I usually save Journey to the Microcosmos to lull me to sleep, but I had to watch this one right away because I was very curious what you'd have to say about this deadly disease carrier. I'm the kind of person who is eager to find the beauty in things that no one else can see, and the mosquito is a challenging one. However, I think there are paths to defeating the diseases they carry without entirely eradicating them, as some people like to say is the only effective way we'll find. I am hopeful that humans are more empathetic than we are destructive, in the long run. Your voice is very well-suited to narrating this, and I hope you'll do it again sometime!
The NGO I work for distributes mosquito nets in West Africa to protect children from Malaria. Today is the last day of our July fundraiser for this effort. I shared this vid with my co-workers to motivate us to finish the month strong. Thank you for the timely vid!
...a phone book (if they even exist anymore?) or technical manual for the proper assembly, operation and maintenance for the conveyer belt of a grain elevator? 😏
ooh I've been looking forward to this! John has a very good voice for gentle, serious video-essay/audio-essay style work, I knew it would work so well for microcosmos! :)
You did a fine job with the narration, John. The script, as always was wonderful but I'm curious if you worked on it or if it was the usual writers alone ?
I remember when i learned (possibly from John) that mosquitoes are essential in some food webs. It ruined my day. Thanks for blessing us with this beautiful horror
1:20 They may look like a Christmas tree that's collapsed into a pile of Cheetos dust" Ahhh, John's way with words is always a pleasant surprise of verbal acrobatics 😍
@@1.4142 Fair enough. When Journey to the Microcosmos announced that John Green would be presenting, I immediately thought about the bacterium. This is a nice surprise, though.
one interesting thing is aphids have a thing in THEIR saliva that does the same thing to plants as mosquitoes do to us - stops the puncture wound immediately closing so they can continue to drink from it
@@NathanButh the reason I know this is (and this is probably more bizarre) a friend of mine was doing a thesis project a few years ago where they had to use a microscope to laser off the aphids mouth parts after they attached to the plant so they could use the mouth as a microscopic straw to analyse the contents of the plant? 😵💫 It was apparently INCREDIBLY difficult
instead of scratching, press your thumb nail into the bite a few times in a crossing pattern. theory behind it is a) redirecting the scratching reflex with something that doesn't break skin b) "tenderizing" the tissue so your body gets the clean-up done quicker
John may now be entering his malaria phase 😂 P.S. are we studying mosquito saliva at all? Preventing the immune response might be the key to defeating all of these horrible illnesses.
My main issue with mosquitos is how disorganized they are. I would gladly give them a solid 10ml of my blood yearly if they could just get their shit together and run a proper protection racket.
Dear John, please start recording bedtime stories. Your voice is perfect for it and I would love to listen to you whisking me away to dream land. Also you skipped every opportunity to say "BLUD" like a transylvanian vampire. These are literally vampiric creatures. Would you mind doing a video on malaria though? We have super effective measures against it. Mosquito netting is so simple but so incredibly effective. Doesn't quinine still work? A drug we have had since like 1800 or even before that? It only still exists because it doesn't affect rich people.
horrifying. truly. question; is the pictured mosquito alive or dead? are the leg twitches postmortem nerve impulses / something like the onset of rigor mortus?
fun fact, when hitting mosquitos with a zapper, you can usually distinguish male from female, because females filled with blood have a larger volume wich gives a nice *pop* sound. very satisfying to hear that sound after a restless night of misery.
The mere thought of a mosquito makes me very angry. I much prefer them when they're not biting me or keeping me up at night with their incessant buzzing, so this video is... nice.
Thanks for the video, and the lovely guest narrator. (brother, author, nerdfighter) 1 I can't stand mosquitos- I live in the South. 2 I know they clean water, liters per hour, but sheesh... 3 Do they spread tuberculosis also?
When I was a kid in Manitoba in the 70s and early 80s I couldn't go outside for an hour without getting a hundred skeeter bites but in the last 13 years I've been back to Manitoba from BC I can't recall being bit once, I see skeeters everywhere, walk through clouds of them on occasion, but they avoid drinking me like I have cooties or something.
