Ranking my Favorite Parasites | Tier List
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I appreciate your restraint to focus solely on parasites in relation to humans.
Which parasite would you say is the scariest? Like, which one would you suggest using as inspiration if someone wanted to make a horror movie that will DEFINITELY give people nightmares? If some horrible person said they were going to afflict one upon you, which one would have you screaming the loudest from fear?
Fuckin D tier for schistosoma wtf how about this video gets put in F tier do some research first
If you feel so compelled to see professor daves video on them
Forrest: "Kids and dogs and cats are the absolute worst because they can give you parasites!"
Also Forrest: "This parasite is *ADORABLE!* I love these little guys!"
“DOGS SCRAPE THEIR BUTTTS ON YOUR COUCH”
“What a good lil dude! Lookit that cute bütt!”
The urge to think they're so cute and smart for causing such severe disease is so strong.
Like, it's just a little guy who tried his best to evolve to evade your immune system and he did such a good job at it!!
- a microbiologist
The worms are particularly horrifying though, if I can see it moving without a microscope, I don't want to have eyes 🧑🦯
@@Beth-ux6jn how lucky that the worms can help with that then ???
@@Beth-ux6jnThey are amazing things in their own right, in terms of ingenious evolutionary strategies. They're also just rather revolting and bad for us at the same time.
So I learned that if you want to avoid a lot of different parasites then it's best not to eat poop
Or if you do, at least cook it first.
@@K31TH3R LMAO
unless you're a dung beetle. Some species thereof go their whole life cycle, from egg to egg-laying consuming nothing but faeces. (From Wikipedia) "Dung beetles do not necessarily have to eat or drink anything else, because the dung provides all the necessary nutrients." This sounds like a really shitty deal. And a grim existence
Parasite: *gives you horrible symptoms including but not limited to diarrhea*
Forrest: “I just think they’re neat!”
Oh Forrest, we love you.
"Cool little dudes."
I wish he could bottle his enthusiasm
Nope nope nope. All the nopes. The last time Forrest talked about parasites, I had to take a benadryl because simply describing the vile things made me break out in hives. Sorry boo boo. I'll be sitting this one out.
I'll leave a like for the algorithm, however. Have fun everyone! (...I guess 🤮😖)
Same.
Wow that's... a thing, hope ur doing better now ig
Fair enough, but why did you kill Earl?
@@mjjoe76
Because "Earl had ta Die" duh.
I saw the video title in my notifications and I was like, “Who would even think to rank these!?” Then I saw it Forrest and I was like “Yeah, that makes sense.” Creative idea Mr. Valkai
My favorite are those isopods that infest a fish's mouth , eat its tongue, Replace its tongue, And then get a share of everything that fish eats. The fish is clueless how awful it looks to the outside world. Parasites are a metaphor for religion.
I had two soldiers (Army medic) who contracted cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the central American jungle, so I became really familiar with it. Cut forwards to a few years later when someone came into the facility I was working in with an open lesion that wouldn't heal and when I was told the individual had been in warm countries with endemic sandflies I was like "Oh! That's Leishmaniasis!" The Nursing staff basically told me off (but you know in a kind 'you don't know medicine yet' sort of way) for thinking Zebras instead of Horses.
Yeah after the blood results came back in they sat me down and where like "How on earth did you know that it was this rare tropical parasite that doesn't exist in this country?"
This makes me not want to deploy to central America now if one comes up.
my dog has canine leishmanianensis. its pretty rough.
@isaiahlawson3034 yeah, best thing is it doesn't show up until months later. One of the guys who had it didn't come to me until 3 months after we came back (we'd actually come back, recuperated, and deployed on another overseas exercise). The first guy had already been diagnosed with leish, and everyone was sort of jokingly teasing him that the open sore he had was the obvious, so he stopped me, showed me the sore and was like "doc tell them I don't have leishmaniasis!"
Cue the obvious "uh maybe we should sit down and talk about this in private."
The good news is it isn't just central America. Its endemic all over North and Central Africa, South America, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. There are even cases of it appearing in Texas. So you don't have to worry about being deployed to Panama or anything like that.
@@isaiahlawson3034 If you are serving in the forces my advice (and the advice any medic should give you) is: Avoid wearing shorts or sandals. Long trousers and tuck them into your boots. Try to avoid sleeping on the ground; where possible deploy either a camp cot or hammock for sleeping, sandflies unlike mosquitos can get through nets but they also can't jump more than 1m off the ground.
