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Secrets from the Microcosmos

by James Weiss
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The YouTuber behind “Journey to the Microcosmos” offers a beginner’s guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us.

Over 100 stunning images and fascinating insights reveal the wonder of nature—and our place within the universe—from a totally new perspective.
James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone.
In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner’s guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style.
You’ll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.

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    June 8, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781786784636

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      • ISBN: 9781786784636
      • File size: 23302 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      May 1, 2021
      "I was lost in life until I found myself in pond scum," a sentiment American author Weiss says became the motto that carried him through poverty and loneliness in a foreign country (Poland) whose language he didn't speak, through a romantic breakup, and, years later, onto YouTube with his popular, mind-expanding Journey to the Microcosmos, a series featuring strikingly delineated, live-action footage of the tiniest microorganisms on the planet, often found in media as accessible and humble as, well, pond scum. The copious images in this companion guide are no less enchanting, and Weiss' text fills in the background that the author can't always cover in his 10-minute YouTube episodes. There are the single-cell algae called diatoms, whose cell walls are composed of silicon dioxide, or "living glass." And the single-cell Lacrymaria olor, whose flexible "neck" can extend to eight times its body length, voraciously Hoovering any prey in its vicinity. This approachable guide to another universe, as close as the nearest microscope, should appeal to general readers.

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