@@eggsbox My blood type is the same as when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure I wasn't bitten by a vampire or zombie. I'm Type A+, my mom's Assiniboine tribe that was accepted into the Sioux nation after moving East in the early 1800s is actually descended from the Blackfoot tribes in Western and Central Alberta and her dad was Blackfoot, they're mostly Type A as well but most other First Nations indigenous people like the Sioux are Type O. My Dad's side is Welsh/Irish and Type O+, we're compatible for transfusions.
@@eggsbox I also hear they like alcoholics, I quit drinking years ago, hangovers suck ass, now I focus all my bad habit money on smoking weed. Maybe that's it, smoke weed to keep the skeeters away.
I just had a realization. A lot of the problem we have with mosquitos are somewhat porblematic for them too. They'd probably rather not attract our negative attention... a bit counter productive to the feeding process... and living in general. A for the desease spreading... killing your food source when you don't have too isn't the best either.
I know John Green and the microcosmos are amazing but I want the autograph of the individual tasked with capturing a mosquito and restraining it on such a small scale for it to remain alive and unharmed to be observed by a microscope.
I know it’s not coming and yet my brain can’t stop expecting “I give the microscopic visuals of mosquitoes four stars”. Guess I’ll go listen to the Anthropocene Reviewed for a seventh time (or eighth, maybe fifteenth depending on the chapter)
Ever consider how an itchy bug bite takes attention away from the other bugs who are still present? So when mosquito can bite you, then you kill it, that mosquito made it a little safer for the remaining swarm
I'm not allergic to local mosquitos. So I don't feel them bite or have a reaction to them. Very lucky that there aren't any communicable diseases they transmit.
I know this is an important topic for you, so this might have just been a special video, but could you continue to do these mini-macro videos? As a southerner, gnats are a bigger nuisance despite being less deadly, palmetto bugs are roaches that fly and cannot be drowned, fire ants are so venomous and numerous that a woman survived her parachute not opening by landing in a bed of them and being stung over 10,000x causing her adrenal response to keep her alive until paramedics showed up... We have some crazy bugs and I'd love to see them captured like this!
When the female mosquito finishes getting her blood meal, she withdraws the anesthetic from the puncture wound. If she is interrupted, doesn’t remove the anesthetic, then you experience itching at the puncture site. I wonder if the disease parasites, bacteria or viruses are withdrawn also so that the diseases are actually spread by stopping the mosquito before it is finished.
@@jonstfrancis blood borne diseases is possible because the bacteria/ virus could stick to the proboscis of the mosquito and maybe infect others, though I'm not even remotely an expert so I'm probably wrong.
Thanks for having me! -John
I usually save Journey to the Microcosmos to lull me to sleep, but I had to watch this one right away because I was very curious what you'd have to say about this deadly disease carrier. I'm the kind of person who is eager to find the beauty in things that no one else can see, and the mosquito is a challenging one. However, I think there are paths to defeating the diseases they carry without entirely eradicating them, as some people like to say is the only effective way we'll find. I am hopeful that humans are more empathetic than we are destructive, in the long run.
Your voice is very well-suited to narrating this, and I hope you'll do it again sometime!
it's awesome that Hank let his lesser-known brother get some exposure like this. You'll be famous at this rate, John, keep it up !
Howdy
You did great
Thanks for being such a good narrator! Edit: Love your euphemisms. Like, " looks like it's covered in Cheeto dust." 😂
There goes "the one who does Microcosmos" as a differentiator between the Green Brothers. Great job, John!
lmao
Still got scishow
The NGO I work for distributes mosquito nets in West Africa to protect children from Malaria. Today is the last day of our July fundraiser for this effort. I shared this vid with my co-workers to motivate us to finish the month strong. Thank you for the timely vid!
Thanks for what you’re doing! I know it’s not much from a stranger on the internet, but for what it’s worth…that’s amazing
❤🎉
John is an amazing narrator. I’d listen to him read just about anything. Just such an engaging-yet-soothing cadence
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The story of your enslavement 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
I agree! I wish he would do more episodes of his Anthropocene podcast!!
