The Colors of the Microcosmos 

I can't help but imagine the little _Synura_ at 4:29 going "wheeeee" as they roll along.

I appreciate that you guys post on Monday so much. You make an ordinarily stressful day that microcosmic amount better.

"It lives in a graveyard birdbath" is the most metal sounding thing

I may not be green, but I too turn red when exposed to UV

Just another day in the office, hanging out at the cemetery, collecting microbial samples from the ornate birdbaths...

"Oooo... Look at that one.. there, by the edge.." "Which one? What color is it?" "Incidental." * heavy sigh *

*I'll show you my pigment. But only if you keep it a secret. 💚*

Would you mind posting the equipment you use to record this footage? I've been looking at microscopes to buy since you reignited my curiosity.

*Us Rotifers aren't transparent. Mere mortals are simply too primitive to comprehend our perfect and godly complexion!* *Even if they could see our true pigment, their eyes would explode from all the envy!*

This world never ceases to amaze me. I'm referring to the 3 people who disliked this video.

This is definitely one of my top five favorite channels. I really look forward to every video

8:06 Photobomber: ooooooOOOOWWEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo *rolls away*

I love Calm Hank. Considering it's Pizzamas, I imagine the households Green are anything but calm at the moment.

Thank you for contributing so wonderfully towards our understanding that we live in a microbial world, where most of life's history was microscopic, where most life on Earth today is still microscopic, and where all the macroscopic lifeforms we normally see are just huge colonies of cooperating microbes. Thank you too for mentioning how we didn't even know all that until very recently, as we often take that for granted, with most of the time us rarely appreciating the implications of that for both us and how we act towards the rest of the living world.

All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies. Living in the tide pools they soon forget about the sea...

My daughter got a digital microscope for her birthday and, inspired by this channel, we've enjoyed searching for tiny life in samples from our chickens' water bowl (which is filthy). Today we found rotifers (I think). It would be a very different video but would you consider giving us a behind the scenes look? The equipment that you use, how to collect specimens from soil vs water, how to prepare a slide, etc?

Ohhhh, I love the music on this one! As a photographer (not of the microcosmos) I love this video! Very fascinating.

I am digging on this micro biological series; love the photography and narration 😊👍 🤔🤔🤔 Would love to see examples of mutualism and symbiosis between both micro and macro organisms...specifically with plants.

Journey to the Microcosmos: uploads me: *Happiness noises*

Does the light from the microscope cause microbes in your samples to change color as they would in reaction to harsh sunlight?

You should try looking at samples with UV light, that would look cool

This channel makes my monday better. Also, that ciliate rolling that haematococcus cyst really amused me. What was it doing? Did it have an intention? I know its not really possible, but it appeared to be enjoying itself.

Love the voice of Hank and the script for the video :)

Thank you for contributing so wonderfully towards our understanding that we live in a microbial world, where most of life's history was microscopic, where most life on Earth today is still microscopic, and where all the macroscopic lifeforms we normally see are just huge colonies of cooperating microbes. Thank you too for mentioning how we didn't even know all that until very recently, as we often take that for granted, with most of the time us rarely appreciating the implications of that for both us and how we act towards the rest of the living world.

Ahhh, another fine film from the Masters of the Microcosm! You make me wish I could pass math and become a microbiologist. Can't, so won't, but I really love the filming and the narration. Thanks, and I'll check out these other efforts as well.

The classic intro "Dunh Dunh Dunh Dunh Dunh Dunh"

Love the aesthetic that underlies these journeys, Hope it pays off.

I never really thought about the color of micro-organisms. I'm glad you chose to cover the topic for us. Excellent video!

1:03 Oops. Lost his eye ball.

I'm a soil scientist and this channel makes me so excited for work.

Hank: "the 'cyano-' in their name implies another color..." ME: "CYAN!" Hank: "...blue." Me: "What?!?"

I just stumbled across these just now. I'm 65, and would LOVE to have had these to watch at school, instead of just copying line drawings from books.

Can you do an episode on diatoms? I'm really curious on why they are so rectangular and chain together like that.

Beautiful footage and music as always, thank you for another wonderful video!

Really enjoying these videos and the amazingly calm voice-overs. It also got me thinking: micro-organisms haven't evolved to be appreciated by us. But haven't we evolved to appreciate particular patterns; namely: natural patterns, which are often fractal? I'm not sure why we enjoy these patterns, but we seem to enjoy them a lot.

The music is amazing! Plus your vocals are soothing and calming like chamomile tea.

its honestly a highlight of my week to watch these videos before i fall asleep. Its so cool to me that theres a whole world full of life ive never seen before. These little creatures have had many millions of years to develop all around the world and to see this much diversity inside of a drop of pond water is really freaking neat. Never knew id love something like this as much as I do. keep inspiring us and dftba

"we have bodies and minds that have evolved to take note" 7:25

Man I just listened to some Neil Degrasse Tyson lectures and debates all day during work, now I come home and get this notification? Today was a good day to learn something new. This is one of my favourite aspects of RU-vid and by extension our technological society. We can share this intricate knowledge and understanding of our universe with anyone who is willing to listen! 💎

Any chance of seeing the microcosmos in non-visible wavelengths in future videos?

