Journey to the Microcosmos
Jun 24, 2019 (en)
Documentary
[10] Min
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First Air DateJun 24, 2019
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Original titleJourney to the Microcosmos
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ReleaseJun 24, 2019
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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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Casts : 1 / Crews : 0
Specials ( 2019-09-05)
You Can Support The Microcosmos!
Episode: 1
Midi-chlorians: Our Connection to the Force
Episode: 2
Why Did We Start This Channel? (And Other Questions You've Been Asking)
Episode: 3
BONUS VIDEO: The Microcosmos Microscope
Episode: 4
Get the Music of the Microcosmos!
Episode: 5
500k Celebration Livestream!
Episode: 6
Hang out with the Microcosmos team!
Episode: 7
BONUS VIDEO: Hold The Microcosmos In Your Hands!
Episode: 8
BONUS: Microcosmos and Chill
Episode: 9
We Recorded Too Much Slow Motion Footage So Here's a Bonus Video
Episode: 10
A Microscopic Tour of Death | Compilation
Episode: 11
We Made A Store!
Episode: 12
The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along The Way | Compilation
Episode: 13
You Can Have Your Very Own Microcosmos Calendar!
Episode: 14
Microcosmos Livestream
Episode: 15
The Many Ways Microbes Eat, Get Eaten, and Poop | Compilation
Episode: 16
Tardigrades: The Surprisingly Sexy Ambassadors Of The Microcosmos | Compilation
Episode: 17
Microscopic Butts Are Fascinating | Compilation
Episode: 18
You Can't Escape Worms | Compilation
Episode: 19
This MITE Be Our Creepiest Episode | Compilation
Episode: 20
Thanks For Coming On This Journey With Us
Episode: 21
Season 1 ( 2019-06-24)
Meet the Microcosmos
Episode: 1
How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch
Episode: 2
Stentors: Single-Celled Giants
Episode: 3
How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?
Episode: 4
Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory
Episode: 5
Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
Episode: 6
How Do Protozoa Get Around?
Episode: 7
Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
Episode: 8
Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures
Episode: 9
How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?
Episode: 10
Death in the Microcosmos
Episode: 11
Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters
Episode: 12
Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal
Episode: 13
Relax and Enjoy the View
Episode: 14
Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted
Episode: 15
Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
Episode: 16
The Microscopic Circle of Life
Episode: 17
Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters
Episode: 18
The Colors of the Microcosmos
Episode: 19
Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades
Episode: 20
Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?
Episode: 21
Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates
Episode: 22
Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink
Episode: 23
What Microscope Do We Use? (And Other Frequently Asked Questions)
Episode: 24
What Humans and Stentors Have in Common
Episode: 25
Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers
Episode: 26
We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?
Episode: 27
What If All the Microbes Disappeared?
Episode: 28
Desmids: The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals
Episode: 29
Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
Episode: 30
Season 2 ( 2020-01-27)
We Filmed Tardigrade Sex!
Episode: 1
The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy
Episode: 2
Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro
Episode: 3
How to Identify Microbes
Episode: 4
How Cyanobacteria Took Over The World
Episode: 5
Bacillaria: Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies
Episode: 6
The Microcosmos of the 1800s - The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Episode: 7
How We Find Our Microbes
Episode: 8
The Secret Things Living in Your Aquarium
Episode: 9
Synura: Smelly, Flowery Confetti
Episode: 10
How to Survive the Microcosmos
Episode: 11
What Is the Point of Sex?
Episode: 12
What Are These Vorticella up To?
Episode: 13
Water Fleas: Look Weird, Adapt Weirder
Episode: 14
Making Decisions Without a Brain
Episode: 15
Peritrich Ciliates: Masters of Long-Range Snacking
Episode: 16
The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos
Episode: 17
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
Episode: 18
Testate Amoebas: Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers
Episode: 19
Colorless Euglenoids: Structure and Function (and Food)
Episode: 20
The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis
Episode: 21
The Microbe You Eat All The Time
Episode: 22
How to Name a Microbe
Episode: 23
Preserving the History of the Microcosmos With Prepared Slides
Episode: 24
Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World
Episode: 25
Season 3 ( 2020-08-10)
We Upgraded Our Microscope!
Episode: 1
How Do Microorganisms Poop?
Episode: 2
Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes
Episode: 3
Our Paramecia Are Infected
Episode: 4
Lacrymaria: Vicious Long-Necked Predators
Episode: 5
The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes
Episode: 6
Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate
Episode: 7
Can Microbes See Without Eyes?
Episode: 8
Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?
Episode: 9
Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller
Episode: 10
Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter
Episode: 11
Some Water Bears Live on Land
Episode: 12
The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba
Episode: 13
This Ciliate Is About to Die
Episode: 14
Strange Stentor Stories
Episode: 15
The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
Episode: 16
How Did Multicellularity Evolve?
Episode: 17
Actinobolina: A Tiny Predatory Porcupine
Episode: 18
Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside
Episode: 19
Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?
Episode: 20
Dinoflagellates: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut
Episode: 21
Moss & Lichen: Which One Is Actually a Plant?