Absolutely this. Tuck your boots. DON'T use the pretty-pinch elastic blousers to make it "look" like they're tucked. Quick way to get ticks, scabies, any number of parasitic animals that wait in grasses and shrubs.@@dernwine
I HAD SCABIES FOR NINE MONTHS MY SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
NINE
DAMN
MONTHS
IT ITCHED WORSE THAN ANYTHING I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE AND IT WAS HORRID AND NO ONE CAUGHT IT EVEN THOUGH I WENT TO A DERMATOLOGIST UNTIL MY YOUNGER BROTHER WENT TO HIS PEDIATRICIAN WHEN I SPREAD IT TO HIM
and then i saw a picture of them in my zoology professor's book my freshman year of my first associate's degree and that's when i fell in love with ecology
it was awful
it changed my life for the better, because honestly without scabies and the interest in ecology and zoology it gave me, I might still be a young earth creationist.
Wow! I’m sorry that happened but also, congrats on escaping YEC! I had it when I was really young but it went away fast. My peds was also a researcher at Stanford so he was extremely quick to notice that sort of thing. But also I didn’t get free of YEC until many years later so I’m not sure I got the better deal. 😂
New plan, infest all the YECcels with scabies until they explain how Noah carried them on his ark.
And why god wanted them to keep on existing. Sadism?
It’s like they are hyding the truth somewhere.
Post traumatic growth
Awesome comment 👍
My doctor said i have scabies but i think its my eczema that i had since i was a child because no one in my whole household has/had itching but me so i don't think its scabies
My wife has been infested with a parasite twice. This last time was shortly after we moved to cape canaveral. The doctors said there was nothing we could do and we just had to wait for it to incubate and exit on its own. So 9 months later the doctor removes it and hands it to me like I'm supposed to keep it. Apparently by law I have to feed it and shelter it for like 18 years. Anyway we named her Charlotte and she's celebrating her 1st birthday this month.
Omg, that’s hilarious! Good one!
Had me in the first half, ngl XD
😂🤣
Took me a bit to get it lmao
The parasites that make me the most uncomfortable are the ones that eat and replace the tongue so they can steal food from you and you starve to death. I forgot what they are called, but they can infect some saltwater fish.
I think the scientific term is "children."
Youre thinking of the "tongue eating louse" which is a type of isopod. Shockingly enough, unless a fish gets parasitized by more than one, the fish usually goes on to live a dairly normal life and the isopod just functions like a new tongue. Nature really leaves no niche unfilled.
Oh also, they only go after fish so youre safe but there is a movie called "The Bay" where a small oceanside town gets attacked by mutated versions of these guys which eat people so maybe your brain mixed the two ideas together?
@@iamjustkiwi I must be thinking of a fictional one that kills fish from a movie or something, but I knew there was a real one too.
@@Xbob42 Exactly
Yes! It's a kind of isopod. I consider them a metaphor for religion. The fish has no clue how awful and foolish it looks to outsiders.
Gonna catch em, gonna catch em all 💀
Para'sites!
this comment
Gotta eat em all
@@areallyshortbrontothere i know it's my destiny
@@bainides para'sites!
The schistosoma slander! They're not boring at all! They're the only flatworms that are dioecious and the male essentially envelopes the female and feeds her some of the blood he gets from the host. And they spend their whole adult lives like this. Also in German they're called "Pärchenegel" which basically means "couple/pair leech", which I think is cute. Also apparently schistosomiasis is the second-most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease according to the WHO, only beaten by Malaria
Please talk about parasitic barnacles. They’re pretty much root networks of flesh that branch inside crabs and sea stars and castrate them, growing massive egg sacs where their host’s reproductive organs were.
WHAAAAA!?!?!
@@cynvia4907 keep in mind these are CRUSTACEANS
@@idle_speculation oh, no. I got that... somehow that only makes it worse...
I was about to add _Sacculina_ to the list, but you beat me to it. Both fascinating and nauseating.
That’s horrifying. Who needs extraterrestrial Aliens monsters when we have oceans full of this happening?
