxing voice to listen to before falling asleep at night, gravely or not.

@rotifer 4 жыл бұрын

*Parameciums are great at parties, trust me.*

@alphaamoeba 4 жыл бұрын

How about Amoebas?

@oceanlover9450 4 жыл бұрын

Hey all parrrrry!!!

@villie86 4 жыл бұрын

>trusting a rotifer Yeah, sure buddy, sure.

@Paramecium914 4 жыл бұрын

😉

@scorpuloid3952 4 жыл бұрын

Yes they absolutely are!

@bennyfactor 4 жыл бұрын

ah yes, kappa particles, I've observed those in twitch chat

@SuperVreemd 4 жыл бұрын

5Head

@druid_zephyrus 4 жыл бұрын

As soon as it came up, I paused and came looking for my fellow gamers. I knew y'all'd be here, I could smell the basement funk. Kappa

@c.i.n.b4710 3 жыл бұрын

ach

@pfunk_1535 3 жыл бұрын

Kappa YEP Kappa OMEGALUL

@SigmaticDev 4 жыл бұрын

The footage in this was gorgeous. I love that you can get a sense visually for their shape in 3d as they swim around. It's easy to forget when looking at flat illustrations and diagrams.

@TheRogueWolf 4 жыл бұрын

2:08- "Honest, officer, I'm not drunk! I've got a _paramecium_ stuck to me!" "Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before. Come on, it's off to the drunk slide with you."

@roy4173 4 жыл бұрын

This is honestly the only channel that features microorganism photobombing that I know lol.

@MochYee 4 жыл бұрын

2:07 There have been plenty of times where we've set up a recording of some beautiful organism, only to have paramecia come by... and photobomb our composition. Euglena: Paramecia: i sPin YoU rIgHt rOuNd bAbY rIgHt ROuNd LiKe a ReCOrD--

@donhartman2406 4 жыл бұрын

Nice😂

@feralperil 4 жыл бұрын

speeeeeen

@megatronyeets 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao this made me snort

@amoebaproteus. Жыл бұрын

spin

@EasterWitch 4 жыл бұрын

Where I live we call Paramecium "slipper animals"

@akxvcubaruv 4 жыл бұрын

Turkey?

@Ruho_ami 4 жыл бұрын

German?

@110110010 4 жыл бұрын

Czech just calls them "slippers". Paramecium caudatum is "slipper large"

@limiv5272 4 жыл бұрын

In Hebrew they're called "sandalit", which means something like "small sandal"

@conco6564 4 жыл бұрын

Vietnam call it "shoes animal"

@Expoz3DxSpaRtaN 4 жыл бұрын

Never had a channel I always clicked immediately.

@JelloThatsMellow 4 жыл бұрын

Kurzgesagt, baby

@ariochiv 4 жыл бұрын

PBS Eons is also really good for interesting biology.

@ariochiv 4 жыл бұрын

Deep Look is another good option.

@ianh1504 4 жыл бұрын

I wait until bedtime

@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 4 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one, who has instead channels, I'll click on eventually, even if it would take me to the end of time to watch them all, in the long run? I can't make small singularities to immerse myself in time dilation to watch these videos, u no. =)))

@red_nikolai 4 жыл бұрын

Chill voiceover + soft music + beautiful imagery + SCIENCE = A really nice little rest for my anxious self. I'm sorry to be seeing the view count on new videos slowly dropping, and I hope you guys keep making these videos for a long time to come. I've never found anything quite like this, you are making something really special.

@NuisanceMan 4 жыл бұрын

I want to reenact the beginning of this video. I'm going to swallow Christmas lights and then dive into piranha-infested waters.

@crazinessisme 4 жыл бұрын

My son loves these videos. He will be so angry that I'm watching it without him.

@PeterVJaspersFayer 4 жыл бұрын

Well then, watch it again, with him ! (You'll see something you missed the first time)

@GetToKnowNature 4 жыл бұрын

These videos are perfect for Monday mornings. A peaceful, mellow but also informative way to get your brain going for the week.