Yay a new video! This of my new favorite channels ,and Dang that seems like a clean drop of water drop.

Love the whole discourse about our observational bias in regards to the pigmentation of these microbes. It's both scientific and philosophical. Keep up the good work!

Am I the only one who much prefers this soothing (but very informative) off-camera Hank to the hand-waving, foreign language mispronouncing, manic on-camera Hank?

Wow, so smooth, thanks Hank, I love this so much...

Journey To The Microcosmos should absolutely continue!

I love your videos and the narrators soothing voice. However may I point out that at 2:10 you say "when we find beauty here it's not because there is any advantage to that beauty, it's just luck." I believe you should use the word serendipity here instead of luck. Ok, on to watching the rest of the video, thanks.

I just saw Hank in the list of patrons. Cute.

Talking about colour, what are those images with a blue background? The little creatures are shown as green, orange, all kinds of colour, yet the background light appears all blue.

This is one of those times where being colourblind is bad.

Hmmm. I wonder if this is why my stems on my plants turn purple when they are hit with excess light, the cells produce astaxanthin thus turning purple as a way of protecting themselves.

going to look now, but do you have videos on mycology or are you interested in mycology? The symbiotic nature of our soil is amazzzzzzinggggggg :)

I can't help but to mention that green is the color plants don't use, since it's reflected, they use all other wavelengths. Some speculate that since our sun is strongest in the green spectrum, they use all other wavelengths to not be over saturated, but cyanobacteria that are more blue than green may be trying to use the green more, instead of reflecting it. Just a thought.

My girlfriend told me it was either her, or I keep watching this channel. RIP Steph, I'll forget you in 40 years when the Alzheimer's is too powerful

Oh boy!! My favorite channel!! Another fascinating, informative and meditative journey to the Microcosmos! 🔬

1:14 This Uroleptus is kind of pretty in it's own way, like a squishy little rainbow that zooms all around.

love that the synura are just spinning along. they look like a bunch of grapes but spherical

Your vocal stylings are so beautiful and soothing. The microbial Attenborough!

They should really consider uploading in 60FPS

The writing and voice acting is top quality, but the stunning pictures steal the show.

Love this series. It's, awe inspiring, the footage is exquisite and the commentary wonderfully informative and beautifully written. Thank you all very much.

i want to see a top 20 list of your videos wait i just realized we only have 20 videos

Love theese you be killin it with your narration thanks

I find it fascinating how color green is right in the center/bull's eye of the human eye visible spectrum. Might it be because our eye sensitivity evolved around focusing mainly on green.

Will you make an extra episode on microscopes? Maybe a peripheral?

I would really love see some of the process of collecting these microbes. Something like when you go out to collect water and how you process it to find the microbes in the microscope

I love these videos but I struggle to watch them as I find Hank's voice so soothing I want to sleep.

5:06 Exercise ball in outer space

I love the way you make perfect sense of the chromatic effects of light on these organisms relative to our own limited perception of wavelengths. I wonder how they would look under UV. So glad you make these wonderful videos - thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!

How do you learn to recognise what is under the microscope?

i love the magnification indicator in the upper left, even if it is only relative given different window/screen sizes. it would also be helpful to have an indicator of when and how much the footage is being sped up from real-time, if ever. i struggle to tell since i've never looked at anything alive under a microscope and don't have an intuitive sense of how fast each of these little critters move.

Always an amazing video here. Thank you!

I'm fully colourblind, still enjoyed the video

Hank doing his Morgan Freeman in yet another video...

“Wonderful things”! I’d love you to mention the type of illumination used. As an old microscopist, I love to know (I can guess). Do you sometimes us vital dyes to enhance contrast?

Every aspect of the videos is well done. The writing is beautiful. I can’t get enough of this.

I love them rolly bois photo bombing everything.

I could listen to Hank recite poetry about a whimsical plastic bag and fall into absolute bliss.

I want to get a microscope for my channel, but I haven’t decided what I want to get. I wish I could see a list of different models and price levels. Can you make a microscope episode? Like a buying guide? Also the methods you use to record video?

