These Death-Eating Scavengers Are Real Life-Savers | IN OUR NATURE
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Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprising ways. In this special limited series, Emily Graslie and Trace Dominguez join me as we explore the universal rules of life that tie together Earth’s living systems. In episode 3, we look at ecosystems at their largest and smallest scales of time and size from the Serengeti to Andrews Experimental Forestin Oregon. How does the cycling of nutrients and molecules make life possible on Earth? Who are these recyclers and scavengers? Sometimes this recycling happens fast and violently, and sometimes it happens slow and beautifully.
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Life is literally just a self sustaining chemical reaction and, at some point in the deep past, chemistry became biology for the First time. Always blows my mind to think of that.
but chemistry is physics also :)
Abiogenesis
@@Chris-op7yt eh “Physical Science” but not Physics
The earth is a boiling buzzing chemical soup.
RNA World Hypothesis?
"I love a good poop story."
-Emily Graslie, Science Communicator
The Minute Earth crew will surely second that. Speaking of whom, a collab would be fantastic.
Well, gee, who doesnt?
I love it's ok to be smart, I dint care who its aimed at, I love listen to this guy share facts that he is really happy about knowing
It is aimed at people who finds it intressting
I hate what the title implies.
It is aimed at people that will enjoy it, for whatever reason.
The best teachers love their subject.
I personally don't like the scripted reactionary back and forth. Seems so forced.
I find this everlasting circle very reassuring ! It actually helped me process my grand mother's death. As said in Avatar, all energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back
And we incredibly lucky lifeforms get to be energy that can actually think and experience the rest of the wonder of creation! That is amazing and wonderful!
@@tessat338 Woa.. We can think?!
Water is also borrowed. The water in your pee could end up in the sweat of someone on the other side of the planet ten years after you peed it out
well, we are breathing the same air the dinosaurs breathe, and the same water they drank. I think 😅
@@MarkWTK I've heard that but I don't know if it's true. There's no other water source that we know of besides Earth, but there are patches of air and gases in space and on other planets. Maybe that means our air is recycled all throughout space and not exclusively stuck on earth.
I was told by my biology teacher on middle school (sort of) that we were all bits of carbon, making funny things with the elements we take from each other, and that was right. Then I got to read Carl Sagan. Now I get it.
I like how Emily is the nerdy agent of chaos while Trace is the voice of reason 😆
"It's 5 or 6 inches long!"
And she's generous.
It is okay to be smart and realize this 👉 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
i hate these hipster nerds
they try to be cute, but this interaction is so staged and contrived
making all these childish remarks, as if it's organic and spontaneous
then they burst for with wikipedia knowledge of the subject
it doesn't phase the fanboys, who don't mind being duped
they have no critical thinking skills
they are stupid
@@dprfail it's a produced series which no one forced you to watch. Seems like your filled with alot of anger. It's a scripted show with writers and researchers and editors... Not understanding what you thought it was.
Joe is like the dad in this, love the dad jokes.
@@ivangordienko8081 from that one joker vid?
Emily is so inspiring with how excited she is about everything and anything science related. Love how you can tell that she is so obsessed with learning new things. Keep up the great content. Can't wait for more PBS and Graslie content.
Now, stop obsessing with her.
Next time she is in the LA area, Emily should do a collab with "ask a mortician". That would be hilarious
It is okay to be smart and realize this 👉 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
This series is absolutely fantastic! It's so nice to see passionate people talking about science. You guys are an inspiration to me!
Much love from Brazil ♥
I want to like your comment, but I can't ruin a 69. I will come again later.
I made it 96
Oi ludo ñ sabia que vc assistia esse canal
Uau ludo, em nem uma semana eu cruzo com você duas vezes, primeiro no canal mystiverse e agora aqui. Divertido ver nosso encontro de interesses.
It is okay to be smart and realize this 👉 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
There's something remarkably comforting in knowing that we're all part of a universal machine. For me at least.
Yeah. All life is really one big family. I just ate my distant cousin, a banana.
So true. For me ir was psychedelics that gave me this Notion bafore those experiences I always ignored it. I can Dell you im way happier now. this is The God they talk About and a work of art at the same time.beautifully designed like us
Emily seems to be a super cool person to be around with, she just got herself a fan 😁
I love both her channels. She’s awesome.
