Hot Chip Challenge - Can Microbes Handle the Heat? 

I missed the LIVE !!! ... but its always a pleasure to watch your videos ! Gracias amigo !!

I usually prepare questions before the live stream, and start them with "off topic", or "For the Q&A". This also gives me time to phrase the question correctly and give all the info that Oliver needs to respond. But I like this format, Oliver gets the time to present his theme, and we are assured that our questions are addressed.

I bought glass tealight holders and they are made of thick heat resistent glass and are heavy and are as good as block dishes. I bought 7 for £0.50p each.

you inspired me to get back to microscopy after a short break

nice one - Carolina Reaper chilis are about 2 million Scoville units - in comparison, the Habanero is up to 350,000 and Jalapeno maxes out around 8000 I use OBS for my micro shows too, but as you discussed having a group session I use Streamyard on my music/tech channel called SynthAddict, and I could host up to 5 more visitors from my end if you want to add my shared session to your live OBS stream one day 🙂 just an idea

regarding the live vs. printed chat comments, it's hard to get folks to format all of their questions and comments- I've tried it and it can be too random emojis are too tough for mobile viewers to use easily in chat (people like me often watch on the phone), so you could have folks start a comment with Q in comments that are random questions and a Q+ for questions about current onscreen items during live you only have to answer Q+ questions and later answer any Q or non -labeled questions via the printout - you can easily see the Q variations if everyone starts a comment with a Q or Q+ - it's not much to ask regarding the chat during streaming - I have OBS almost fullscreen for my shows, and I use the popout chat in YT (another window) to have a narrow column of chat right alongside the OBS window - that way I can see more chat at once and it stays where I left it when I lat scrolled it so I don't lose my place during streaming - you can also drag through the last read comment to highlight it if you need to just a few suggestions 🙂 they work well for me

this is a really interesting video idea!! awesome

This summer I was dealing with a lot of thrips on a plant and people said to use a little bit of soap and oil in water so I did but didn't notice any changes in their behaviour. I caught a larvae and used a magnifying lense to get a closer look at it and then I sprayed the solution on it. Nothing changed! After several minutes no change, after an hour nothing even after a day it was alive and *swimming* in the soapy water. I tried various concentrations and it was really difficult to get a success in dealing with the thrips so I have no idea how other people do it. People were saying that the mix of soap and oil would break open their body like you mentioned earlier in the video but it didn't seem to happen. The thrips larvae are really tiny, you can barely see them with the naked eye, I think they might be smaller than the mite shown in the video.

Interesting 🕵️‍♂️

mit dem Saft roter Peperoncini habe ich beobachtet, dass sich Mikroorganismen bei genringer Capsaicin-Konzentration schneller bewegen, bei hoher Konzentration jedoch langsamer oder ganz bewegungslos werde.

poor worms

Tardigrades