I really love how you can tell that Hank is trying to keep a more chill, relaxed tones in these videos... but he sometimes gets so excited about what he's talking about that he starts to slip into his normal, more thrilled cadence.

Eats oatmeal and prefers dark places.... sound like a broke college student to me

It's amazing how the slime mold's movement and "learning" behaves pretty much like a neural net. The growth direction is dictated by internal pressure at different junctions, and it just creates new junctions until it reaches food. It's so basic, but at the same time so efficient... It looks like intelligence, but it's intrinsically a living path finding algorithm!

I have a slime mold growing every summer in the shade of my house, living on only wood chips that cover a rubber sheet (for weed control). My wife wants me to hose it away, but I find it fascinating to watch.

Man: “Ha-ha! Complexity indicates intelligence!!” Slime mold: “...”

Still looking for them in the wild for you people but we cannot find them! And all of our slime molds formed spores, and we transferred them on wet tissues and waiting them to group up again!

One defining characteristic of the Myxomycetes is that if you can trick them into saying their name backwards they disappear.

*Let me tell you mortals, you haven't lived until you've had yourselves a slime mold smoothie.*

These are really fascinating. The comparison between slime and the Tokoyo metro lines really blew my mind!

I always loved finding slime mold in my local woods. I called the type around my neighborhood "Woods jello" because they looked like someone had accidentally dropped lemon jello in the middle of the woods. It was surprising how far it could travel in a day.

Journey Hank was so excited by slime molds that he sounded like SciShow Hank :)

When we make first contact with aliens, it'll probably be less of an epic handshake between a ship captain and a green man, and more of a bunch of scientists finding an autoreplicating blob in some cave

“...they fuse together...” Just in time for Valentine’s Day. Aaaaaaaw.

I can't wrap my brain around all of that being just ONE CELL!!

Someone asked me what they were once, all I could say is macro protist. When asked what that is I said it was a microscopic creature that does not fit into other groupings that are not in fact microscopic. They just looked at me like WTF? Ya well WTF would work too. Slimes are WTFs.

ZeFrank: This is Gladys, she is a slime mold.

This makes you wonder what variants of unimaginable species would arise; if the evolution of life took a much differentiated path?

I wish this episode had been longer. Please make a sequel going further into the literature and history of slime mold learning!

There was one in my backyard where a lot of swamp maples grow so maybe go under a swamp maple after it rains. It looked like a pile of yellow dog puke, but when I poked it, it was like weird styrofoam and black on the inside.

Smart slugs? Morphing? OATMEAL?! Holy crap, they're Yeerks!

Slime molds are highly underappreciated. They're some of the most fascinating organisms around.

I can't get over how well this entire series is made. The world of the very tiny has turned from something creepy and disgusting into something fascinating and amazing that I can't help but find immense respect for. Thank you, James. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, patrons!

Now imagine entire planet taken by this kind of thingy-bob, and it became conscious, and then develops intelligence

Where's the timelapse of the slime moving? You can't talk about how much it moves without the timelapse...

Funny how these tiny things can make me feel so small.

Hank - your quiet "It's Alivee!" is awesome! The laugh was well worth the strange, confused look from my housemate, who was wondering WTF I was doing. Thanks for the skinny on Slime Molds JTTM crew! Always neat and informative.

When I lived on a ranch I found a slime mold, like the yellow one here, that was huge. It grew on a moist part of the ground that the horses and cows used as a resting place at other parts of the year, hence rich in composted manure. It was amazing how fast it moved. Must have observed it daily for about a week. Then I guess it spored, and died. Absolutely fascinating.

So something that came to mind: Were slime molds an intermediary solution when single cell organisms came together to form multicellular organisms?

Man, i love slime moulds. They're just so interesting!

"Its a single cell", woah! "With millions of nuclei", oh... I know its still one "cell" but I always feel that giant and complicated "single celled" organisms are cheating the definition xD. It's still amazing the coordination and size of one continuous cytoplasm.

Slime Mold: The Grossest Voltron?

7:50 blew my mind - to see the material switch directions!

You need to do more on the slime molds. They're just mind boggling!

Some of my favorite creatures! So glad you made an episode on them!

This is so well done. The writing is brilliant. The tone that creeps and expands, like fascinating sci-fi horror. The cadence of voice acting, the musical tone shifts. The speed of cuts and goofy nature of the start to contrast how TERRIFYING! it becomes by the ending. This is an entire journey true to the name of the channel.

*We Attac* *We Protecc* *But most importantly...* *We slimey as hecc!*

Evolutionary Alternative: Imagine if humans naturally became "human centipedes", when conditions were poor?

if they couldnt tolerate me at my cyst then its safe to say i was the last thing on their minds at my balamuthia.

Great intro, and love the full-color close-up images. Thanks!

Always loved videos on slime molds! Never expected one from this channel though!! More amazing timeless videos from the Journey to the Microcosmos..

It's amazing how different they are, even at the most fundamental levels.

Absolutely awe-inspiring! I can't imagine this video being done better in any way! Thanks so much!!

WOOOOO been waiting forever for you guys to do slime molds have been hoping for this since this channel started. love you guys btw you do seriously awesome and very informative videos. have yet to miss even a single one!

James, Hank and all of the Patrions... thank you very much. I realize the priviledge of experiencing this miraculous channel for free! I could never afford this but desperately appreciate your allowing me into the microcosmic world.

Slime molds! I've been waiting for this episode!

