Adam’s transition into being a dude who likes talking about his nerdy hobbies is one of the best things ever

@Discipline8193

21 күн бұрын

Being rich must be so nice. Endless time and space to pursue your passions instead of always working for the next check. He's earned it, so I'm happy for him.

@RobinPalmerTV

21 күн бұрын

It’s his autism reveal party!

@dejackarse7278

21 күн бұрын

I enjoy the big yaps

@DiMaggio82

21 күн бұрын

Facts

@mathieuhelie

21 күн бұрын

Same arc as the Top Gear trio.

Adam tries to speedrun evolution in his backyard

@user-ci7wn5im5i

21 күн бұрын

Speedrun to first biological lazer gun any%

@III_three

20 күн бұрын

He will then make clone of himself to ensure that he will never retire. Doomed to forever appease the algorithm gods.

@JustynHill-Hand

17 күн бұрын

He already has the crab, which is the end of all lines of evolution.

@user-uu9xk7rw6z

9 күн бұрын

was looking for this comment lol

Adam did a great thing by branding his channel with his own name instead of some kind of a food-based channel name. This way he can do whatever "Adam Ragusea" does and not what a "food" channel is expected to do. (edit) SEAfood Ragu recipe when??

@qui9

21 күн бұрын

I mean there wasn't really any branding to begin with. This really is just his personal google account afaik

@sirsanti8408

21 күн бұрын

You'd be surprised how many food channels are simply the creator's name

@alfaayed6262

21 күн бұрын

just like Pewdie, the channel contents are wider than before

@raresore

21 күн бұрын

What are you talking about, his channel name is literally ragu-sea

@JosieStev

11 күн бұрын

The Red Coats ❤

THE CRAB EATING THE FLOWER WITH HIS LITTLE CLAWS IS THE CUTEST THING THAT I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!! (3:54)

@deathhimself1653

21 күн бұрын

It's super adorable

@krankarvolund7771

21 күн бұрын

He looks like he's eating popcorn while watching something XD

@ginsoakedgirl4

21 күн бұрын

I'd watch a daily purple crab update!

@kg6801

21 күн бұрын

​@@krankarvolund7771🤣👏

@kenmore01

21 күн бұрын

Soon he'll be 8 feet tall and he'll be destroying cities along with his brethren.

Nice video! As a biologist, I really enjoy seeing Adam nerdying about these topics. Just one comment though: at 9:05 he says that land plants evolved from cyanobacteria, which is not the case. Plants are eukaryotes, which are veeery distant relatives of prokaryotes like cyanobacteria. Plants' chloroplasts, on the other hand, *are* cyanobacteria (or at least used to be). These organelles originated from endosymbiosis, when a distant unicellular ancestor of plants engulfed a cyanobacterium and, instead of digesting it as it normally would, developed an intricate relationship with it. Over eons, the cyanobacterium became part of the other cell. That is pretty cool ^^

@MichaelWilliams85

21 күн бұрын

It’s all just a theory someone told you

@JD-wu5pf

21 күн бұрын

​@@MichaelWilliams85Yes. A theory that's backed up by evidence. Like how gravity is just a theory someone told you about. Or evolution. Or germ theory. Or heliocentrism. Or that the earth is round. Or plate tectonics. Or radiometric dating.

@solalflechelles1216

21 күн бұрын

I think what he meant is that plants' ability to produce cellulose and use it for their cell walls come from their plasts, through some horizontal gene transfer.

@azilbean

21 күн бұрын

This needs to be a pinned comment ❤

@williamwomble3148

21 күн бұрын

Well if a foundational portion of a plant cell evolved from cyanobacteria I'd say its fair to say that what he said is true...from a certain point of view. After all, the archaeans that became our mitochondria would be as important part of our evolutionary story as the ancestor of the nuclear DNA part of our cell. If the union of endosymbiont and host cell was necessary for us to exist, saying that we only evolved from one and not the other is like saying my grandfather is only my mother's father and not my father's father.

Oh no he's becoming God

@timmccarthy9917

21 күн бұрын

You ask God how to season your steak and what do you hear?

@FoodFanBoy7845

21 күн бұрын

​@@timmccarthy9917 I hear him telling me to season my cutting board.