@JuancharroVlogs 4 жыл бұрын

This is exciting! At my lab my team and I study the protein that causes this so called "killer trait" (R bodies) Happy to see Hank talk about it :)

@EdMcStinko 4 жыл бұрын

I love how the narrator talks about these guys like they are cute little cuddly animals.

@nightrous3026 4 жыл бұрын

Hank i just wanna say i really appreciate this. Been here since the first video on this channel.

@lsswappedcessna 4 жыл бұрын

"Moist Taxi" -Hank Green, 2019. Let's see THAT make it into one of John's novels, huh?

@rotifer 4 жыл бұрын

*A Paramecium and a Rotifer walk into a bar...*

@SnoopyDoofie 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear that they've evolved legs.

@banksy50 4 жыл бұрын

That's two cilli

@DavidKutzler 4 жыл бұрын

The paramecium says, "I need a drink." The rotifer says, "looking at your contractile vacuoles, I think you've had enough."

@personzorz 4 жыл бұрын

The bartender says "what is this, some kind of joke?"

@thegenerousdegenerate9395 4 жыл бұрын

The paramecium says "oh my head is splitting." The rotifer replies "so 2 or 3 drinks?"

@arthurcadaver9418 4 жыл бұрын

I swear this channel is just my chill playlist, I come home after along day and I unwind by watching theses fascinating little creatures as soft music plays in the background and I can listen to his calming voice put me to sleep

@IntenseVisuals 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Hank records the vocals at full speed and they slow it down 0.5 in editing.

@Hunter-xc5ry 4 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a channel like this when I first bought a microscope.

@dracodracarys2339 4 жыл бұрын

2:15 OH GOD, THEY'RE CONJUGATING ON CAMERA. HAVE THEY NO SHAME, THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE PG-RATED

@amiralozse1781 4 жыл бұрын

microbe-porn or is it micro-porn

@sarthak8350 3 жыл бұрын

They r dividing

@DaydreamingArtist322 3 жыл бұрын

Not only that, they _swam into view_ while conjugating.

@myrielperez8468 3 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not your comment except my homework, I was not sure what was happening. Hahahaha thanks

@mrJety89 4 жыл бұрын

It's a neat trick to use polarised light. I wonder if anyone ever tried to use slow motion cameras combined with a microscope.

@fast1nakus 4 жыл бұрын

Jellyfish Stinging in MICROSCOPIC SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 120

@RobertoCighetti 4 жыл бұрын

I've always loved paramecia since high school! 😍 And your flu-voice is so mesmerizing... kinda protists-ASMR! 🤗 Bravo to James for the footage as well

@JamsGerms 4 жыл бұрын

Aww thank you! ❤️

@cockthesheep3051 4 жыл бұрын

You say I'm not being consumed, but I'm sure there are lots of tiny animals like this eating me right now

@nancynickerson4341 4 жыл бұрын

I've been a member of the Paramecium Appreciation Society for many years.

@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39 4 жыл бұрын

Amen, AND Awomen!!! Microbes R🤩CK!!! (&, I suppose, rocks MICROBE!!! As a contributory factor, of course.) Orrr....🤔.... something...)

@nancynickerson4341 4 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39 Amen, Awomen and Amicrobe!

@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39 4 жыл бұрын

@@nancynickerson4341 😁😁😁😁😁!!!!

@Hokuhikene 4 жыл бұрын

Y they are cool when u r stoned

@river_brook 4 жыл бұрын

That ending really gives me hope for my future as an artist! Sometimes I take critiques kind of hard, and I feel bad about not being able to absorb it at face value, so hearing that the need for self-reflection crops up even in the scientific realm is a comfort.

@smaakjeks 4 жыл бұрын

"Moist taxis." How delightful.

@TragoudistrosMPH 4 жыл бұрын

Darn it! My grant is passed due, and *this* channel had to upload now??? 😫 I a grateful and sad! 5:14 this is amazing! 3d head-on stentor!!!

