German post offices actually have a reputation for temporarily keeping tardigrades. It's a point of pride for them. "Look at us temporarily keep these tardigrades!" they shout, in German. They're laughing at you. LAUGHING!
What do you do with them after examining them? Are they kept as micro-pets? Imagine a whole basement full of bubbling tanks and mossy terrariums full of beloved microscopic pets....
Is a video on this channel showing pictures of James's lab it is full of jars and tanks scattered everywhere it looks like a disaster on the macro scale but it's a bunch of cute little biomes on the microscale
I know you've talked about how tardigrades are a little over represented but I really do just find them. Soothing to watch! they're simply just little guys, doing their best. Seeing the marine variety is super cool- and I'm relieved these ones made it safely on their odd little adventure. It just... hits a certain kind of way, to hear about a tiny little critter, surviving peril they didn't know they were in, from forces so huge and arbitrary to them... only for us to be here, massive and alien in every way, happy to see them. Just a nice thing.
Hank - I appreciate this show and all your others so much, and just started listening to John's Anthropocene book on audio. Just wanted to say you're both absolute gems and we're lucky to have you, thanks for all you've both done to educate and inspire so many for years!
Awesome video as always. I'm from Brazil and was curious when I saw that there was an option for Portuguese audio and went to listen to it after watching it in English. I must say, as a professional translator and proofreader, I was a bit let down. Seems like the text went through machine translation and maybe post-editing and the narrator had a robotic voice. It's a shame because the soothing and calm voice that you guys use - kinda essential to the channel - is completely lost, as well as the natural and fluid text construction. This feature is relatively new and I'm sure you guys are gonna up your game, just wanted to give you guys a heads-up! Your channel is amazing and I'm really excited about the opportunity for sharing it with my non-english speaking Brazilian friends!
Dang, those marine tardigrades look so cool. With their like horns, and really long sticky toes. They are like the bikers of the tardigrade world, with all the spikes.
I was just in Nova Scotia, Canada visiting family and I thought about contacting you to see if James would want a sample of fresh and/or ocean water to study. However, I forgot.
@@jamesweiss6745 Really?? I may actually be going back down in not too long (depends on a few factors), if you're actually interested, I can certainly try my best to get some samples to you.
Marine tardigrades remind me of being an undergrad Marine Bio major. My capstone ended up being, for various reasons I won't get into, a review paper on marine tardigrades - with the thought of/focusing on the possibility and likelihood of their discovery, and by which methods - mostly for the sake of speculation and planning about our local conditions: the rocky intertidal of coastal Maine (USA). My advisor/professor ended up later documenting a new one as the research suggested was likely (and has gone on to do more research and discovery since). I particularly remember having constructed a taxonomic tree of all known species + subspecies by hand (in Excel) since I wanted to provide numbers and run statistics but that required work that hadn't been done yet.
That's the first time a sponsor is relevant to me. I've been thinking about offsetting carbon for years but I didn't find a company that looks as good as Wren. You never know if their projects really are that game-changing, but to me, it looks like the best bet I can make to amend some of my impact (even knowing that credits' costs are underestimated across all carbon offsetting projects).
Ah, well. The Germany postal inspector was doing his rightful job. I think you can expect, though, that he has done his job thoroughly and well. That's the German culture. All in the name of protecting the biosphere.
So actually they were stuck for just a weekend? Isn’t it more or less normal? Like you could expect a package to be send on weekend too, but sometimes they can wait for a workday. Especially if it’s within EU but still international
Hey, some of the structures on that tardigrade are really small. If the scale in some of these images is 30um, that means some of the detail in the structures are about as small as the wavelength of green light, which would be about 7 few pixels wide in 1080p.... Is it ever a problem trying to image stuff that's comparable in size to the wavelegnth of light you're using? Is that why the background is blue
Oh my I've seen that you guys added Portuguese and Spanish voice-overs, that's very kind of you guys! But I I prefer the original English narrator hehe.
i barely make any carbon emissions i think. always stay home but i think most comes from factory’s and boats. maybe i can quit eating meat (from livestock emissions)
quitting meat would be great! but you can just reduce the amount of meat that you eat, if you like (itll be easier), and you'll still make a big difference!
@@RICDirector that's just blatently untrue. Also a lot of meat is raised or partially raised on grain, which needs to be farmed using those fertilizers you mentioned. But I'm willing to be proven otherwise if you can show some proof!
@@L83467 most meat, particularly in the US, is raised on grains, and the calorie/protein conversion is very inefficient. "Skipping the middle man" and eating plants directly would liberate vast plots of land that could be given back to nature to restore the ecosystems present before being cropland and give the biodiversity a chance to recover.
This is about Wren, not the video itself. It's honorable to empower individuals to lower their carbon emissions but in contrast to the carbon emissions from industries, our individual amounts are like a drop in an ocean. No amount of personal carbon reduction can ever match the difference we could make if we voted and pressured governments to tighten regulations of emissions. As consumers, we aren't even told what consumer products are emitting how much carbon. Corporations want all of us to think that taking personal responsibility is all we need to do, all the while they are allowed to commit crimes against the environment. We cannot and must not just stop at reducing our own foot print, it will never be enough.
I imagine probably not, but who knows they might be more clever than they appear. I personally would love to see studies of their memory and problem solving skills. The trouble would be finding tools and materials small enough to work on their scale, which I don't think we have yet.
Worked for twenty years in a drinkwater lab, doing biological research and control. There are very low numbers of Rotatoria or Gastrotrichae in your drinkwater. Never found Tardigrades, although there where present in the water my company used for producing drinkwater.
All plants need o2 to burn the energy they make. They need co2 to build the energy and that does create o2 but in a closed package the two gasses probably were not mixing well.
Did you know that BP (British Petroleum) was the first to coin the phrase "carbon footprint" and they are at the forefront of leading the pack with some of the best ESG scores. Weird funny world we live in.
Why do you include magnification such as "630X" in your videos? That number is meaningless. The size on my computer screen will be very different from the size on my phone. You include the scale bar which is the correct way of indicating size in these videos, so I don't understand why you also include the inaccurate magnification.