"you DO NOT WANT TO GET ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER"
I can't agree more. I contracted RMSF in June after a tick bite while fishing. Was not actually diagnosed until after I was cured. If you get a tick bite and then a week or so later chills, fever, headaches, tell your doctor and implore him/her to administer the tetracycline that will kill the little bugs inside you (Rickettsia). By the time you get the red spots all over, you are NOT in good shape, and on the verge of severe damage and death. Those little red spots are your blood vessels bursting as the bug attacks the lining of your arteries.
When I was 15 taking ecology we studied parasites and I was for real traumatized. I had suppressed the memory for 20 years but you just helped me face my past issues. Idk how I feel right now… so I just became a member of the channel even though you said not to.
I’m with you 100% on this one, we studied tapeworms in ‘A’ level biology and I was traumatised for years. That was the best part of 50 years ago, and Forrest has just brought it right back.
My favorite are those isopods that infest a fish's mouth , eat its tongue, Replace its tongue, And then get a share of everything that fish eats. The fish is clueless how awful it looks to the outside world. Parasites are a metaphor for religion.
My favorite character trait of the Doctor from Doctor Who is how they respond to dangerous "monsters-of-the-week" with a sense of wonder and curiosity and just marvel at the beauty of terrifying things. Dude you have that in spades. I think that's what makes you so endearing.
Fellow whovian here - damn, you nailed it. Also the “you have as much right to life as I do” bit. Also the really good hair.
My top 3:
1: Ringworm
2: Rats with the plague
3: Uncle
So glad someone said it
Ringworm is actually a fungal infection btw
I was really hoping someone said this
Currently stuck in a truck with a guy who never washes his hands, so thanks for this Forrest 😂🎉
Did you play this for them?
I once ha a friend living at my place for a few years. He left, because we had dispute. On his way out he said I was a tyrant in those years. I asked him how, if he could give me examples. He had just one thing to say: "I've learned to wash my hands after going to the toilet, because I knew that you think it's disgusting to not do so."
Let's ignore that I never told him to do so, he decided himself to do it, and thus his definition of tyrant is somewhat questionable, because that's not the topic here. I'm really baffled that to some people washing your hands after the toilet is a strange concept. I didn't even know that he didn't do that before he lived at my place. The worst part is that he worked in gastronomy for years and afterwards as a cleaning specialist in a hospital (mostly doing surgical rooms). I also always had to do dishes a second time after he was done, because he was so bad at it.
Some people are just disgusting. While I don't have any contact with him anymore, I really hope he changed to the better, because I've heard that he has a child now.
Just lick his hands clean for him if it bothers you so much.
This may have been easier to mentally digest if it was accompanied by giant microbe plushies.
They exist!
I have all the STDs!! 😁
Cute little guys.
0:00 Halloween
0:16 Giardia lamblia (also Giardia duodenalis), poopy suction cups
1:10 Tapeworms (Cestoda, Taenia saginata), scolex... you can't just pull it out
3:16 Ticks (Ixodes scapularis), serrated mouth = decapitation
4:20 Trichinella spiralis, insist your pork is cooked to avoid encysting
5:34 Plasmodium falciparum, a dissertation on malaria
8:18 Sarcoptes scabiei, you can't scratch out this infestation
9:31 Botflies (Dermatobia hominis), don't look up squirrels!
11:19 Schistosoma mansoni, wear water shoes
11:38 Fleas (Pulex irritans), they carried THAT plague
13:06 Wuchereria bancrofti, elephantiasis can affect EVERY part of the body...
13:56 Loa loa, an AWESOME Halloween body mod
14:37 Onchocerca volvulus, the visceral horror of the one above
14:59 Enterobius vermicularis, anal depositors enlisting the help of children
16:10 Entamoeba histolytica, yet another poopy infection
16:56 Dracunculus medinensis, THANK YOU PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER!
18:13 Toxocara (Toxocara canis), felis is the better name
20:39 Leishmania (Leishmania tropica), this is the first time I saw Google enter safe search mode
22:22 Demodex folliculorum, you have them and will never know
23:55 Brilliant
25:04 ANTEATERS!!!
I just used Google and it was suspiciously able to guess 1st result what I was typing while trying to spell these names. Anyway, my favorite not mentioned is Dicrocoelium dendriticum. They get ejected in animal poop, eaten by snails, ejected in snail poop (slime), eaten by ants, take over the ant like a body suit, get eaten by a ruminant (usually cow), and make their home in the bile duct.