@sergpie 4 жыл бұрын

We’ve all been that paramecium; looking for a moist taxi at 3AM after a long night of conjugating. 🦠

@jamesdriscoll9405 4 жыл бұрын

I had my kids saying "paramecium cheese" for a while. It was a hoot.

@elisabethkingo5681 4 жыл бұрын

My cat gets so exited when I watch this! I have to move my chair to be able to watch it with him!

@revenevan11 4 жыл бұрын

Aww, why do you think he likes it? Is he captivated by the fast moving shapes on screen? Back when animal planet had something besides garbage reality tv on it, my cat used to love watching big cats chase after antelope on tv. We had to stop him from swatting the screen! We would just pet him on the couch while his head flicked back and forth following the motion.

@elisabethkingo5681 4 жыл бұрын

@@revenevan11 I can't be sure. But I believe that the unpredictability of the movements is what gets him. Like prey in real life. I it awesome to see him so engaged in the screen!

@kennymartin5976 4 жыл бұрын

"Moist Taxi" is a good name for an alternative rock band.

@deadlyshizzno 4 жыл бұрын

Hands down one of the best Microcosmos videos so far, imo

@doughauck57 4 жыл бұрын

Holy cow, but this show is a warm bath with scented candles for your brain! Waiting for Hank to say, “We’re just gonna put a happy little paramecium over here; just a happy paramecium, it can be our little secret.”

@britoroque 4 жыл бұрын

If paramecium is so ubiquitous, it is probably able to travel within the digestive tract of animals.

@katelillo1932 4 жыл бұрын

Ronaldo Brito Roque that’s what I thought, too. Bird bellies!

@BirdWhisperer46 Жыл бұрын

Probably in canteens and other water carriers of early humans.

@monkey_man70-1 4 ай бұрын

I absolutely love this video. Good job on including the emotional and personal quotes from Tracy. Those quotes are so very important to me. It represents an important moment in someone's life where they had to decide what was the right choice and I think, they chose wisely.

@stevebluh 4 жыл бұрын

I've been watching this channel for some time and didn't know, 'till now, the voice actor was ole' Hankie's bedroom voice. Many thanks, great channels.

@nadinehackman2358 4 жыл бұрын

This narration is so mellifluous and clever, I love it!

@cogspace 3 жыл бұрын

"Like looking down on a city at night from an airplane - the moving lights a sign of life at a distance" This is such a powerful simile.

@Fractal_blip 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your production and time spent on such a fascinating subject.

@Roll587 4 жыл бұрын

I misread the thumbnail as"hairy ovaries." Cool cool cool cool cool

@wonderwend1 4 жыл бұрын

As another viewer called Michael said " his voice is like satin sheets against my eardrums". Hank, your voice is always a pleasure

@anshuman_eek 4 жыл бұрын

Complexly brings out the best shows!

@XxThunderflamexX 4 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to hope TierZoo makes a tier list of microscopic life. So far, they've only discussed Tardigrades, which they designated as F-tier due to their most noteworthy ability being deemed "cool but impractical".

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

How is it that me watching 2 year old Journeys is how I discover a Complexly poetry channel?? I've already subbed, after looking for the channel. I'm exceedingly glad I was watching these old videos! 😁🙃😉🙂

@lync254 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos bring me joy.

@persomnus 4 жыл бұрын

I really love the 100x and 40x magnification shots! It really makes them feel more real.

@murielvaillancourt3855 3 жыл бұрын

I love so much your channel! It’s poetry and science together and reflects the view of the first philosophers from Greece.

@VINCENTDARKLY 4 жыл бұрын

honestly after watching this channel for past month or so Stunning is now all ways the word that always comes to mind now when talking about the Microcosmos

@felpshehe 4 жыл бұрын

I always get impressed and emotional when watching your videos. Every single one.

@lunarcod7187 4 жыл бұрын

"Hairy Ovals of Mystery"

@johnopalko5223 4 жыл бұрын

It would be a great name for a band. I'd be more inclined to go see them than I would "The Moist Taxis."