@CobaltContrast

21 күн бұрын

Why i worship my god and not my relgion.

@charliedoyle7824

21 күн бұрын

God is just a story. We have something much better: science; the ability to systematically test and understand reality.

@swedneck

21 күн бұрын

please stop praying for my grandpa, he's too powerful!

Adam could make a video on literally anything, and I would absolutely watch it

Fun fact about the Great Oxidation Event The title "Rusting of the Earth" isn't metaphorical. Before oxygen became such a prominent component of Earth's atmosphere, there was a lot of pure metallic iron just floating around in the oceans. But when all that photosynthesis kicked in, there was suddenly a whole lot of oxygen around to turn that iron into rust. We know this because in places all around the world, you can find sedimentary rock with alternating layers of iron oxides and iron-poor rock (alternating because, as Adam mentioned in the video, the cyanobacteria would photosynthesize for a while, then die back until oxygen levels dropped and start again).

@jubecube4117

20 күн бұрын

Gotta love them banded iron formations

@JCdu7426

19 күн бұрын

It was not "pure metallic iron" floating in the ocean, but iron(II) (Fe2+) dissolved in the oceans that got oxidized into Fe3+ (rust) which precipitates in water.

@mfaizsyahmi

19 күн бұрын

I also recall that it's not the same thing. Any oxygen produced would've immediately reacted with the iron ions, and there's a *uck ton of it, so it could not have built up in sufficient amounts, until all the irons had been rusted over and precipitated out. THEN the oxygen could build up to trigger the great dying.

@Gelatinocyte2

19 күн бұрын

And that dying-out-and-resurging cycle is how cells evolved/developed tolerance to what's poisoning them, or gain the ability to directly benefit from said poison.

This is a positive comment for the KZread algorithm

@scoobydoobielll5632

21 күн бұрын

This is a negative comment for the KZread algorithm. This video made want to commit crimes of a violent, sexual nature

@paintballercali

21 күн бұрын

No it's not.

@swedneck

21 күн бұрын

@@paintballercali yes it is, and this reply should hopefully boost engagement

@paintballercali

21 күн бұрын

@@swedneck more people need to argue in the comments!!!

@SZvenM

21 күн бұрын

@@paintballercali You are wrong, nobody should argue! (Oh, dammit)

Adam is certainly the only KZread foodie who can give a competent video about the origins of life, complete with his own terrarium.

@wxlurker

21 күн бұрын

If you are interested in learning or even making your own terrarium or aquarium I highly recommend checking out SerpaDesign.

@Jordan-ru8yf

20 күн бұрын

I’m not certain Kenji has the background (he probably does though, his dad was a famed biologist and Kenji got some sort of engineering degree from MIt) but I’m certain J.Kenji Lopez-Alt would be more than able if he were to do a bit of research. Also, it’s a bit disparaging to say no other food KZreadr could. Just because they don’t doesn’t mean they couldn’t. Adam and Kenji are both unique in that they don’t really care at this point about their KZread channels. For others, it their job, and often an entire team of employees job. Unfortunately, KZread algorithm promotes consistent viewership quality and content types for optimal success. This means very few KZreadrs branch out as a single poor performing video can hit later videos success quite heavily, unfortunately

@charliedoyle7824

20 күн бұрын

@@Jordan-ru8yf Adam has consistently shown a solid understanding and interest in science, especially food science. He has a lot of depth in chemistry and biology,. I'm Sure Kenji is a smart guy, but having a degree from MIT doesn't mean anything about what his interests are. If he's not a lifelong chemistry enthusiast he is unlikely to have the nerve or interest to make a video about such a daunting subject as the origin of life. Of course there could be a food KZreadr out there who could make a video like this, but none have publicly shown such depth in science as Adam, so it would be surprising.