My 1 year old baby was completely glued to this episode. He was leaning in with me, in awe for the entire 11 minutes

Omg! I'm so glad that I found this video! I literally discovered one of these big things in my worm bin this morning, and had no idea what it was. The strangest thing is, it literally appeared overnight. Yesterday, I checked on my worm bin and saw about 4 or 5 of these small weird looking yellow vein-like growths that were about the size of a quarter each. When I came back out this morning, the small ones were all gone, but now there's this huge one! I was scratching my head wondering where the heck did the little ones go and how did this big one get like this overnight?! Well, I'll be damned if they didn't do what I had suspected, but was almost afraid to allow myself to think they moved and combined into one, because that sounds a bit cray cray! I'm so blown away right now! Such an awesome & informative video! Thanks so much for all the info. You literally just answered what I was trying to figure out. I guess I have new residents in my bin now! Are they harmful at all? Should I be concerned about it getting on my skin, or can they hurt my worms? Come to think of it, I make a powder blend of egg shells, oats and cornmeal to add to the feeding for the worms...I'm wondering if it's the oats that's got it coming around & growing so big overnight? 🤔

I like seeing the petri dish sample, because it puts into perspective the size of the sample as seen by the naked eye. Of course we all know that everything we see here is tiny, but it really blows the mind when we see a drop of water on a slide and then get a close look at the entire word in that drop of water.

Last time I was this early, I didn't even have Mitochondria!

"There are only two genders" Slime Molds: "Revolting"

Very interesting video Hank & crew. Keep up the terrific work....... 👍👍

Im so happy I just stumbled on this channel, microbiology has always been something I've been curious about.

- "It's Alive" in the Thumbnail -Where you at Brad? This doesn't look like BA test kitchen...

Squishy Gooey Sticky Slime making channels are popular? Wannabes, these boyos did it first

Learnt about Slime Molds the very first time today. Found this video fascinating! And the commentary just as good

Your curiosity sparks mine. Thank you for this series, it's really fascinating. My kiddos like it too!

What's a slime mold's fractal number? It definitely has some self- similarity

Spooky that this slime is more intelligent than some people on our planet.

The way you present this research ..... I just love it 🥰

VERY COOL! Would love to see more on the slime molds, please.

I'm in microbiology class at high school. These are very interesting, and beutifull videos. Good work.

Seems we keep finding more organisms that we share quite a lot in common with. I wonder if we got enough of them with characteristics we know support complex life and apply the right conditions if we would see evolution take place before our eyes. Or, these are the link in evolution. They sure act like many land plants. Maybe they evolved into mycelium on costal lands and trees are just permanent fruiting bodies.

Amazing content. Every video you output it incredible. Love you guys.

Thank you for doing this show. It's really good!

I am sure, they would never form the inefficient mess in Germany.

Next time I need to plan a public transport network I'm gonna use me the heck out of these things.

@andrewhuang !!! youre permeating my research on more than music! bravo. i commend thee

The narration at times sounded like poetry. Beautiful. I subscribed.

Had one of these amazing things in my pitcher-plant terrarium. I assume/hope there are still some living in there in their amoeba stage, they're most welcome!

id like explanation on fungus, how does their microscopic life work ? for i am interested as they are no vegetal nor animal, they are great !

My hell of a day vanished as I was watching this. Thank you, it's awesome to learn while relaxing.

I can not imagine this channel being narrated by anyone else. Hank Green is an excellent science presenter. Sort of the "Bob Ross" of science. One can not forget the musical genius of Andrew Huang. I find this channel in particular to be a relaxing way to end a manic Monday.

Reminds me of looking at citylights from space.

It looks like a river delta

I can see the blob as a living fossil incarning the bridge between plants and animal life. This organism is truely fascinating

Best episode yet! Keep up the great work.

Uh oh he mentioned slime. We're about to get 10 Million confused and angry 8 year olds in here.

5:00 What is that signal? Personally, I hope it's a Beatles song about a nearly invisible, good looking sick guy with poor hygiene.

Omg I love watching videos about slim molds. Please do more

Well this was both fascinating and unsettling.

It kind of seems like backwards cytokinesis when the to slime molds join.

5:20 - Anyone else think of the Beatles... "Come together right now over me."

Ever since this channel started I've been waiting for this video

Just wanted to say how awesome this channel is since all of the videos have subtitles, yet none of them is advertised!

isnt the G in fungi like the G in "go" and not like in "genome"?

6:15 That sounds a lot like how fungi mate, fussing together and having more than 2 sexes.

I feel oddly proud and happy knowing I subscribed to this channel back when it had only 2k subs

Once I found quite a large yellow myxomycetes growing on soil contaminated and fed from a leaking sewage in a passage of a building... Looked artistic and beautiful like tree with network of branches, but scary too and as it grew and spread very fast covering a larger area every day. I always felt very curious about it as it feels like looking at an invasive alien thing. Never tried to touch or disturb it, though I knew it was a slime mould as we were taught in class. And one day it was gone when the place was cleaned up. Never seen that again.

Can I eat it?

"MICROcosmos" lol This was like calling a video about nebulae a geography lesson. Still cool af tho

This series is amazing to eat to. usually there isnt anything good to watch while eating so my food gets cold, so whenever a new one of these is out, i save it for supper so i can watch some quality content while i eat thank you for making these videos =)

This is great work. Thank you for these fantastic videos.

Seen a number of species of these around my area. The ones that make grey blobs on the ground covered in spores, and the ones that make the teeny round baskets on little stalks, and those that create many little black filaments.

Such wierd and impressive oddities of life. Truly amazing creatures. Great vid.

Mind boggling. Please make more!

That was SUPER trippy. Never seen anything that in depth about slime mold. Seems alien.

So glad you made a video on my favorite organism!

This channel and its fantastic content teach me infinitely more about life than half a library of philosophical books, hours of meditation, and countless therapy sessions combined.

Thanks, this was a really great and brilliantly researched video.

This is the best thing on KZfaq! Thank you!