Journey to the Microcosmos
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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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7 seasons
Season 1
2019 · 30 episodes
Season 1
2019 · 30 episodes
- 1 1. Meet the Microcosmos
- 2 2. How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch
- 3 3. Stentors: Single-Celled Giants
- 4 4. How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?
- 5 5. Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory
- 6 6. Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
- 7 7. How Do Protozoa Get Around?
- 8 8. Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
- 9 9. Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures
- 10 10. How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?
- 11 11. Death in the Microcosmos
- 12 12. Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters
- 13 13. Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal
- 14 14. Relax and Enjoy the View
- 15 15. Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted
- 16 16. Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
- 17 17. The Microscopic Circle of Life
- 18 18. Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters
- 19 19. The Colors of the Microcosmos
- 20 20. Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades
- 21 21. Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?
- 22 22. Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates
- 23 23. Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink
- 24 24. What Microscope Do We Use? (And Other Frequently Asked Questions)
- 25 25. What Humans and Stentors Have in Common
- 26 26. Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers
- 27 27. We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?
- 28 28. What If All the Microbes Disappeared?
- 29 29. Desmids: The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals
- 30 30. Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
Season 2
2020 · 25 episodes
Season 2
2020 · 25 episodes
- 1 1. We Filmed Tardigrade Sex!
- 2 2. The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy
- 3 3. Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro
- 4 4. How to Identify Microbes
- 5 5. How Cyanobacteria Took Over The World
- 6 6. Bacillaria: Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies
- 7 7. The Microcosmos of the 1800s - The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
- 8 8. How We Find Our Microbes
- 9 9. The Secret Things Living in Your Aquarium
- 10 10. Synura: Smelly, Flowery Confetti
- 11 11. How to Survive the Microcosmos
- 12 12. What Is the Point of Sex?
- 13 13. What Are These Vorticella up To?
- 14 14. Water Fleas: Look Weird, Adapt Weirder
- 15 15. Making Decisions Without a Brain
- 16 16. Peritrich Ciliates: Masters of Long-Range Snacking
- 17 17. The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos
- 18 18. The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
- 19 19. Testate Amoebas: Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers
- 20 20. Colorless Euglenoids: Structure and Function (and Food)
- 21 21. The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis
- 22 22. The Microbe You Eat All The Time
- 23 23. How to Name a Microbe
- 24 24. Preserving the History of the Microcosmos With Prepared Slides
- 25 25. Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World
Season 3
2020 · 24 episodes
Season 3
2020 · 24 episodes
- 1 1. We Upgraded Our Microscope!
- 2 2. How Do Microorganisms Poop?
- 3 3. Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes
- 4 4. Our Paramecia Are Infected
- 5 5. Lacrymaria: Vicious Long-Necked Predators
- 6 6. The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes
- 7 7. Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate
- 8 8. Can Microbes See Without Eyes?
- 9 9. Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?
- 10 10. Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller
- 11 11. Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter
- 12 12. Some Water Bears Live on Land
- 13 13. The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba
- 14 14. This Ciliate Is About to Die
- 15 15. Strange Stentor Stories
- 16 16. The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
- 17 17. How Did Multicellularity Evolve?
- 18 18. Actinobolina: A Tiny Predatory Porcupine
- 19 19. Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside
- 20 20. Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?
- 21 21. Dinoflagellates: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut
- 22 22. Moss & Lichen: Which One Is Actually a Plant?
- 23 23. Suctorians: The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates
- 24 24. Pelomyxa: The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet
Season 4
2021 · 25 episodes
Season 4
2021 · 25 episodes
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1. Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?
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2. How Do Microorganisms Pee?
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3. Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
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4. Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
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5. Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
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6. Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes
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7. How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells
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8. Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
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9. The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
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10. The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates
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11. We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
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12. Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums
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13. The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos
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14. Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers
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15. Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos
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16. Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies
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17. We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
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18. Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos
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19. The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
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20. We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail
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21. The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
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22. Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos
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23. These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
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24. Where Is This Anemone Really From?