Check out the brain scoop she's the spokesman for The Field museum of Chicago and has a channel there although she hasn't posted lately
I love her and her father
Sadly she left the field museum last year.
She just started posting again on her new self-titled channel. Yay!
You all are making outstanding content with this series.
CZcamsrs out here making better documentaries than traditional media outlets
It is okay to be smart and realize this 👉 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
The two hundred year tree decomposition study really gets you thinking about how radical human life extension would impact how we do things as a society. How would we think differently about the impacts of our decisions? What things might we invest in because we'd be around to see the results? Would the draw of instant gratification feel less compelling? If you were told you are going to live two hundred years and be _compos mentis_ throughout all of it, would you take on twice as many things or focus on getting _really_ good at a few things?
About the timescales of trees. The oldest living thing in the Buffalo (NY, USA) Zoo is a tree that is outside the primate exhibit.
Bonjour, stranger.
I thought this channel's comment-section, if any place,
would have smarteristic and smarttastic people.
So i wanted to ask your opinion of a Project of mine,
trying to help youtube help itself - getting it to become less
of what can only be described as 'Messy' without wanting
to use hard swearing...
Hate, Threats, P0rn, Racism, Sexism, Scam, Spam-Bots, P0rn-Spam-Bots
and much more. Oh, and of course the new Kid in Town:
The Covid-Denier/Mask-Hater.
All of them are non-subtle (some more than others)
and therefore easy to find.
I used the reportbutton as it was originally intended;
not as Cancel-Culture but to help.
I mean, the r-button exists. Ist not a Myth. But truth, so to speak.
Get what i mean to say?
Just this week, i got 1 Covid-Denier-Channel (yes, the entire thing,
not just 1 video) and 2 Open Racists (Users, not CZcamsrs) removed.
And this feels good.
No, its not a 'Wonder-Miracle-Solution!!', but who needs that? Do you need that?
Yet, i feel confident about this enough to ask: Wanna join the Fun? The helping?
Both?
Sorry for the long comment and sorry there is no
Miracle-Hyper-Super-Solution, but hey, its cost-free and
totally-your-own-time-schedule, as well as just plain fun,
so i hope such Package is good enough for you.
‚Smart’ is in this channels name, after all, so i hope you at least
consider helping CZcams and the Internet... cause it sure as fluff could
need the help, tbh...
I’m not a big speech-maker, so my comment is obvioussssly lacking;
so go on and ask some Questions, as is being smart.
Mufasa had it right:
"When we die our bodies become the grass. The animals eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life."
Do you think that writers of the Lion King just guessed is and it happened to be right? Lol!
@@hittingyouoverthehead Oh definitely not. People have understood the basics of the circle of life for millennia. It's a big part of a lot of the world's oldest religious beliefs.
@@GuyNamedSean It was a sarcastic question. I graduated high school, thank you.
@@hittingyouoverthehead sarcarm rarely comes across in text
@@luuk_twister2068 I actually understood its sarcasm
This perspective comes naturally when you learn about ecologically friendly farming methods. The industrial perspective is to just keep dumping tons of artificial chemical fertilizer on the fields. But when you try to avoid ending up with unused nutrients all ending up in the rivers, you have to really look into how vegetation growths in a closed system.
Not gonna lie, I was dreadfully waiting for the lion king song the entire time. Mad respect for the only disney reference being about hyenas.
I'd like to see you do a follow up show on you're take on how human burial rites impact this cycle, in both method and sheer volume of bodies. We sure to use up a lot of nutrients in our lifetimes.
I always wanted to be incinerated when im gonna die cause i thought getting eaten by bug was gross , but now I kind of find it beautifull, it has changed my mind.
Doubt anything really wants to eat something that's been pumped full of formaldehyde anyway.
Rest assured, you'll just slowly rot for a long ass time.
@@jarv7441 well that’s comforting.
@@shavongolbourne7987 anytime man, anytime
@@jarv7441 That's not true. The body is quickly decomposing well before the body is in the ground.
@@MMAFightMagazine hence the chemicals morticians use on corpses to slow it down
What an absolute treat this show is! Great to see three familiar faces, along with their familiar senses of humor, presenting their wealth of knowledge and fantastically interesting factoids. This was very, and I mean very well done, guys! Chapeau!
This is really a very interesting and even a very important episode. I wish everyone with a tendency to pave the whole world with concrete, glass and tarmac would get infected by the awesomeness of these ecological processes. So extremely important for us all. Thanks, makers of this video!!
