MinuteEarth Explains: Microbes

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MinuteEarth Explains: Microbes with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science

Find out the surprising ways microbes, fungi, plankton and other tiny organisms shape our planet and our lives in this collection of MinuteEarth videos.

EPISODES IN THIS COMPILATION:

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0:00 Intro

0:19 Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?

3:36 Is Soil Alive?

6:24 Mushroom Wars

8:56 How Mushrooms Make It Rain

10:00 Where Do Our Drugs Come From?

12:29 The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Are Now Killing Us

15:31 These tiny shells know how much ice there is on Earth

18:07 The Plankton Paradox

21:25 What’s Eating The Titanic?

24:33 The Truth About Petri Dishes

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CREDITS

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Lizah van der Aart | Writer & Host

Leonardo Souza | Video Editor

Nathaniel Schroeder | Music

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC

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Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke

Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes

Henry Reich • Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida

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Emily Elert, Julián Gómez, Jesse Agar

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