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25. The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite
Season 5
2021 · 24 episodes
Season 5
2021 · 24 episodes
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1. The Dark History of Sea Monkeys
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2. What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?
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3. Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
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4. The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen
- 5 5. Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight
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6. Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer
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7. The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice
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8. Tumbling Down Invisible Highways
- 9 9. The Arachnid Whose Poop Is Making You Sneeze
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10. Dileptus: The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite
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11. Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
- 12 12. Microbes in Slow Motion
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13. The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis
- 14 14. Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish
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15. Creepy Crawly Close-Ups
- 16 16. Adventures in Being Eaten
- 17 17. The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
- 18 18. The Double Life of a Fake Jellyfish
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19. The Tiny Worlds Inside of Single-Celled Organisms
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20. Microbe Hunting in Antarctica
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21. Nematodes: The Worm That Sculpted The World
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22. Aeolosoma: Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms
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23. What Even Is A Species?
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24. The Spatula-Shaped Ciliate Family
Season 6
2022 · 55 episodes
Season 6
2022 · 55 episodes
- 1 1. Giant Microscopic Cannibals
- 2 2. How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
- 3 3. The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
- 4 4. There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
- 5 5. We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
- 6 6. Putting Coral Under the Microscope
- 7 7. How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
- 8 8. How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
- 9 9. Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
- 10 10. Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
- 11 11. Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
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12. Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
- 13 13. A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
- 14 14. The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
- 15 15. These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
- 16 16. Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
- 17 17. These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
- 18 18. Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
- 19 19. We Accidentally Grew Crystals
- 20 20. Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
- 21 21. Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
- 22 22. The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
- 23 23. Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
- 24 24. These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
- 25 25. Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
- 26 26. Sand Is Full of Life and Death
- 27 27. The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
- 28 28. Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
- 29 29. This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
- 30 30. How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
- 31 31. A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
- 32 32. The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
- 33 33. The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
- 34 34. The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
- 35 35. How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
- 36 36. The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
- 37 37. Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
- 38 38. Microscopic Space Travelers
- 39 39. These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
- 40 40. How Does Yeast Make Bread?
- 41 41. How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
- 42 42. How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
- 43 43. Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
- 44 44. Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
- 45 45. The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
- 46 46. These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
- 47 47. The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
- 48 48. The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
- 49 49. How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
- 50 50. Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope!
- 51 51. The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
- 52 52. When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
- 53 53. The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
- 54 54. Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
- 55 55. We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
Season 7
2023 · 53 episodes
Season 7
2023 · 53 episodes
- 1 1. The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
- 2 2. When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
- 3 3. The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
- 4 4. Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
- 5 5. We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
- 6 6. Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
- 7 7. This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
- 8 8. Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
- 9 9. Falling In Love With Microscopy
- 10 10. The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
- 11 11. Why Are Some Birds Blue?
- 12 12. The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
- 13 13. Floating Cities of Scum
- 14 14. Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
- 15 15. Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
- 16 16. Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
- 17 17. This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
- 18 18. Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
- 19 19. This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
- 20 20. These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
- 21 21. Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
- 22 22. Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
- 23 23. Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
- 24 24. What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
- 25 25. The History of Red Algae
- 26 26. These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
- 27 27. Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
- 28 28. We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
- 29 29. The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
- 30 30. This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
- 31 31. What Makes A Microbe Rare?
- 32 32. These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
- 33 33. This special diatom is having a very bad day
- 34 34. We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
- 35 35. These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
- 36 36. How Do We Find Cancer?
- 37 37. Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
- 38 38. This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
- 39 39. We Found Something Strange in Portugal
- 40 40. We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
- 41 41. You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
- 42 42. Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
- 43 43. We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
- 44 44. How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
- 45 45. Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
- 46 46. What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
- 47 47. Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
- 48 48. Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
- 49 49. A Collection of Tiny Universes
- 50 50. Some Microbes Also Take Naps
- 51 51. We Answer Your Questions!
- 52 52. We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
- 53 53. The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)
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