I'm studying microbiology and other biology sub-fields and love learning this kind of stuff!

@aamirrazak3467

4 жыл бұрын

Erozion 8 microbiology is such an awesome subject it’s really amazing how organisms so small we can’t see them without a microscope can have such profound impacts on human health

Microbes aren't saving the environment, or protecting the environment - they *are* the environment. Rock on, little buddies.

@geraldfrost4710

4 жыл бұрын

microbes make wine whiner

@aamirrazak3467

4 жыл бұрын

Microbes are the real mvps

@philipwipernickle4780

4 жыл бұрын

What isn't the environment?

@cameoshadowness7757

4 жыл бұрын

@@philipwipernickle4780 plastic.

@philipwipernickle4780

4 жыл бұрын

@@cameoshadowness7757 it is now

Hold up, you're telling me there were MOSQUITO FREE paradise islands out there and we RUINED it?

@naamadossantossilva4736

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't us,it was the pacific islanders.

@csweezey18

4 жыл бұрын

@Joku Toinen We haven't ruined the Sun. ...Yet.

@gabriel300010

4 жыл бұрын

@@csweezey18 we still probably didn't ruin mars.

@LovelyAngel.

4 жыл бұрын

If I remember it right, there were also no flies in Australia until Europeans came

@CRTNDN

4 жыл бұрын

@@gabriel300010 I mean... it's the only planet we know of that is completely inhabited by robots...

5:52 "Invasive mussels are a huge problem." Muscle Hank: angry muscle noises...

@TheRealFlenuan

4 жыл бұрын

You beat me to this comment

@jobriq5

4 жыл бұрын

RIP muscle Hank

1:15 Koalas are notoriously picky eaters and they're also notoriously adorable

@steelinskin5925

4 жыл бұрын

They are also notoriously riddled with STDs. You're welcome.

@dude86264

4 жыл бұрын

@@steelinskin5925 Who would have sex with a koala though?

@noshua2326

4 жыл бұрын

They’re also notoriously small brained

@noshua2326

4 жыл бұрын

Like they’re the dumbest mammals

@christelheadington1136

4 жыл бұрын

@@noshua2326 -Then why aren't they writing comments ?

I love your positive news stories. Makes me feel like I’m living in a time that isn’t so awful.

"Wolbachia" *Kojima intensifies*

@Skyle42

4 жыл бұрын

I had to pause the video and spend a moment wondering if I had remembered correctly but yep, sure enough. "Life imitates art"

You didn't mention the microbe eating away at our plastic problem. Seems a little wider spread in terms of saving the environment, but then again you'd have a documentary if you were going through all the helpful ones.

@tracy9610

4 жыл бұрын

I expected to see that too

@garretth8224

4 жыл бұрын

If i remember correctly they have already gone over that in a previous video.

@saintsyndicate5435

4 жыл бұрын

@@garretth8224 they have and the microbes don't make too much of a difference with our plastic problem

@MartinFinnerup

4 жыл бұрын

@@saintsyndicate5435 Well, it's not really about how much they are helping now, as opposed to how much they **might** help in the future. It's not something we are really using yet.

@saintsyndicate5435

4 жыл бұрын

@@MartinFinnerup you know what else (might help) not littering and enforcing the laws but that's not going to happen, so what makes you think they'll follow through with utilizing such a microbe/tool, I'm a realist and realisticly we already placed the straw to break the camels back so now we get wait and see the cosquences till then stay happy and live life to the fullest because 5 generations from now the world will most probably be ashes or on fire so eh

4:02 hold up, you mean to tell me there was a place other than Antarctica where mosquitoes didn’t live and people willingly brought them there? Wtf humanity?

@crackedemerald4930

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't mosquitoes only live in the continental tropics?

@MatanuskaHIGH

4 жыл бұрын

Cracked Emerald no they have always lived in Alaska🤷‍♂️. Differ t types of mosquitoes. Pro tip. Hate mosquitoes buy a Thermacell. Best money I’ve ever spent they give you a 15x 15 ft area of no mosquitoes. Works in Alaska so it should work anywhere with mosquitoes. We have times where the mosquitoes are so think you go insane but thermacell creates a invisible area they don’t want to come near so keep in on you or near you.

@kathryngeeslin9509

4 жыл бұрын

@@MatanuskaHIGH Appreciate the suggestion. In Texas we definitely have mosquitoes, and everything they carry. Thanks.