And this is why I’m getting a green burial in the Cairgorm mountains in the Scottish highlands. I want my body to become part of the landscape I love so much (after organ donation of course). Plus, trap that carbon!
Is that the one where you’re buried under a tree/sapling, or the one where your body is left out for scavengers to eat? Either way, I’ve often thought about some form of mountain ecosystem final resting place. The highlands are a great place to go
this is why i love science. Science will always be my thing where I can binge watch or read for hours and hours. just fascinating.
The way of presentation is excellent! How it's presented as one friend explaining this new thing they've learned to two other friends... !!chef's kiss!! Your chemistry, enthusiasm, your passion for learning and teaching is a gift
Great stuff, I've been looking at the world in this way since I discovered permaculture, that's almost 20 years of people laughing at me because I said micro-organism. You've all done a great job in explaining the fundamentals, from the micro to the macro scale, brilliant useable educational content.
Thanks.
I really like this series and I bet I'd have loved it at school when I was a kid. Definitely has potential for school videos
And farmers.
probably. me at 11 liked it's okay to be smart alot, still watch them despite it being nearly half a decade
Finally the right message. The Rhizosphere IS Life. Without it, we can't survive, nothing can.
I see Emily, I click. I am not disappointed.
EMILY! I MISS YOU! Please make more Brainscoop! You're such a great science communicator and your videos are awesome!
She left the brainscoop 😢
@@rai1879 Is she making videos elsewhere?
@@rickseiden1 m.czcams.com/channels/cvl5k9VcZzGVmY-rG8UAMw.html
@@rickseiden1 Hello!! 👋🏻 over here 😊
@@EmilyGraslie HELLO! I don't want to gush, but you're one of my favorite CZcamsrs! As a matter of fact, Joe and Trace are some of my favorites, too! (Joe might remember me telling him that when he built the Lego Rocket with Craig years ago.) Thanks @Jacob Oakman for pointing me in her channel's direction. I just subscribed!
Emily and Trace have increased my addiction for this channel, they are really funny and Intelligent. Not to forget Joe.
“…I just get really excited about soil sometimes…” How very down-to-earth!
As an inhabitant of Oregon, it’s very nice to see someone get as excited about all my little backyard friends as I do. ;u; Thank you for showing off our millipedes and slugs. There are so many wonderful critters in these forests, and they all deserve their turn in the spotlight.
glad you didn't forego the puns this time. I literally live for these.
Also, I HOPE you 3 will continue this series!
So glad to see a collab with Emily. She’s one of my CZcams heroes.
Yes!
WHAAAAA SO EMILY JUST WENT TO THIS YT CANAL? I was so sad seeing that on her canal there's no more new content. I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE HER AGAIN
Dude she put up a video a few days ago about cicadas and the intersection of the art and science!! You have to check her OG channel tho, not the brain scoop
"i love talking about a dead things"
-Emily Graslie
yeah me too
I just love Emily, she's so funny and passionate about science. Please keep doing this amazing work!
"Nice planet you folks got there!" - Galactus
I went to a Wilderness Therapy Program. Literally lived in the temporal rainforest for 3 months, eating, sleeping….pooping and its AMAZING how you and other animals adapt to the environment. We followed a Leave No Trace rule , digging lats and understanding that anything we did leave was actually to benefit the environment. Truly amazing what you get to experience when you spend 24/7 in the wild and the mutual understanding you and other animals come to without even needing to communicate. What you learn from just being present and watching. The mosquitoes SUCKED tho, still have scars from those fvckers.
There is so much wonder in our earth and it's so much more than starting out at the Grand Canyon or hanging at the beach. Every organism, big or small, is contributing back to the long arduous process of sustaining life on this planet. Nature's design is beautiful and it's all of ours job to keep it beautiful 🌎🌲
I'm loving this group with you, Trace and Emily. I hope we get a lot more of you 3.
Emily is a really charismatic woman. She not only looks good but is very funny and relateable.
Getting content like this for free is TOP TIER
I love these 3 together.. they compliment each other so well.. and Emily is adorable.. just love her zest and her passion for nature..👍
I’ve been loving the recent videos; the hard work that goes into these definitely shows. Thanks for the cool content 🖤
This series is amazing! Can't wait for your next ep in this series.
