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Journey to the Microcosmos
Season 7 · Episode 46
What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
0.09mJuly 22, 2024
We’re focusing today on a Journey to the Microcosmos favorite: the ciliates, the single-celled eukaryotes covered in hair-like structures called cilia. We want to be more self-centered and explore what ciliates have taught us about ourselves.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
- Episode 2When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
- Episode 3The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
- Episode 4Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
- Episode 5We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
- Episode 6Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
- Episode 7This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
- Episode 8Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
- Episode 9Falling In Love With Microscopy
- Episode 10The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
- Episode 11Why Are Some Birds Blue?
- Episode 12The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
- Episode 13Floating Cities of Scum
- Episode 14Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
- Episode 15Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
- Episode 16Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
- Episode 17This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
- Episode 18Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
- Episode 19This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
- Episode 20These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
- Episode 21Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
- Episode 22Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
- Episode 23Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
- Episode 24What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
- Episode 25The History of Red Algae
- Episode 26These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
- Episode 27Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
- Episode 28We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
- Episode 29The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
- Episode 30This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
- Episode 31What Makes A Microbe Rare?
- Episode 32These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
- Episode 33This special diatom is having a very bad day
- Episode 34We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
- Episode 35These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
- Episode 36How Do We Find Cancer?
- Episode 37Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
- Episode 38This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
- Episode 39We Found Something Strange in Portugal
- Episode 40We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
- Episode 41You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
- Episode 42Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
- Episode 43We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
- Episode 44How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
- Episode 45Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
- Episode 46What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
- Episode 47Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
- Episode 48Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
- Episode 49A Collection of Tiny Universes
- Episode 50Some Microbes Also Take Naps
- Episode 51We Answer Your Questions!
- Episode 52We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
- Episode 53The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)