He'd be a great narrator on the Headspace app!
...a phone book (if they even exist anymore?) or technical manual for the proper assembly, operation and maintenance for the conveyer belt of a grain elevator?
😏
I'm surprised John's first journey to the microcosmos wasn't the tuberculosis germ
ooh I've been looking forward to this! John has a very good voice for gentle, serious video-essay/audio-essay style work, I knew it would work so well for microcosmos! :)
You did a fine job with the narration, John. The script, as always was wonderful but I'm curious if you worked on it or if it was the usual writers alone ?
If John didn't write it, I suspect the writers knew his voice well enough because it seemed to have that John Green touch.
@@dannywoods17 usually, the one who reads the script is allowed to change it for their own preference for a more natural read through.
The story of your enslavement 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
It felt like John wrote it. It seems most likely most of the research was done for him though
I remember when i learned (possibly from John) that mosquitoes are essential in some food webs. It ruined my day. Thanks for blessing us with this beautiful horror
1:20 They may look like a Christmas tree that's collapsed into a pile of Cheetos dust" Ahhh, John's way with words is always a pleasant surprise of verbal acrobatics 😍
I can't be the only one who expected to see a certain rod-like bacterium, but this still was nice to watch.
Bacteria aren't animals though
@@1.4142 Fair enough. When Journey to the Microcosmos announced that John Green would be presenting, I immediately thought about the bacterium. This is a nice surprise, though.
My first thought was, do mosquitoes play a role in the spread of tuberculosis?
one interesting thing is aphids have a thing in THEIR saliva that does the same thing to plants as mosquitoes do to us - stops the puncture wound immediately closing so they can continue to drink from it
So Aphids are plant mosquitoes, never thought of it like that before.
@@Neloish at least our mosquitoes have to actually breed instead of infinitely laying eggs that are clones of themselves 😭
Aphids are fascinating. Thanks for the new aphid fact.
@@NathanButh the reason I know this is (and this is probably more bizarre) a friend of mine was doing a thesis project a few years ago where they had to use a microscope to laser off the aphids mouth parts after they attached to the plant so they could use the mouth as a microscopic straw to analyse the contents of the plant? 😵💫
It was apparently INCREDIBLY difficult
So then, leeches are like fish mosquitos.
I was expecting tuberculosis but this is still on brand
instead of scratching, press your thumb nail into the bite a few times in a crossing pattern.
theory behind it is
a) redirecting the scratching reflex with something that doesn't break skin
b) "tenderizing" the tissue so your body gets the clean-up done quicker
I do not know where I learned that but I have been doing it since I can remember. My mom did not do it.
Huh, I had no idea that doing that actually helped... I definitely agree that it's a good way to redirect the urge to scratch!
Just put some ice or cold water on it and try not to scratch it at all, it will heal way faster than normal.
probably best to do this only with freshly washed hands though, nails can be pretty gross
I absolutely adore John! What a perfect guest narrator!
John may now be entering his malaria phase 😂
P.S. are we studying mosquito saliva at all? Preventing the immune response might be the key to defeating all of these horrible illnesses.
My main issue with mosquitos is how disorganized they are. I would gladly give them a solid 10ml of my blood yearly if they could just get their shit together and run a proper protection racket.
This is a p good hank green impression, wouldnt expect any less from his brother. Nice episode
Super interesting video topic and fantastic footage, as always!
So well written, so well read. Thank you.
You did an amazing job John.
Dear John, please start recording bedtime stories. Your voice is perfect for it and I would love to listen to you whisking me away to dream land. Also you skipped every opportunity to say "BLUD" like a transylvanian vampire. These are literally vampiric creatures.
Would you mind doing a video on malaria though? We have super effective measures against it. Mosquito netting is so simple but so incredibly effective. Doesn't quinine still work? A drug we have had since like 1800 or even before that? It only still exists because it doesn't affect rich people.
he has a podcast called anthropocene reviewed which i use to fall asleep. it’s amazing and i highly recommend it
horrifying. truly. question; is the pictured mosquito alive or dead? are the leg twitches postmortem nerve impulses / something like the onset of rigor mortus?
