2019-06-24 7/10
Overview
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 want to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey through the microcosmos.
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Hank Green
Seasons List
Specials
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1. You Can Support The Microcosmos!
2. Midi-chlorians: Our Connection to the Force
3. Why Did We Start This Channel? (And Other Questions You've Been Asking)
4. BONUS VIDEO: The Microcosmos Microscope
5. Get the Music of the Microcosmos!
6. 500k Celebration Livestream!
7. Hang out with the Microcosmos team!
8. BONUS VIDEO: Hold The Microcosmos In Your Hands!
9. BONUS: Microcosmos and Chill
10. We Recorded Too Much Slow Motion Footage So Here's a Bonus Video
11. A Microscopic Tour of Death | Compilation
12. We Made A Store!
13. The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along The Way | Compilation
14. You Can Have Your Very Own Microcosmos Calendar!
15. Microcosmos Livestream
16. The Many Ways Microbes Eat, Get Eaten, and Poop | Compilation
17. Tardigrades: The Surprisingly Sexy Ambassadors Of The Microcosmos | Compilation
18. Microscopic Butts Are Fascinating | Compilation
19. You Can't Escape Worms | Compilation
20. This MITE Be Our Creepiest Episode | Compilation
21. Thanks For Coming On This Journey With Us
22. The Microcosmos Compilation Compilation
23. An Hour of Our Uncut Microscopic Footage
Season 1
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1. Meet the Microcosmos
2. How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch
3. Stentors: Single-Celled Giants
4. How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?
5. Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory
6. Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
7. How Do Protozoa Get Around?
8. Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
9. Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures
10. How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?
11. Death in the Microcosmos
12. Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters
13. Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal
14. Relax and Enjoy the View
15. Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted
16. Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
17. The Microscopic Circle of Life
18. Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters
19. The Colors of the Microcosmos
20. Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades
21. Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?
22. Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates
23. Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink
24. What Microscope Do We Use? (And Other Frequently Asked Questions)
25. What Humans and Stentors Have in Common
26. Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers
27. We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?
28. What If All the Microbes Disappeared?
29. Desmids: The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals
30. Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
Season 2
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1. We Filmed Tardigrade Sex!
2. The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy
3. Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro
4. How to Identify Microbes
5. How Cyanobacteria Took Over The World
6. Bacillaria: Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies
7. The Microcosmos of the 1800s - The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
8. How We Find Our Microbes
9. The Secret Things Living in Your Aquarium
10. Synura: Smelly, Flowery Confetti
11. How to Survive the Microcosmos
12. What Is the Point of Sex?
13. What Are These Vorticella up To?
14. Water Fleas: Look Weird, Adapt Weirder
15. Making Decisions Without a Brain
16. Peritrich Ciliates: Masters of Long-Range Snacking
17. The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos
18. The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
19. Testate Amoebas: Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers
20. Colorless Euglenoids: Structure and Function (and Food)
21. The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis
22. The Microbe You Eat All The Time
23. How to Name a Microbe
24. Preserving the History of the Microcosmos With Prepared Slides
25. Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World
Season 3
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1. We Upgraded Our Microscope!
2. How Do Microorganisms Poop?
3. Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes
4. Our Paramecia Are Infected
5. Lacrymaria: Vicious Long-Necked Predators
6. The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes
7. Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate
8. Can Microbes See Without Eyes?
9. Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?
10. Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller
11. Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter
12. Some Water Bears Live on Land
13. The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba
14. This Ciliate Is About to Die
15. Strange Stentor Stories
16. The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
17. How Did Multicellularity Evolve?
18. Actinobolina: A Tiny Predatory Porcupine
19. Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside
20. Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?
21. Dinoflagellates: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut
22. Moss & Lichen: Which One Is Actually a Plant?
23. Suctorians: The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates
24. Pelomyxa: The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet
Season 4
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1. Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?
2. How Do Microorganisms Pee?
3. Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
4. Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
5. Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
6. Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes
7. How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells
8. Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
9. The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
10. The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates
11. We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
12. Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums
13. The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos
14. Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers
15. Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos
16. Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies
17. We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
18. Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos
19. The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
20. We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail
21. The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
22. Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos
23. These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
24. Where Is This Anemone Really From?
25. The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite
Season 5
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1. The Dark History of Sea Monkeys
2. What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?
3. Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
4. The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen
5. Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight
6. Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer
7. The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice
8. Tumbling Down Invisible Highways
9. The Arachnid Whose Poop Is Making You Sneeze
10. Dileptus: The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite
11. Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
12. Microbes in Slow Motion
13. The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis
14. Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish
15. Creepy Crawly Close-Ups
16. Adventures in Being Eaten
17. The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
18. The Double Life of a Fake Jellyfish
19. The Tiny Worlds Inside of Single-Celled Organisms
20. Microbe Hunting in Antarctica
21. Nematodes: The Worm That Sculpted The World
22. Aeolosoma: Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms
23. What Even Is A Species?
24. The Spatula-Shaped Ciliate Family
Season 6
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1. Giant Microscopic Cannibals
2. How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
3. The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
4. There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
5. We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
6. Putting Coral Under the Microscope
7. How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
8. How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
9. Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
10. Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
11. Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
12. Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
13. A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
14. The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
15. These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
16. Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
17. These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
18. Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
19. We Accidentally Grew Crystals
20. Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
21. Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
22. The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
23. Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
24. These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
25. Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
26. Sand Is Full of Life and Death
27. The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
28. Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
29. This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
30. How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
31. A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
32. The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
33. The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
34. The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
35. How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
36. The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
37. Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
38. Microscopic Space Travelers
39. These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
40. How Does Yeast Make Bread?
41. How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
42. How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
43. Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
44. Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
45. The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
46. These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
47. The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
48. The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
49. How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
50. Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope!
51. The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
52. When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
53. The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
54. Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
55. We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
Season 7
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1. The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
2. When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
3. The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
4. Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
5. We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
6. Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
7. This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
8. Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
9. Falling In Love With Microscopy
10. The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
11. Why Are Some Birds Blue?
12. The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
13. Floating Cities of Scum
14. Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
15. Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
16. Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
17. This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
18. Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
19. This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
20. These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
21. Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
22. Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
23. Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
24. What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
25. The History of Red Algae
26. These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
27. Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
28. We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
29. The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
30. This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
31. What Makes A Microbe Rare?
32. These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
33. This special diatom is having a very bad day
34. We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
35. These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
36. How Do We Find Cancer?
37. Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
38. This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
39. We Found Something Strange in Portugal
40. We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
41. You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
42. Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
43. We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
44. How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
45. Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
46. What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
47. Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
48. Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
49. A Collection of Tiny Universes
50. Some Microbes Also Take Naps
51. We Answer Your Questions!
52. We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
53. The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)