@Jordan-ru8yf

20 күн бұрын

@@charliedoyle7824 Kenji is probably the most renowned test kitchen food scientist to have lived, and regularly applies chemistry to his work. His first book is called the food lab and could be considered, probably, the goto consumer textbook on food chemistry. Much of what KZreadrs do related to chemistry based cooking was popularized by Kenji (Adam/banish both readily admit to this often). I’m not trying to knock Adam, he’s great. And I’m not trying to nit pick your statement, I’m not aware if you have ever seen any of Kenjis stuff. But trust me, people like Adam are just following in the footsteps of Kenjis approach to cooking and science (which doesn’t mean they can’t be better at it, most science is heavily built on other peoples work). I am 99% sure Kenji could make a video about much of this content without much additional research and study based on his content and knowledge shown

@charliedoyle7824

20 күн бұрын

@@Jordan-ru8yf okay, fine. My point is mainly that if he doesn't regularly read about origin of life science and evolution, it's not likely he would take on such a project, even if he knows about the Maillard reaction and the PH of tomato sauce. Just listening to Adam go on in his podcasts makes it obvious how wide-ranging his science interests are, and how he enjoys communicating those interests.

Im addicted. Its crazy how im just following along becuase im so invested in his production. Everyrhing he does has so much flavor and zest. Hes a born online personality. Radio did him so many favors.

Your greenhouse is so gorgeous, im incredibly jealous. It seems like an incredibly peaceful place.

@justaway6901

18 күн бұрын

For reals

"the crab tank project" is a phrase my brain immediately interpreted in the coolest way possible

@NonJohns

14 күн бұрын

right after the crab train evolution

I originally came to this channel to learn how to make some pizza but stayed for the tangents and side content

The evolution of Adam's content has been one of my favourite developments of my modern KZread landscape

Cyanobacteria don't do photosynthesis "just like plants" but arguably they do it FOR plants! The plastids in the plant cell come from cyanobacteria that integrated within the eukaryotic cell to the point of being an integral part of it. This was the second time endosymbiosis of bacteria within eukaryotes gained them an additional and fundamental organelle

@OmniversalInsect

21 күн бұрын

Mitochondria came before chloroplasts?

@scaevolaludens679

21 күн бұрын

@@OmniversalInsect yup! remember plants also have those

@pascal6871

21 күн бұрын

So you're saying a tree is using hundreds of little terrace farms cultivating cyanobacteria

@scaevolaludens679

21 күн бұрын

@@pascal6871 it depends. are you using millions of little terrace farms cultivating Rickettsia bacteria?

@MatthijsvanDuin

21 күн бұрын

What's funny is that this enslavement of photosynthetic cells has happened recursively: a cyanobacterium became a chloroplast of another organism, which became a chloroplast of another organism, which become a chloroplast of another organism. There are also examples of protists which hunt algae and either steal their chloroplast or enslave the entire cell as an endosymbiont, but they haven't figured out yet how to make their photosynthesic slave reproduce so when the host cell divides one daughter cell inherits the symbiont and the other has to go hunt again.

Adam is like that one weird but slightly deranged cool uncle

@SamTahbou

21 күн бұрын

When you use "but" in that way we expect an oppsit connotation to the following descriptive, like weird but cool, if you say two thing that are both somewhat negative or somewhat positive then "and" is better, "weird and deranged" or "smart but deranged" weird but deranged has a weird aftertaste.

@maopedonz3983

21 күн бұрын

@@SamTahbou man you really need to chill, my boy just wanted to make a comment and you analysed every word of it. 😂

@toryumau6798

21 күн бұрын

@@maopedonz3983 … English majors, eh? >)X^D

@ShovelChef

21 күн бұрын

You're on the channel of a well spoken, scientifically literate, former journalist. Pedants are always in the woodwork. 😌☕

@Jelkluz

21 күн бұрын

@@ShovelChef just make sure your pendant doesn't get into any heavy machinery 😏

Adam talking about science is the best thing ever. Thanks for the transition.

Love how wholesome the whole aquarium saga has been

Love the loaches wriggling up above the waterline to nip at the terrestrial tasties!

Your home is so beautiful. I've always had a vague sense of what a dream house could be for me but looking at all of the green, the trees, and the little pond I'd like to imagine that that is a dream home. All of the green and the water tend to help my mental health and I'd imagine it does so for others. But here I am in desert SoCal

@chezmoi42

20 күн бұрын

My sympathies. I came from the Cascades in WA, so I can't imagine living in a desert.