Yeah I was wondering that myself, and I can't decide if it's creepier for the mosquito to be alive or not...
John is amazing. We love him. Would be nice to have him as an occasional host more often
fun fact, when hitting mosquitos with a zapper, you can usually distinguish male from female, because females filled with blood have a larger volume wich gives a nice *pop* sound.
very satisfying to hear that sound after a restless night of misery.
Mosquitoes are my bedtime's bane.
Why do they need to buzz around my ear? I am convinced they're wicked little critters.
Interesting, Good information AND narrative
so, will John come back for tuberculosis-related topics perhaps?
The mere thought of a mosquito makes me very angry. I much prefer them when they're not biting me or keeping me up at night with their incessant buzzing, so this video is... nice.
Thanks for the video, and the lovely guest narrator. (brother, author, nerdfighter) 1 I can't stand mosquitos- I live in the South. 2 I know they clean water, liters per hour, but sheesh... 3 Do they spread tuberculosis also?
Amazon job! Just a note, the audio track for portuguese it's from another episode, it tells about potatoes.
wait how did they get the mosquitoes under the mico scope and keep them from flying away?
..."I give the mosquito one star."
It was both suprising and delightful that John narrated this! Love it!
Glad to see John Green getting around sense Crash course has taken off
I really don’t care how GOOD and GREAT this video it’s made, I still HATE mosquitos 🤬
frick yeah, you like those ciliates on your larva you frickin mosquitos!? hahaha that's what you meant to say, wasn't it John Green?
I never thought id be falling asleep to the soothing sound of mosquito facts 🙃
When I was a kid in Manitoba in the 70s and early 80s I couldn't go outside for an hour without getting a hundred skeeter bites but in the last 13 years I've been back to Manitoba from BC I can't recall being bit once, I see skeeters everywhere, walk through clouds of them on occasion, but they avoid drinking me like I have cooties or something.
fun thing there's certain blood types and pheromones mosquitoes are respectively attracted to and avoidant of
@@eggsbox My blood type is the same as when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure I wasn't bitten by a vampire or zombie. I'm Type A+, my mom's Assiniboine tribe that was accepted into the Sioux nation after moving East in the early 1800s is actually descended from the Blackfoot tribes in Western and Central Alberta and her dad was Blackfoot, they're mostly Type A as well but most other First Nations indigenous people like the Sioux are Type O. My Dad's side is Welsh/Irish and Type O+, we're compatible for transfusions.
@@eggsbox I also hear they like alcoholics, I quit drinking years ago, hangovers suck ass, now I focus all my bad habit money on smoking weed. Maybe that's it, smoke weed to keep the skeeters away.
I'll say this and some people might get this. The tightening spiral
Welcome to our world John. Great to see/hear you here :D
John's calm low voice hits different
I just had a realization. A lot of the problem we have with mosquitos are somewhat porblematic for them too. They'd probably rather not attract our negative attention... a bit counter productive to the feeding process... and living in general. A for the desease spreading... killing your food source when you don't have too isn't the best either.
Refreshing content 💚
I'm scared.
"The whole world, frightens and confuses me!..." 😁🤭
Thanks for a beautiful video
I'm glad to know more than I did.
I love that not so subtle dig at the end
thank you john!!!
I know John Green and the microcosmos are amazing but I want the autograph of the individual tasked with capturing a mosquito and restraining it on such a small scale for it to remain alive and unharmed to be observed by a microscope.
His voice puts my kids to sleep. Very soothing
Nice job John.
I know it’s not coming and yet my brain can’t stop expecting “I give the microscopic visuals of mosquitoes four stars”. Guess I’ll go listen to the Anthropocene Reviewed for a seventh time (or eighth, maybe fifteenth depending on the chapter)
The last scene is so creepy. Straight out of a horror movie
Ah, time for micro ASMR again, so relax, very sleep.
I really liked this episode!
why are they gold under a microscope? is that an accurate color or it by result of some process resulting from the tools used?
how do you find all those micro organisms?and how do you get such a powerful and beautiful microscope?