@MatanuskaHIGH

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Ryan I swear by it.

Having first heard about the microbiota-brain axis in a lecture, I think we should also take a moment to appreciate how gut microbiota keep us healthy. Although the precise interplay is not clear, it seems like that certain bacteria in our gut impact decrease risk of acquiring certain neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease. Species of the genus Akkemansia might even increase the efficiency of anti-cancer treatments (I made a video about this some weeks ago)! Really astonishing how much we still can learn, right?

@aamirrazak3467

4 жыл бұрын

Life Lab Learner the gut microbiota is fascinating it’s incredible how much they affect our behavior and that’s just bacteria, we also have viromes of all different viruses in us as well

A lot of these remind me of Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. He's got every disease at once so none of them can kill him.

@KEVMAN7987

4 жыл бұрын

"So your saying I'm invincible!" "No! Even the slightest..." "So I'm invincible."

What do you call a microbe on your spine? Backteria

@krizcillz

4 жыл бұрын

bump

@schylersmith1484

4 жыл бұрын

Bravo

"Australia is full eucalyptus trees" Or, it was anyway...

@mursuhillo242

4 жыл бұрын

Oh no you did not. Also the number of au-naturel barbequed koala buffets is higher than ever before

This channel and its sister channels are THE best. And microcosmos is truely a blessing!

Australia WAS full of eucalyptus trees :(

@christelheadington1136

4 жыл бұрын

Aren't they extra flammable ? Seems like I've heard that, their oil or something.

@JoaoPessoa86

4 жыл бұрын

@@christelheadington1136 they're kind of designed to start fires so their seeds can sprout

@johncrocker4209

4 жыл бұрын

Is this an argument against Koala?

@Warriormanners

4 жыл бұрын

All the fires create ALOT of nutrient rich soil in the future to grow more in. Ashes are really nice for that after a fire.

@Nemoticon

4 жыл бұрын

Wrong, Australia is mostly full of sand

Saving koalas with crapsules.

Poplar is a great wood for guitars as well. Poplar burl is gorgeous.

I have a friend who’s chemical engineering dissertation was on microbes that could digest rubber because recycling car tires is kind of near impossible. She’s very risk averse so I remember that at some point someone from a Chinese university wasn’t sure how to get a sample of “bugs” through customs so they posted her a book with a like sample bag bookmark. She must’ve thought it was anthrax because she autoclave’d the whole package! I think the mechanical engineers would have just yolo’d with it but maybe there’s a reason that we didn’t get an autoclave (the undergrads are savages who would probably try to make extremely grilled cheese or something)

@dimman77

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm, this makes me think of what happened with coronavirus. Sending microbes in a book to evade customs seems astonishingly reckless.

Thank you! A hug from Honduras!

Hank, how did you not mention The Journey to the Microcosmos? Rest of you, if you haven't seen that channel yet - go sub now! Narrated by Hank as well, but in a calm voice (yep, he has that), and each video there is indeed an incredible journey into the microbes lives! And yes, there's a vid of tardigrades having sex. Hurry up before KZread takes it down!

@Tinyvalkyrie410

4 жыл бұрын

Why would they take it down?

@AndrewPick6

4 жыл бұрын

Tiny Valkyrie it’s a joke.

I was hoping you would talk about the ones eating radiation in Chernobyl or the ones eating plastic in the ocean

Wow he didn’t plug his channel Journey to the Microcosmos that’s about microbes in this video. What a humble guy.

@ezachleewright2309

4 жыл бұрын

It's in the i thingy.

Would be cool if scishow did a video on how plant propagation actually works. As well as plant cloning. It's always been a slight fascination on how my teddy bear vine cuttings will reroot and start to grow another vine. I got the plant about 12 years ago and it's still going strong.

Awesome content. Thanks!

Wolbachia? Like, the bacteria I treat heartworm-positive dogs for to weaken their heartworms before we start the more traditional heartworm treatment? Fascinating.

Hey scishow I have a class and we were talking about blood types and I was wondering how did blood types evolve and why do we have them?

@gnomee9447

4 жыл бұрын

They already did like 6 or so episodes on this. Go to the Sci Show channel page and type "Blood Type" into the search field. You're welcome.

@downinthevalley9757

3 жыл бұрын

there's also a PBS eons episode about how blood evolved in the first place that's really cool!

