Ariel Waldman: The colorful critter world of microbes in Antarctica | TED Talk
Ariel gave a TED talk and it’s mind-blowingly good!
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Life Under The Ice
Here’s the latest wonderful project from Ariel—explore microscopic specimens from Antarctica:
The collected Antarctic microbes were found living within glaciers, under the sea ice, next to frozen lakes, and in subglacial ponds.
Beautiful!
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
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Dicrocoelium dendriticum is a parasite that infects cattle by manipulating ants.
Once the parasite has been ingested by an ant, it compels the ant to climb to the top of a blade of grass every evening until together, they are ingested by a passing ruminant.
I wonder if the ant thinks that it decided to climb that blade of grass.
Humans are hosts to many microbes. A typical human carries ten times more bacterial DNA than human DNA: about 100 trillion bacteria.
We think that we decide to explore. But perhaps a human being is just a microbe’s space programme.