This was a cool experience, i enjoyed it, even though i get another wave of mosquito bites every time i step outside lol
Nice to hear a video narrated by John Green!
I swear the script is always so good. I would like to know who write them!
Ever consider how an itchy bug bite takes attention away from the other bugs who are still present?
So when mosquito can bite you, then you kill it, that mosquito made it a little safer for the remaining swarm
When you get the great value version but it’s better than the real thing
Great job!
I'm not allergic to local mosquitos. So I don't feel them bite or have a reaction to them. Very lucky that there aren't any communicable diseases they transmit.
I've never missed The Anthropocene Reviewed more than I do right now. Amazing narration, John.
I know this is an important topic for you, so this might have just been a special video, but could you continue to do these mini-macro videos?
As a southerner, gnats are a bigger nuisance despite being less deadly, palmetto bugs are roaches that fly and cannot be drowned, fire ants are so venomous and numerous that a woman survived her parachute not opening by landing in a bed of them and being stung over 10,000x causing her adrenal response to keep her alive until paramedics showed up... We have some crazy bugs and I'd love to see them captured like this!
Is there an episode of this on fairly flies? I hope there is
TIL the 'c' in proboscis is soft?
I'm sorry Hank, your voice is nice and all but we need more John narrations!
We can hear John's smile when he reads uncomfy lines.
Man I thought hank did a good job with these but holy cow. Why are they both really good narrators
When the female mosquito finishes getting her blood meal, she withdraws the anesthetic from the puncture wound. If she is interrupted, doesn’t remove the anesthetic, then you experience itching at the puncture site. I wonder if the disease parasites, bacteria or viruses are withdrawn also so that the diseases are actually spread by stopping the mosquito before it is finished.
John, please do more microcosmos episodes- if I imagine hard enough, you become Hank for a moment😢
science is absolutely awesome
Are you sure that title doesn't belong to us?
NO WAY , I CLICKED AS FAST AS I COULD I CHEERED SO FUCKING LOUD ITS 5AM OH BOY
This was a great video but it made me itchy. Mosquitoes are essential pollinators best case scenario we engineer them not to bite humans exclusively
Remember to change your pet water often in the summer.
Anything that has a face that can be described as 'stabby' isn't going in my mental 'charming' bin. Try as I might... it just won't fit.
Im Watching this video to get these pesky mosquitoes buzzing around me to watch your videos
It’s interesting how our small pests can potentially have small pests of their own in the microcosmos
I'm gonna need... more of john
oh, I go up close and personal with my palms
👏
I loved this channel but then it gave me an existential crisis. I still love it but haven't watched it in a while.
Mosquitoes give me complex feelings. Is it okay to want the complete genocide of a species?
Tbh, I think that every lifeform is beautiful in your own way, and if we look at the right angle, right lenses...even a mosquito can be beautiful.
Except mosquitos! 🦟
that was fantastic
So how does one get a mosquito to stay still? Blood training??
you can either collect dead ones or just use anesthetics for mosquitoes
What James do when in his samples are misquitos and don't want have some home?
in my area, they carry eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).
"I give mosquitos -4 stars."
SUPERB narration, John. You almost convinced me that muskies are romantic. Yuck. Do more of these great vids, please.
If they want the iron in our blood could we leave out molasses for them to chew on?
I thought I was the only one.I think mosquitoes are beautiful.
Thanks, now I itch
OMG it's Hank Green's brother!
The question is, does mosquito spread Tuberculosis?
I mean tuberculosis is a bacteria caused disease so probably, but probably unlikely because I've never heard of mosquitoes doing that.
Interesting. I've wondered more about them being able to spread blood borne diseases like HIV. TB is normally in the lungs?
@@jonstfrancis blood borne diseases is possible because the bacteria/ virus could stick to the proboscis of the mosquito and maybe infect others, though I'm not even remotely an expert so I'm probably wrong.
@@mrseriousv1 Same here, just curious about it really.
John, you nailed it! Awesome.
Top Notch!
"Unless you are the Mongols"
NOOO NOT THE MUSKY TOE A-GAaAaIN!