7:59 Paused to comment on the idea that parasites are really just doing what they do (I completely agree, they've just evolved to live that way and any visceral reaction humans have is an 'us' problem) before I noticed your little case of the 8 Kanto gym badges lmao that's so cool 😅
So, I don't have many as far as phobias, but parasites are the one. The idea of infestation will now be in my nightmares for a while. Thanks for that. Keep being fantastic.
As a parasite enthusiast I love your passion for these critters throughout the video! If anyone wants to learn more about parasites in our ecosystem there's a blog called Parasite of the Day that is all about them. Thank you for the cozy video Forrest
Pneumonic plague was so deadly and killed so quickly they used to say when you got "The Black Death" you would have Breakfast with your family and Dinner with your Ancestors . And what ? No Toxoplasmosis Gondii ?
I just ate, Forrest! I have a national certification in Food Safety for my job, and I had to learn so much about foodborne illnesses. The info about parasites you can get from improperly cooked or handled foods is seared into my brain for all time. I got to watch several videos of people getting parasites removed from their bodies. There was one where a lady was getting randomly dizzy, and it was a worm in her brain! I got to watch the worm be pulled out of her brain while it tried to wiggle away! It was so interesting and horrifying.
FWIW tapeworms are no small part of why sushi-grade fish has to be frozen (at least in north America) before consumption. Some purists dislike it but it does kill (some) parasites. With modern flash-freezing it probably does more to preserve quality (commercial fish is often frozen on the boat) than it does to diminish it anyways. Unless you were going to be eating it right off the fishhook.
It's the same in Europe, raw fish has ro be frozen at -something Celsius for 1-3 days depending on temperature)
I’ve watched too many seasons of Alone to be excited about eating raw Pacific salmon straight off the hook. Also, you can get trichinosis from beavers and it will frickin’ ruin your life!
Brain eating amoeba, absolutely terrifying. Something really visceral about a Parasite that doesn't just feed on your body but on your memories and mental faculties.
there is not a thing in this world that could’ve prepared me for “5 giraffes stacked on top of each other” idk if i should laugh or cry 😂😂
This video not for the faint-hearted or the sensitive and certainly not for the hypochondriac!! I am none of these and I have 78 years of healthy life under my belt without those delightful little critters involving themselves with my person, at least, not in the medically negative sense. Great topic, Forrest, enjoyed it immensely. The wish of guests at a wedding that they hope the happy couple' s troubles will be "little" ones, takes on a whole new meaning!!
Nematodes are underrated. I love learning about them!
Now please give us the lecture about the philosophy of biology
I don't know whether to be proud or disgusted, I recognized a good chunk of this list just by your images. As a vet tech, we are a sort of community educators on parasites. Your average unlicensed vet tech has more parasite education than your average human Dr. The veterinary community is expected to be responsible for educating society on parasites. I have actually seen a lot of the parasites I recognized under a microscope in real world conditions. I love your channel, and you.
Not related to most of your comment (altho, thank you and your people for educating the masses on parasites) but I don't think it's possible *not* to love Forrest! He's enthusiastic, super smart and extremely knowledgeable and that makes his teaching style really engaging and endearingly adorable!
I'm so pleased to watch his videos, he pretty much always makes me smile. He reminds me of my secondary school Biology teacher (who sadly died in his early 50s from throat cancer early in the academic year following my finishing high school and it was horrible) because he was similarly enthusiastic and knowledgeable and just super fun to learn from. It's nice to have someone like that to watch on here, just over a decade later. ❤
But yeah, Forrest, I love him too! 😻
I think people are much more open to hearing about parasites in relation to animals. But not people
I started watching your videos as a way to understand within myself why religion mixed with science never made sense to me, but over several months I’ve dived deep into biology and am now enrolled to study it for collage in a new passion I’ve never felt before. Thank you for this channel, you are a gift
Congratulations!!
That feeling of Forrest saying "Always cook your pork!" - while i'm enjoying a tasty Mettbrötchen ;-)
I survived amoeba hystolithica in Bolivia after 56 days of infection. I always thought that what was told to me when I got back to Rome, "You should be dead", was an exaggeration. I got shivers when you said down to 1%.
Why do I feel itchy and creepy like things are crawling all over me now? “Eyelash mites, how fun”!!!
”You’re my favourite parasite! No… ringworm’s my favourite parasite, you’re my second favourite parasite!”