Episode: 22
Suctorians: The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates
Episode: 23
Pelomyxa: The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet
Episode: 24
Season 4 ( 2021-02-22)
Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?
Episode: 1
How Do Microorganisms Pee?
Episode: 2
Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
Episode: 3
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
Episode: 4
Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
Episode: 5
Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes
Episode: 6
How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells
Episode: 7
Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
Episode: 8
The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
Episode: 9
The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates
Episode: 10
We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
Episode: 11
Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums
Episode: 12
The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos
Episode: 13
Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers
Episode: 14
Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos
Episode: 15
Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies
Episode: 16
We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
Episode: 17
Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos
Episode: 18
The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
Episode: 19
We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail
Episode: 20
The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
Episode: 21
Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos
Episode: 22
These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
Episode: 23
Where Is This Anemone Really From?
Episode: 24
The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite
Episode: 25
Season 5 ( 2021-08-30)
The Dark History of Sea Monkeys
Episode: 1
What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?
Episode: 2
Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
Episode: 3
The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen
Episode: 4
Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight
Episode: 5
Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer
Episode: 6
The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice
Episode: 7
Tumbling Down Invisible Highways
Episode: 8
The Arachnid Whose Poop Is Making You Sneeze
Episode: 9
Dileptus: The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite
Episode: 10
Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
Episode: 11
Microbes in Slow Motion
Episode: 12
The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis
Episode: 13
Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish
Episode: 14
Creepy Crawly Close-Ups
Episode: 15
Adventures in Being Eaten
Episode: 16
The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
Episode: 17
The Double Life of a Fake Jellyfish
Episode: 18
The Tiny Worlds Inside of Single-Celled Organisms
Episode: 19
Microbe Hunting in Antarctica
Episode: 20
Nematodes: The Worm That Sculpted The World
Episode: 21
Aeolosoma: Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms
Episode: 22
What Even Is A Species?
Episode: 23
Spathidiids Come In Many Shapes and Sizes
Episode: 24
Season 6 ( 2022-03-28)
Giant Microscopic Cannibals
Episode: 1
How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
Episode: 2
The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
Episode: 3
There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
Episode: 4
We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
Episode: 5
Putting Coral Under the Microscope
Episode: 6
How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
Episode: 7
How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
Episode: 8
Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
Episode: 9
Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
Episode: 10
Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
Episode: 11
Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
Episode: 12
A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
Episode: 13
The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
Episode: 14
These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
Episode: 15
Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
Episode: 16
These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
Episode: 17
Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
Episode: 18
We Accidentally Grew Crystals
Episode: 19
Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
Episode: 20
Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
Episode: 21
The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
Episode: 22
Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
Episode: 23
These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
Episode: 24
Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
Episode: 25
Sand Is Full of Life and Death
Episode: 26
The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
Episode: 27
Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
Episode: 28
This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
Episode: 29
How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
Episode: 30
A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
Episode: 31
The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
Episode: 32
The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
Episode: 33
The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
Episode: 34
How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
Episode: 35
The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
Episode: 36
Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
Episode: 37
Microscopic Space Travelers
Episode: 38
These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
Episode: 39
How Does Yeast Make Bread?
Episode: 40
How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
Episode: 41
How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
Episode: 42
Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
Episode: 43
Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
Episode: 44
The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
Episode: 45
These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
Episode: 46
The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
Episode: 47
The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
Episode: 48
How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
Episode: 49
Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope!
Episode: 50
The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
Episode: 51
When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
Episode: 52
The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
Episode: 53
Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
Episode: 54
We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
Episode: 55
Season 7 ( 2023-05-29)
The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
Episode: 1
When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
Episode: 2
The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
Episode: 3
Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
Episode: 4
We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
Episode: 5
Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
Episode: 6
This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
Episode: 7
Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
Episode: 8
Falling In Love With Microscopy
Episode: 9
The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
Episode: 10
Why Are Some Birds Blue?
Episode: 11
The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
Episode: 12
Floating Cities of Scum
Episode: 13
Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
Episode: 14
Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
Episode: 15
Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
Episode: 16
This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
Episode: 17
Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
Episode: 18
This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
Episode: 19
These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
Episode: 20
Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
Episode: 21
Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
Episode: 22
Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
Episode: 23
What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
Episode: 24
The History of Red Algae
Episode: 25
These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
Episode: 26
Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
Episode: 27
We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
Episode: 28
The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
Episode: 29
This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
Episode: 30
What Makes A Microbe Rare?
Episode: 31
These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
Episode: 32
This special diatom is having a very bad day
Episode: 33
We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
Episode: 34
These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
Episode: 35
How Do We Find Cancer?
Episode: 36
Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
Episode: 37
This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
Episode: 38
We Found Something Strange in Portugal
Episode: 39
We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
Episode: 40
You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
Episode: 41
Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
Episode: 42
We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
Episode: 43
How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
Episode: 44
Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
Episode: 45
What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
Episode: 46
Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
Episode: 47
Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
Episode: 48
A Collection of Tiny Universes
Episode: 49
Some Microbes Also Take Naps
Episode: 50
We Answer Your Questions!
Episode: 51
We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
Episode: 52
The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)
Episode: 53
