Join hosts Hank Green and Deboki Chakravarti as they take you on a fascinating, reflective journey through the microcosmos. With music by Andrew Huang and footage from James Weiss, we'll take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us!
Ok, but,... Why, Hank? WHY?! Where does the pseudopod's external material come from? Is there a limited amount of membrane to spread around? Is there a slurry of ingredients floating around that makes it on the fly? Is it just a reaction because some chemical signal is stronger in that direction so it kinda bends like phototropic plants? Does the cell itself "know" something that sends more resources in one direction while still keeping another area searching? What part of the cell actually decides which direction to send a tendril of this kraken? At what point do we find the OG algorithms? Viruses seem to have gone c+, but this thing is DOS, at least. Humans are barely multicore processing... AI is blowing past us, but it still doesn't seem to be able to explain why these bags of pre-programmed lego bricks keeps surprising us.... I'm just a bag of programs, aren't I? ok... "why am I?" Questions: logged. Hank, so you've answered many of the questions I've had, and most of the ones I didn't know to ask... now I have 10x more. 40 yrs of researching questions, mostly my own, and I want to know WHAT TO ASK NEXT. I like finding answers, but I've really had to hone my asking skills, just to find more questions to ask/answer... Guess there's no real question there... now where are my answers?
If you’re going to do the obnoxious arrows-all-over thumbnail, then you might as well go all in on selling out to the algorithm and have a reaction face, too.
So glad your still posting content! I finally launched my little Microscopy channel...Im still super tiny but excited never the less...goodluck to you on your new educational venture!
I'm sorry to report that I only watch these episodes when Hank narrates. The great efforts done by others to recreate his voice modulation unique to this show just don't cut it for me. Hank, please don't abandon this post. Thank-you. I'm I alone on this?
I always find it strange when you say that Kraken are mythological, when at least in German it's just a name for certain types of very much real cephalopod. Also isn't the mythological one a gigantic squid, not octopodes? Which not like they don't exist either. Maybe sailor's superstitions made them a bit more gigantic, and a lot more likely to attack ships. Humans probably have more to fear from a swarm of humboldt squid. More likely to meet and more aggressive too.
oh wow it's been five years, i was blessed by the youtube algorithm early on and found the channel in its first month, it almost being part of my weekly routines. I'll miss it. thanks for the great videos.
That's a scale bar! It gives us humans a reference to the size of the things on screen, and in this case, that line measures 30 micrometers (that u symbol is the greek letter mu, which is used as the abbreviation for the prefix micro-), so it's 30 millionths of a meter across.
This is one of my favorite channel science channels but all good things sometimes come to an end. Hopefully this will bring a new project for us to enjoy