-Arthur Morgan
Weirdly cool video, Forrest! You never disappoint!
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My skin itched a bit, but overall, had a blast watching this. I used to have a severe case of vermiphobia, and legit for the longest time never was really able to learn about animals fully, as I was always on the lookout for worms, I cured myself of that like in 2019-2020, so seriously glad because worms are probably one of the most coolest, fascinating animals on earth.
Best Halloween video ever, terrifies me to my core! Not just the parasites but also the fact that "some dude" is out there thinking they're cute and/or awesome. Thank you for once again provieng: real life is scarier than fiction...
I've had scabies twice. The first time was horrible, because it takes about a week before you notice. Any time after that, you notice within a day or two. The medicated bodywash we were given was formaldehyde based. Stings (and stinks), but kills them in 24 hours. Also had to basically boil our clothes and bed sheets.
And now just the mention of them makes my skin crawl.
About the tapeworms and that painting, 911 had an early episode in which a subplot was the firefighters/emt squad in the show responding to a call about a person in distress who was in that same position due to salmon sushi made from Pacific salmon. Another weird tidbit of info about tapeworms, the traditional cure for them in Sardinian folk medicine is a steam bath of milk and garlic under your head like you'd do with water and herbs to clear out excess mucus during a cold.
I did a parasitology module for my degree and fell in love with Trypanasoma cruzi that cause Chagas' disease. It's another one that can stay dormant 10 to 30 years after the initial infection and cause chronic heart disease and chronic constipation depending on where the trypanasomes end up. Ibalways remember seeing pictures of patient's hearts where the muscle wall was so thin you could see through it
Haven't seen the vid yet, but I bet you a 100 dollars that his enthusiasm is still of the charts. And that is why I love him.
21:17 I work with two researchers who are studying pharmaceutical interventions for Leishmania infections. It’s WAY under-studied, particularly because of its rarity, but we’ve had several visiting scholars from Iran and Egypt because people actually care about it there
That's so cool! I wish I could work with researchers and scientists and help develop treatments for deadly diseases!
Perfect Friday afternoon surprise. Keep being awesome, Forrest!
Before seeing the video, I'd like to nominate Babesia spp for S tier because it's a species that has sexual reproduction in invertebrates and asexual reproduction in vertebrates (ergo, it evolved to be a parasite of ticks and being parasites of vertebrates such as dogs or humans is a happy coincidence). I just think they are neat
Edit: I'm glad he chose malaria for a similar reason.
Also, I'd put trypanosoma in S tier because they have a fenomenal way of surviving inside it's host. Changing the proteins it has on the outside to evade immune response. And that also makes vaccines useless which is rare. Extra poikt because one of his species has venereal transmission between dromedaries (if memory serves correctly, trypanosoma cruzei)
Babesia is my least favorite TBD. A dog I adopted had it and it wrecked his kidneys. :/
well this was horrifying, thanks Forrest
thanks, this stuff is fascinating to me
Awesome!!!! Ty, sir.
Love your videos!!
Can't wait for the premium content!
I love your joy and enthusiasm for this, I enjoyed this video very much! Great work, Forrest!
Thank you Forrest! :)
Trichinellosis is very rare in the US since it has been virtually eliminated in the pork meat supply. The dozen or so cases that do occur come from eating undercooked bear meat.
This is sooooooo grody that its simply awesome 😂 go go forrest!
Another Forrest video, another day of learning something new.
This really was my dinnertime video. Loved it. 😊
Great to see a new video from you too, thanks 😀
Hell yeah! I remember you announced this a couple of days ago.
Thanks for another great video, Forrest! You’re the reason I’m going into evolutionary biology!
It’s been such a good week for epic UA-camrs doing epic streams but my connection has been crap this week
This is terrifical, thanks you for the lessontainmenting.
I felt so healthy when I started this video. Forrest! How could you?! I'm glad you exist, Bud! TY.
I would love to hear you lecture about the philosophy of biology SO much.
I want to thank you for this video, it gave me a lead on what has been causing me severe itching. I went to my dermatologist with information that the video pointed me at this issue. Anyway, thanks for the information.
19:19 finally someone speaks about it loudly
The House series has some good parasite scenes. Michelle Trachtenberg, from Pete & Pete and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was in a good tick story.