I love the variety of his videos. Great videos that provide joyful and educational content

I absolutely adore this new format for you, Adam. So glad to see you doing things you REALLY want to make. It is obvious in your presentation and content!

The most important part of this video is that Adam has a crab, a very tiny very precious very adorable lil crab. I would die for that crab. Update: We must find this crab

You may be semi retired but the videos you've been making have been knocking it out of the park regardless!

"This is what I get for considering aesthetics" toooooooo real There are home projects that look good, and home projects that work. Never the twain shall meet

I loved the shots of the little loach or catfish beaching himself to get at the delicious goo.

That green house looks amazingly peaceful. I feel relaxed just watching that colorful crab eat that tiny flower

I love that the feel of your interests and channel is akin to @AtomicShrimp 's variety videos!. Thank you for sharing those parts of yourself c:

@level10peon

21 күн бұрын

Oh you’re right, AtomicShrimp is a great comparison to semi-retired Ragusea. I think AtomicShrimp mentioned being a fan of Ragusea’s a few years back too.

@alemholas

21 күн бұрын

@@level10peon A laid back, urban foraging challenge colab would be great!

I LOVE your recent videos. You've explained evolution very accurately despite having a limited timeframe and an audience that may or may not understand more academic topics. "Life is just stuff that self sustains, and it's still here because well... it sustains itself"

I really appreciate these new videos from prof. Regusea. Also those Vampire crabs are adorable and need names

Love seeing updates on your projects, thanks for sharing!! The aquariums and tbh the whole greenhouse are so dreamy!

Projects looking good, Adam! Thanks for sharing

Love your gardening adventures, Mr. Semi-Retired Ragusea.

It brings me great joy to be able to experience Adam's "listen to me nerd out about this thing I found cool" era.

Love your mind!! Been here for years, you cover all my favorite bases!

I'm loving this "I'm just gonna talk about stuff I find interesting" Adam arc. I always learn something new that will inevitably put me in a Wikipedia rabbithole until 4am in the morning!

That Terrarium / Aquarium is absolutely AMAZING!! SO FREAKING cool!! I could watch it all day!!

Love that crab tank, Adam! I'll go check out the build video now.

I love this type of content a lot. I would love to see more. It's right up my alley

So glad to see updates on these projects! Would love to see more aquaria and terraria and definitely whatever raised gardens you end up making 👍

I absolutely LOVE these videos! Adam’s able to explain the most complicated things in such an easy to understand way.

Loved the update at the end of the video, great stuff, keep it up.

I really liked seeing the follow ups on all your little experiments

I love the waterfall and river aquarium! 😻 Absolutely obsessed!

I love to see a new video of urs pop up so often. I also love u talking about aquariums as I am a hobbiest as well lol

As guy that subbed for the cooking videos, I absolutely love seeing the aquaria and garden videos! More of this wouldn’t be a bad thing in the least! I’d actually enjoy seeing more of it!

Thank you so much for showing us your aquariums, they are so pretty and I love seeing them! :)

I enjoyed the updates. I really like how things are going with aquarium, very cool

Love this transition into Adam's nerdy little hobbies and construction ideas

That's an adorably bright and colorful crab

You're a great teacher. I love your videos.

absolutely gorgeous greenhouse, adam. so cool. i've always wanted to do that

YES WE WANT MORE UPDATES ON THE TANKS Especially about these adorable crabs !!

your aquatic videos are one of my favorite.

I love videos like this. Great job Arag

Thanks for the updates on the plants 😄

i love the new version of adams channel even more and i hope it is still serving his personal/mental health goals. this is not the first time one of these has come out about a question that i've been thinking about but haven't read enough about to have more than a basic understanding of

Love the wider ranging video topics - more talk about plants and sludge please!

Great content. The beginning of life is always an interesting topic.

Wow this was awesome man! Love these kinds of tpics

One of my favourite youtubers talking about one of my favourite topics is a true delight!

Yes! Love the science and hobby sharing haha thanks for sharing!

Crabitat coming along gorgeously

i had stumbled upon your first tank video just a while ago and got sad that there was no follow up. i'm so glad we get to see it again!

Love greenhouse and fardening content! Greetings from Germany.

Thanks, Adam. I appreciate you.