I’m taking AP biology. To see the sheer variety of sub fields within biology makes my head spin.

Love love loovvveed this episode.

Great episode love to see more on microbes

Amazing report. Keep up the great work :-)

I’ve always been fascinated by the transferring of gut bacteria. Just imagine, people getting cross pollinated with kuala gut bacteria. Then they’d be able to eat eucalyptus leaves without dying. I mean, the ability to just turn anything into food just seems like it has far more implications. Than anything else named in the vid.

@lrfcowper

4 жыл бұрын

I don't recall when or where I read it, or who wrote it, but many years ago I read a science fiction story where we'd created a way for humans to digest cellulose, whereupon humanity basically wiped out all the forests.

@addyshorhnr3544

2 жыл бұрын

@@lrfcowper that’s assuming that if we could eat wood we would. Only would be useful in 3rd world countries

Awesome shirt, Hank

Absolutely love his shirt!

"Oh, so this is gonna be about practical biological warfare." "This bacteria actually strengthens the mosquitoes immune system!" "Ah, so it'll be about helpful bacteria, gotcha." "Also, this makes mussels explode from the inside!"

Aaahhhh giraffe shirt!!! I love it!

great video

Oh those poor coral 😱😭 & those other poor animals!!

One other fungus changed the course of medical history: Penicillium

That's a marvelous shirt, Hank!

"Although it can short birds lives, it can't kill them". I Ithought that was the definition of killing. hahahahahha

Love the giraffe shirt ....and the video

Like this one thanks Flint Michigan could use this too

It's nice to mention also bacteria that break down plastic

Bes scientific youtube channel! Cheers from Germany

This video is my damn jam

Muscle-free beaches, you say? Not if Muscle Hank has anything to do about it!

I was gonna comment but I am not koalafied.

OMG - I love your giraffe shirt.... Oh, it was an interesting talk too.

8:01 Dammit, I tried to find that illustration from bogleech about Kermit's last days, but it seems to've disappeared from the web.

Here I am casually eating ramen while listening to a story about baby koala's rating poop.

Awesome shirt

We're finally realizing that we didn't need to invent nanites (or nanomachines) they've already been there all along.

Nice giraffes, Hank. Also, your hair looks very smooth.

The host is very friendly and funny

You know he was thinking of Prof Farnsworth when he said good news! I was expecting everyone 😂

Giraffe shirt! Yes!

Aussies love their koalas, so I think you can rely upon them to ensure their survival.

That was the smoothest segue into an ad that I've seen in a long time

@DancingDread

4 жыл бұрын

@Evi1M4chine good thing or not it was a good segue

When one of the tress removes TCE from the ground, what happens to the TCE? Does it get converted into something harmless, or does it re-enter the soil when the tree eventually dies (or air if it is burned)?

WOLBACHIA

I wondered what happened to the igNobel award-winning study with rubbish-eating panda poop, or rather bacteria isolated from it. It seemed like it might be a hopeful way to deal with rubbish, reducing domestic waste by 80-90%, presumably including plastic rubbish!? I wondered if other animals eating tough plants, including other smaller members of the grass family, had similarly powerful bacteria hiding away. Mealworms happily eat polystyrene/styrofoam, and that's something to do with gut bacteria as well. I mean dung can have environmental consequences when mass released, as can bacteria. The bacteria behind the orange grime on shower curtains was experimentally mass released over an area in America and it had long term ecological and health consequences. It always surprises me however that plastic being essentially just hydrocarbon like everything else has less microbial breakdown and that nothing significant has evolved in order to take advantage of the energy source that is now so ubiquitous, and thus break it down. I have a feeling that some refuse tips have got some plastic breakdown going on. I don't know if anyone is checking!?

Fosters is Australian for beer and Messmate is Australian for coffee-whitener.

I already knew about the koala poop thing. From anime of course.

@alexwan2077

4 жыл бұрын

Seton Academy?

I love that giraffe shirt.. I need one

U should do a paradox video

detergent ads made us feel that all bacteria are bad, and games made us feel that every creature that looks scary are born to attack us frantically without any need to consider its own survival

I love that shirt

Did anybody watch that episode on South Park? About the poop transplants..

The spice melange!

I think the concern for any tampering with nature is that a microbe may do good for certain things, but what if the microbe affects something else? Something else could be adversely affected by certain microbes artificially introduced for another concern. Then the balance game - Does the good outweigh the harm? Thank you for sharing helpful and informative videos!