The first time I correctly diagnosed Leishmaniasis was an episode of House! :D
Man I just wanna say, your videos always make me small, I love your positive energy so much!
Also... man, I hate it that I cannot read the titles on your bookshelf. I kinda would love to see a video about your books and recommendations xD
Parasitology was one of my favorite courses! Love this video!
Love that in the drawing of the tapeworm being removed the woman is just sitting there like "Ha..."
Quality content
“People don’t appreciate the horrible things enough.” I saw that last AXP, Forrest. I think people appreciate the horrible things a little too much.
You did a video about disgusting parasites and you talk about them with enthusiasm.
You are just awesome!
This video kicks ass. I don't know why but I was so engaged for the WHOLE time. I looked up the stuff you said not to btw and it was gnarly yeah but also, WHAT a learning experience. I had no idea Guinea worms were going extinct because of water filtration! That's cool as hell! I'm having a great time learning about parasites :)
Laughed out loud when I read the title & the video did not disappoint!!!!!
PLEASE TALK FOR A LONG TIME ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY THAT SOUNDS LIKE SUCH A FUN VIDEO
"People just don't appreciate the horrible things in the world enough" is the most apt description of my pessimistic optimisim
Definitely looking forward to future October's when he does favorite spiders, snakes, insects, scary fish. Just saying it's a great easy way to make awesome content!
I don't know anyone else that could make an entire video about different parasites and somehow make it one of the most interesting videos I've ever watched! 😂
I'm giving you a like because this is an important topic, but I usually watch your videos while eating and gut worms aren't super appetizing. Love your work Forrest!
You are a rare and special dude. Happy Halloween!
Thanks for the flashbacks to vet tech labs -- definitely remember most of these. I agree about demodex, they're pretty chill as long as your immune system is working well.
I was surprised mosquitos weren't on the list. I guess because they're mostly vehicles for more harmful parasites, which, fair. And they're not as difficult to deal with as ticks.
18:00 the reduction is crazy, I did the math and this is around the percentage in 2021of the parasites original recorded amount in the 1980's 0.000429. That is 4.29*10^4%.
23:45 “They’re so cute!” he says, of a thing so small the only way to see it in detail is with a microscope. That’s so funny.
This is an awesome list! I am a new medical lab tech, and I got to see giardia and trichomonas just this week. Awful for people, but fascinating to look at 😅
Forrest, I usually love your content, but, I can't finish this one. It's legit gonna give me anxiety dreams.
this is so cool! I ended up doing my masters degree in biochemistry and structural biology, but parasites and parasitology are interesting! there is this finnish dude called Tuomas Aivelo who has a blog and a book about parasites and it is absolutely wild how diverse and complex parasites are.
"if you ever been a child"
That covers 100% of the viewers....
As a future microbiologist who loves all Forrest videos, I’m a happy camper right now! Maybe a video on the amazing things we still don’t know about microbes? Just an idea.
Top-notch fear-inducing content. Now I know what I'll never see coming 😱
How!! How Forrest, do you make EVERYTHING so cool and interesting no matter how gross or terrifying😂😂?? I fucking love you dude!
I hate this, but I can't help watching because it's so interesting. Thanks for giving me new nightmares. Keep up the good work Forrest!
"I just think they're neat" is something I never thought I would hear when talking about parasites
I want that lecture on the philosophy of biology so badly
very interesting video
I'm eating breakfast while watching this, thank you Forrest
Lone Star Tick - their bite can trigger an immune reaction that has the potential to leave a person allergic to red meat. And these ticks have been spreading due to habitat loss.
Deploy the opossums!!!!
Never stop learning! Or in my case... relearning. I have 2 degrees, 1974 and 1990 both in biochemical sciences. I went on to teach A level Biology, and then switched to computing so "missed" a few years of bio. So now, aged 72, I listen to you, Erica and Aron talking about cladistics! And parasites and all those newly discovered hominins. Need more books! Yay! And thank you... xx (BTW my eyelids itch 😒)
Wonderful video! Now, do a review video of them!!!!
Can we get that lecture on philosophy of Biology. I think that would be a great eye opener.
Forrest (paraphrased) on tapeworms
“I have been showing that painting to my classes for years!”
Also Forrest:
“Not goona stop me from eating sushi though!”
I imagine these lines are said closer together in your actual lectures ;)
It's not gonna stop me either! 4:24 Will also not stop me from eating raw pork.