You talk all the time about complexity and design and then talk about evolution. When we see a building we can tell there is a builder, when we see a book we can tell there was an author but when we see dna/rna (called the book of life) and see all the design from not only these tiny organisms but all the way up the to heavens we say OH NO, THERE IS NO CREATOR. It is the only time we deny it... its just kind of crazy to me bcuz if they evolved anf started out with just a body then why have a mouth and where did the food come from for that mouth and what happened while the mouth was still evolving and how did it eat before the mouth was there... Obviously it was all ready to go and put in place all at once because nothing else makes sense when you start to break down evolution. I used to believe it bcuz it is all they teach in school but when you get out of the indoctrination and try to work through what we've been taught, it just does not make sense. Check out Ray Comfort speaking to college professors who teach evolution, not one of them can back up whag the believe and teach... its concerning

every upload i look forward too you guys rock this is beautiful

I never in a million years would have guessed that a man's voice talking about teeny tiny ..."things" could be so soothing to listen to. I'm a 48 year old male btw 😆 😴 😴

Absolutely gorgeous. How fortunate we all are to live when for the very first time we are able to see images like these.

*Fascinating episode as usual*

Every single frame of this video could make a amazing profile picture

As usuall, the quality never goes down from TOP quality, not only these kind is remedy for hectic monday chaos, but these is informative and relaxing. now im wonder if we are the micro, what type of us? since the universe are very big,

After watching dozens of these amazing videos I have yet to see one where you don’t gush over your “Billions of Years” religion of Evolution. You are quite the salesman of thin air. From an ameba to man there must have been more than a few significant changes in the creature, but we have yet to dig up even a single example of that process in the fossil record, or in existing life for that matter. After “billions of year” we see that an ameba is still an ameba, so shouldn’t there be quite a number of divergent branches that still show signs of being “amebish” while also “something more”? If your religion of Evolution were true wouldn’t there be far more examples of combinations rather than just completely different life forms? A rock is not a tree is not a chair is not a dog. How about you just lay off selling your religion and just make real observations of real things really seen. Ain’t that cool enough?

This channel is so important. Don't ask me why I wind down listening to what is basically a documentary, but a drink and Microcosmos video and I'm so softened down I can sleep. And dream sweet watery dreams of beautiful shapes and colours. The world is magnificent.

1.5k likes and 8 dislikes... 8 too many 😉

I notice that even though their patreon donations are up to about $5k per month, they still haven't upgraded any of the equipment and the videos are exactly the same quality and released just as frequently - what happened to these promises that the patreon money would be used to make better videos more often, and get better equipment? This channel posts the type of content that will basically never be demonetized, and the content is very cheap to produce. They credit only 6 people in the video, and all but one I know for a fact do work on a bunch of the other complexity youtube channels meaning their sole job isn't just working to make content for this channel. How on earth do they justify needing $5k+ per month to sustain that on top of all the ad revenue?

I don't get it. If it is green because the rest of the spectrum is absorbed, how can something that uses more of the spectrum reflect blue as well as the green. Maybe I have my additive and subtractive colors mixed up but I thought, with our RGB eyes, seeing an object as cyan means more frequencies were reflected. Now I need to go find a video on pigments, how does mixing blue and yellow paints translate to green in our eyes?

Imagining the disembodied Hank voice after the wrap, returning the creatures to the graveyard birdbath, amid benevolent, mellifluous wishes. You should feel no obligation to correct me if that did not happen.

Question about chlorophyll: is it just the one pigment making the green colour, absorbing both blue and red light? How does the organism input the different energies into the same photosyntesis pathway? I am thinking about how in photosynthesis electrons get excited in the reaction centre of photosystems, and probably need to gain a very defined amount of energy for this. There are also other chlorophylls around, but what happens if they absorb either blue or red light, how do they always pass the same energy to the electron being excited? Does excess get converted to eg. heat?

Would love to see some microbiology about Candida glabrata. Got it in a New York City hospital last year and it has been drug resistant and I still can't kill it. There is not a whole lot of indepth information about the microbiology and disease pathology as it relates to the bladder, where it is affecting me. A cystoscope revealed ulcers and chronic and acute inflammation from infection. I know this is a long shot, but any info on this could be a life changer for me.

Beauty at so many levels.

Fun fact, color green, so intensely mentioned in this video was named after Hank Green, the man who is the host of Journey to the Microcosmos. Sorry, I'm not sorry. Thank you Mr. Green, and the rest of the team for sharing this with us!

Is it just coincidence or you follow university curriculum when publishing these episodes? The organisms shown and explained in each new video match what we study that week or previous week.

I regularly put these videos on in the background to help me sleep. Hank's voice combined with the soft background music is just very soothing :)

yes hank, you are the american attenborough. in your 40s you will mastermind the USA version of the BBC. i'm hypnotizing you...

At 1:05 Hank explains that the coulour we see is what is not absorbed, but reflected. Wouldn't it be transmitted light we are seeing here? Which has me wondering why is the transmitted and reflected light the same? I understand it's both the stuff that isn't absorbed, but what actually leads to light being reflected? Why doesn't everything that isn't absorbed get transmitted? Does it get interact with molecules and get absorbed but re-emitted in other directions?

Dope video Hank and team. Def thought you were gonna bust out a UV or IR microscope after 7:47 and somehow be able to capture that on cam but I don’t know if that’s even possible or if the microbes give off those wavelengths tho