Everything looks amazing

Your greenhouse is so pretty. I love it so so much. I hope someday i can make my own. Keep up the great work.

you have no idea how excited i got seeing it was you posting a video on this subject. like a giddy little girl.

I loved this video. Adam is just so engaging.

I love this turn the channel has come to!!

i loveee these project talk videos!

I think I've slowly fallen in love with this dude

dude! your greenhouse, aquaria and terraria are amazing! Love this "What Adam was thinking about at this point" content!

I love your uploads Adam

I'm all for this video. I might honestly not watch your videos as often now but I certainly still enjoy them and that sounds like what we both need, so congratulations and enjoy fading back into non celebrity status

Food videos are ok because you make it interesting with science stuff but these really are the best videos!

wow, i can't believe I've just gotten one of the most understandable and well worded lessons on early life on earth from Adam Ragusea... I love it!

Love you adam i would love to see more of your greenhouse 🌱

I very much appreciate the evolution of your website. You look much happier. From my experience, keep pushing the envelope.

thank you for the terrarium update

Nice work Adam.

Okay Adam delving into this stuff that I already have an interest in... YES MOAR

Ill say it again, seeing this channel transition into my biggest hobby (aquaria) is the best character arc of all time

Hey Adam, great video. I love the tank and the whole greenhouse! It's beautiful! I know other commenters have already pointed it out, but it bears repeating (and with a few other points) that plants aren't descended from cyanobacteria - or any bacteria. At least not in the traditional sense of the word "descent". Plants, like animals and fungi, are Eukaryotes, a type of cell with a membrane-bound nucleus and organelles. Bacteria (as well as their distant cousins, Archaea) as prokaryotes, which lack a nucleus. Prokaryotes are much smaller and simpler than eukaryotes, and they just have their DNA floating around in their cell, rather than being stored in the nucleus like Eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are thought to be descended from Archaea, rather than bacteria. So the single cellular ancestor of plants would have had a nucleus, mitochondria, organelles and all that, and therefore, would have been a single-celled eukaryote. So plants evolved from algae, which are other eukaryotes. Now, as others have already mentioned, there is a connection between plants and cyanobacteria. A eukaryote long before plants was able to incorporate a much smaller, much simpler bacterial cell into their own cellular system through endosymbiosis. This resulted in the development of chloroplasts, an organelle that helps in performing the function of photosynthesis for the cell. Some of those cells with chloroplasts became green algae, and eventually, land plants emerged from green algae that became more and more adapted for life on land. So plants aren't descended from cyanobacteria that developed multicellularity once they reached land, but they do have cyanobacteria inside of them. Plants are descended from green algae that made their way to the land, which are descended from marine green algae, which are descended from the marine-based common ancestor of most of the lineages of photosynthetic eukaryotes who swallowed a little cyanobacteria and didn't digest it but started working with it.

Hearing Adam talk about stuff always cheers me up

Great vid Adam!

Great video and thank you for the updates on tanks and tomatoes! Also, love the Beverly Crusher figure in there hehe (at least it sure looked like Dr Crusher to me)

The time has come for an Adam Ragusea - Brady Brandwood collab.

@oldfredbear

21 күн бұрын

April 1st, "This is Adam Ragusea here with Brady and tonight we're steaming lobster!"

@radudeATL

21 күн бұрын

@@oldfredbear 😂 LMBO poor Leon…

love your work

Okay, this is pretty good science education, good going Adam!

xtremely witty stuff man. was fun to listen to (greetings from Hamburg) oh yes, and the info is very well supported by the pictures

Honestly one of the best youtubers in terms of how human the videos feel

My dad watched some of this with me and found the star trek action figures amusing. And i think your pond is absolutely beautiful! It looks perfect

very cool update, thank you!

Love these videos!🎉🎉🎉

I love your crab too Adam

I enjoyed the main video as it was interesting and informative, especially as we have an explosion of blue-green algae in our main lake here in Northern Ireland... however I just wanted to say that I loved the update on the greenhouse and the other projects too. Petition to keep the regular updates coming as a treat at the end of the usual video.

I love the disco ball. I have a big one, and now I feel like it should go in my greenhouse