What a beautiful discussion of death and decay. Even in the "finality" of life its contribution doesn't end. I'm with Emily. Let me feed the ecosystem when I'm gone
This ties in beautifully with this anime called Full Metal Alchemist. All is one and one is all.
The fact that the default building material is wood and historical houses are often hundreds of years old, it only makes sense that trees take just as long to decompose in the forest
If my chemistry and science class taught me anything is that everything happening in this world is the result of a reaction or another, even the most important reactions like protein sintesis are controlled by the same principle that control the salt's decomposition in water, all we are are chemicals concentrated and reacting one with each other and we are no more different than the same bacteria or unicellular organism.
Even though I really cringe looking at meat and bones are tiny creatures ... this series is hands down one the best things I have watched. Just mind blowing stuff really.
For all the things I could thank you for, I thank you the most for being so passionate about what you're doing and the things you're talking about
I’m LOVING this series, and this episode was amazing!
This was amazing, thanks for putting out content this good for free!!
This is really a happy and extremely informative video! Particularly new to me is Emily’s fallen tree part. Amazing!
Fabulous video, really. Thank you so much PBS and the team! I love this sort of thing, please make more like this!
That was soo beautiful! I once read in this story where a character said that anything that makes your heart beat faster is beautiful, and that video, the photos, scenes, and facts absolutely took my breath away.
More Dad Jokes!! He gets a head. LOL I love it! I loved this episode and I love this series! And I love you guys!!
I was in the Serengeti for 3 months 55 years ago. I was 15 and was awed by the varieties of (really weird) animals and the difference types of grass, but I had no concept of ecosystems. I wish I had had a chance to investigate some of the interactions, but I doubt there were very many people studying this at the time.
So, 500 years ago when one of those trees first poked itself out of the ground my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents were being born. Kinda gives you a perspective on our short-lived species.
Love your productions. It was well worth the 30 min of your final version.
You forgot to mention the Salmon as part of the PNW rain-forest cycle!
The brain-scooper woman! My fave.
I think of this system a lot as a suburban farmer, with 5000 square feet of crops, two big composters, and a septic system. Nothing that was once organic leaves my property. I bring some meat onto it, I bring 10 tons of wood chips onto it every year, and neighbors' fall leaves, but nothing gets taken out of the land: newspaper, cardboard, junk mail, food trimmings, branches (those get turned into wood ash), all of it goes into the system and feeds me. Dead stuff = more nutritious food = healthier me. (Now going outside to harvest main crop potatoes.)
Enjoying these so much, thanks for the mind blowing knowledge!
Finally, I watch the vid ab the things that I’ve been wonderin, like to see the nature from a different perspective with science behind it. Thx PBS. Love this❤️. The only thing that matters is that we human can take a lesson from this study is not to vastly destroy the ecosystem in our🌎 🐝🙏🏻
Emily's "Eeeeee..." just caught me off guard. LOL
Bonjour, stranger.
I thought this channel's comment-section, if any place,
would have smarteristic and smarttastic people.
So i wanted to ask your opinion of a Project of mine,
trying to help youtube help itself - getting it to become less
of what can only be described as 'Messy' without wanting
to use hard swearing...
Hate, Threats, P0rn, Racism, Sexism, Scam, Spam-Bots, P0rn-Spam-Bots
and much more. Oh, and of course the new Kid in Town:
The Covid-Denier/Mask-Hater.
All of them are non-subtle (some more than others)
and therefore easy to find.
I used the reportbutton as it was originally intended;
not as Cancel-Culture but to help.
I mean, the r-button exists. Ist not a Myth. But truth, so to speak.
Get what i mean to say?
Just this week, i got 1 Covid-Denier-Channel (yes, the entire thing,
not just 1 video) and 2 Open Racists (Users, not CZcamsrs) removed.
And this feels good.
No, its not a 'Wonder-Miracle-Solution!!', but who needs that? Do you need that?
Yet, i feel confident about this enough to ask: Wanna join the Fun? The helping?
Both?
Sorry for the long comment and sorry there is no
Miracle-Hyper-Super-Solution, but hey, its cost-free and
totally-your-own-time-schedule, as well as just plain fun,
so i hope such Package is good enough for you.
‚Smart’ is in this channels name, after all, so i hope you at least
consider helping CZcams and the Internet... cause it sure as fluff could
need the help, tbh...