@thegenerousdegenerate9395 4 жыл бұрын

I'll take "things that sound dirty but aren't" for 300.

@johnopalko5223 4 жыл бұрын

@@thegenerousdegenerate9395 Oh, jeez, that hadn't even occurred to me. I guess my mind isn't traveling in its usual gutter today. 😊

@dustbunnieboo 4 жыл бұрын

Great video once again! Sorry to hear Hank is sick. I hope he feels better soon.

@bhen6264 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video. Makes my time feel a bit more valuable after watching it.

@wombat.6652 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ! Fascinating and beautiful.

@joshswimmerly7110 4 жыл бұрын

The taxis from n.y. could be considered " moist "

@leprosysucks 4 жыл бұрын

I think I am going to have to check out your readings as I love watching this series as i go to bed you have a very relaxing tone to your voice :)

@paulhughes8907 4 жыл бұрын

ha ha i've seen so many Parameciums. I keep trying to make amoeba cultures with grass and end up with zillions of parameciums, paramecia?

@JMDinOKC 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see an episode about (ugh) Giardia.

@Rubrickety 4 жыл бұрын

I happen to have just gotten around to watching this one. It was very soothing... up until the end, given current circumstances.

@AngryKittens 4 жыл бұрын

Kappa particles = Paramecium zombie outbreak

@verdatum 4 жыл бұрын

Finally, I got my paramecium episode!

@MsNicoleLeo 3 жыл бұрын

Hands down the best videos on KZfaq

@drewwilliamforbush2927 Жыл бұрын

Omg random recommendation from a lab class video, and hank just starts narrating in the background. Im in love.

@bajajones5093 4 жыл бұрын

sincerest thanks.

@jseligmann 2 жыл бұрын

Marvelous. Thank you!

@JaybeePenaflor 4 жыл бұрын

I've always loved Paramecia. It's my favorite ciliate even from my High School Biology days.

@lisandromarichelar2715 4 жыл бұрын

Get closer, i'm not gonna hurt you! Kappa

@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Brilliant 👍

@Jim73 4 жыл бұрын

Big fan of this content.

@DarkPhive 4 жыл бұрын

I just feel so relax and at peace...too bad I'm watching this at work haha

@davidcraig9779 4 жыл бұрын

Cappo di tutti cappo? Excellent videos, thank you all.

@gailhowes9398 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for another fascinating video!

@Paramecium914 4 жыл бұрын

Love these guys.

@mlucas4144 4 жыл бұрын

My cat Rollie loves to watch this show with me. I think it’s all the little moving organisms that he loves.

@marcantoinechateauvert 4 жыл бұрын

Take care and rest well! Colds are bad for narrators, except when they make your voice sound calmer and cooler (which it did today).

@chrisboucher1987 4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love these videos.

@randywatson8347 4 жыл бұрын

man that's so beautifull 5:15 shadow and depth.

@euclideanplane 4 жыл бұрын

I love this channel.

@PPYTAO 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video 👏

@klosterdev 4 жыл бұрын

4th Grade: "You have to do a report on an animal" "A dog!" "An elephant" Me, an intellectual: "A paramecium"

@crazyboutferrets 4 жыл бұрын

Raul Cunha r/woosh

@CharlieFoxtrot 4 жыл бұрын

Me, more intellectualer: rock

@agustinvenegas5238 4 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the power move of some 5 year old showing up with a presentation on microbes while the other kids are there with "lion", "dog" and "bird" If I have kids I'm definitely doing that

@metalwellington 4 жыл бұрын

this is one of the dumbest comment I've ever read .

@gunargundarson1626 4 жыл бұрын

N E R D

@brendakrieger7000 4 жыл бұрын

Psychedelic and very relaxing

@AnkitSharma-bv6nr 4 жыл бұрын

This channel is extremely superb ❤️

@charadreemurr1083 4 жыл бұрын

oh man paramecium are such a cool microbe, and interestingly theyre also a very common food to cultivate for baby fish. they come out of the egg so small that they begin life eating these little buggers!