Microbes saving the planet from disaster.

3:15 there's room here for more research....shows picture of SLEEPING koala...lol

What if we eat pap? *Big Brain Time*

@rin_okami

4 жыл бұрын

No thanks. :P But fecal transplants for humans are definitely a thing, especially for people whose gut microbiome got wiped out from aggressive antibiotics.

@pierrecurie

4 жыл бұрын

@@rin_okami I heard it's mostly used for nasty C Difficile infections. They aren't the best at competing with the other bacteria, but they can resist chemicals (eg antibiotics) like no other.

@mr.krusty3739

4 жыл бұрын

@@pierrecurie that sounds scary

Why is it scishow psych and not psyshow?

@nicolettey

4 жыл бұрын

CommanderBond AJA Brilliant question

@ezachleewright2309

4 жыл бұрын

Because then we would not know which one they were talking about when said aloud.

Make a video about Paul Stamets please.

I know one of those superfund sites in Dallas. They marked one on Lemmon Avenue as a Texas Instrument problem. But they had a dry cleaner next door dumping TCE for 40 years. But because it was a black site site with with weird things like a million pounds of lead buried 300 feet underground and the invention of the microchip, people didn’t want to inventory what went on there. Now the dry cleaner has been replaced by the gayest Home Depot in Dallas. They still use the block of lead to calibrate gravimeters.

Some types of microbes are undoubtedly the earth's unsung heroes at a microscopic level.

Yes too sterile causes an inability to fight imbalances and microbial balance is a big key to healthy body function and also a key to curing depression ...well some forms.

I wonder if the zebra mussels are part of the reason the Great lakes cleaned up. They are filter cleaners?

Great power comes with great responsibility...

Oh man the Hawaiian birbs story is so sad 😭

That shirt is awesome! Where can I get it?

@sujimtangerines

4 жыл бұрын

bonobos.com/products/washed-button-down-cshrt00551?color=heather grey giraffes Edited to add: I don't know why the link is weird, I just copy/pasted it. Anyway, go to bonobos.com and search "giraffe." Several color and print options.

@andysnyder5637

4 жыл бұрын

@@sujimtangerines Thank you! This is truly what the internet is for.

I love it when microbes make my yogurt yogurty and my cheese cheesy, but I hate it when they make my yogurt cheesy.

As someone who grew up about a mile from the Lake Michigan shore, let me just say: eff zebra mussels. They eat so much that they throw the plankton balance out of whack, leading to this one algae growing like crazy. When this algae washes up on shore in hugs amounts and starts to decay, it literally smells like raw sewage. The stench is so strong that if you walked outside or opened a window where I grew up, it was like sticking your head in a sewer. So many summer days were ruined because it just stunk too damn much to go outside. You go, P. fluorescens- take these smelly buggers down!

At 2:06, habitat loss is driven mostly by increased agriculture. The land taken by urbanization is almost insignificant. Also, Australia has frequent wildfires. In prior decades, they have been much worse. Over 100 people were arrested in the last few months in Australia for setting some of these fires. So there is no proof that these fires were caused by climate change.

Hank, where did you get that shirt!?

Sadly, the bird you showed in Hawaii is an invasive species - the common mynah from India. And it may have brought Avian Malaria with it when it was introduced in the 1860’s.

This is just biowarfare to a neat degree

I wonder what kind of microbes make Hank so cheesey? o.0

I want his shirt, I like it

4:13 hilarious

yummmy... pap. We love subs, even pap subs!

Dropped like👍🏻

The kola sound like a fix for c diff

"Help keep corals afloat"... they are attached to the ground.

GIRAFFE SHIRT! "People who love giraffes who love giraffes"

"muscle free beaches"... the "people" watchers are gonna love that

Microbes: "Well maybe I don't wanna be the bad guy anymore"

They make your yogurt yogurty, you cheese cheesy and your life life lively.

Infecting mosquitos with wolbachia sounds like potentially disasterous. I mean wolbachia in other species is associated with the ability of the host to reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis and an increase in the percentage of the species made up of females (which is the sex that bite people and animals). So we could see a mosquito that is cabable of reestablish itself faster after droughts and insecticide campaigns, with a higher percentage of of the bity kind, and if we are really unlucky wolbachia might help them resist other bacterial and viral pathogens that is currently killing off mosquitos.