Tardigradology (TINY SEMI-INDESTRUCTIBLE WATER BEAR MOSS PIGLET CREATURES CALLED TARDIGRADES) with Dr. Paul Bartels
Image description: Dr. Paul Bartels smiles as he holds up and looks at a jar containing imperceptible tardigrade samples. He has a salt and pepper beard and wears a red shirt, black sport watch, rimless glasses, and ball cap.
Smaller than you can imagine. Potato-shaped. Mysterious. Romantic. And tough enough to survive the vacuum of space or decades of desiccation. Join professor and confirmed Tardigradologist Dr. Paul Bartels to saunter into a microscopic wonderland of bizarrely long naps, foreign genomes, moon landings, glow-in-the-dark moss piglets, cryptobiosis, kitten claws, knife mouths, balloon butts, spiders on Mars, splicing tardigrade DNA into ours, debunking flim-flam and the friends living in your gutters.
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Links to things we discussed:
3 Reasons Tardigrades Are ‘Supernatural’ (Spoiler: They Can Survive In Space)
Tardigrade viral image by Eye of Science
Michael Douglas getting almost-eaten by tardigrades in
Latitudinal gradients in body size in marine tardigrades
Scientists now think they know why tardigrades are so indestructible
Cosmo Sheldrake - Tardigrade Song
'Spiders on Mars' fully awakened on Earth for 1st time — and scientists are shrieking with joy
Oostenbrink instructions (in English)
Wild Nematodes Rapid Isolation by Baermann Funnel | Protocol Preview
Marine tardigrades from South Carolina, USA
An exploration of autofluorescence in tardigrades (phylum Tardigrada)
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