I’m not a big speech-maker, so my comment is obvioussssly lacking;
so go on and ask some Questions, as is being smart.
@@loturzelrestaurant We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
(Give you up)
(Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
@@justarandomguywithamask7o7
Dude. Your not quite right in the head?
@@loturzelrestaurant I'm kinda high af that moment sorry
You are my hero Emily. I’ve been following your journey from volunteering in the lab at your college to the work you are doing now and I’ll continue to follow you on CZcams as long as I can. Your enthusiasm is contagious and your curiosity matches my own. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are a great example of how I hope my daughters live their lives. They are just now at the undergraduate levels. Yes you have fans in their 50s. Surprise!!
Loved it. You guys are doing so much hardwork and giving us the best amount of information. 👍🏻 A big thumps up and a huge salute to all your efforts. And also thanks for being silly in between
That was a great episode!!! Such fantastic story telling, humour and knowledge rolled into one. Awesome and inspiring work, thank you!
This is how I see the world and I'm totally at peace with death because of it. It's preferable to having a religion or believing in an afterlife. The ecosystem is my afterlife. It also helps me see past egotistic individualism because the self is only a temporary thing, the ecosystem outlasts me.
Yep sometimes I wish I can be 1 with nature
This video is so well done, and the enthusiasm of the three of them is just great
Absolutely love the different angle and hence perspective and insight you give in this show.
a 30 meter fall is a perfectly reasonable fear, Emily.
You get about 2 and 1/2 seconds to think about all the mistakes you've made leading up to that moment
I worked out the math. That's over 98 feet.
@@JiveDadson or tall enough for you to hit the ground at about 24 and a bit meters per second or 54 and a bit miles per hour
@@danielbickford3458 Her kinetic energy would warm the ground with about 3500 calories, accelerating chemical reactions in the earth.
Approximately 3 seconds to fall by taking g=10ms^-1
Emilyyyyyy!!!
More videos like this, please. Love the three of you talking about fantastic topics
I've always been thinking about this topic for so long now!😍💕💕🤩
Thanks alot for making this video 🥺
I miss the Brain Scoop.
It's correct to imagine us, Humans as the babysitter of nature, which we hired ourselves for, We are that person that stops a baby trying to stand because he/she will fall, but without falling there is no walking...Same like how we see WildFires, we rush to stop it where it naturally happens, but it's just a cycle, that the ecosystem thrives upon
But sadly, sometimes that babysitter hits the baby itself and damages it
i am really enjoying this series! it's so fascinating and awe-inspiring.
Emily Grasley is my spirit animal
I could do without some of the corniness in the delivery of lines, but overall, I agree, the circle of life moves nutrients around. I'd love (when I die) to be buried along with a seedling tree and allow my nutrients to feed the surrounding nature; I’m pretty sure it’s called a tree pod burial. This barring we haven't perfected a way to transfer our minds into synthetic humans of some sort before then.
Leave the flesh to enter into some inferior mechanical body!!
Agreed- especially with the corniness.
It's Trace who's being corny. The other two make it seem natural. He seems like he's trying too hard to be funny and keep up with them.
Emily, it would have been nice to see a demonstration of the kick test, and hear what the different tree decomposition stages actually sound like.
Joe, I live for your puns.
Love this collab between three of my favorite science communicators!
Amazing video, I love this series, great work :)
Damn, nature created a place that's exactly like The Barrens in WoW!
Emily cute af ngl
I'm so glad you guys decided to feature Emily Graslie! She's one of my favorite science communicators.
Didnt knew who Emily Graslie is before this video. Took about 20 minutes until i fell low-key in love with her.
This is my favorite video yinz ever did its truly beautiful
Thank you for educating me. That was a very interesting presentation.
wow, please keep talking about all kinds of environments .
i really love and appreciate your work.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this format of the video!
So glad to see Emily. I been missing you.
No, seriously. We haven't had a Brain Scoop update in a year. I really miss it. What gives?
amazing, one of the most incredible series about science ive ever seen
I’m in love with this series! Please keep making more!
Thinking of the circle of life as our elements being cycled around is one of the things I do most when I space out while high, it's pretty fun to now do it with this video while sober and focused
This is such a great series, brilliant work guys
Amazing series, thank you !!
beautiful - so well played and spoken
Amazing episode ! Thanks so much.