How to Live Forever? Be a Jellyfish
Hank introduces us to another amazing organism - the "immortal jellyfish," Turritopsis dohrnii - and explains how it can extend its life cycle indefinitely through a process known as transdifferent...
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As you may have noticed, I tend to be a pretty easy going guy. But like most people, I occasionally get somewhat irritable, and that usually happens when one of two things happen: Either I'm hungry, or I'm really stressed out. Note that you do not want to be around me when I'm both hungry and really stressed out. There are a number of ways that I can deal with these situations: I eat, I exercise. Sometimes I just scream. One thing I cannot do, though, it would be really nice, would be to revert back to a simpler time, back to when I was eight-year-old Hank. But there is an organism, in this great wide world of ours, that can do that very thing. [intro music] This, my friends, is Turritopsis Dohrnii. Otherwise known as Turritopsis ...
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As you may have noticed, I tend to be a pretty easy going guy. But like most people, I occasionally get somewhat irritable, and that usually happens when one of two things happen: Either I'm hungry, or I'm really stressed out. Note that you do not want to be around me when I'm both hungry and really stressed out. There are a number of ways that I can deal with these situations: I eat, I exercise. Sometimes I just scream. One thing I cannot do, though, it would be really nice, would be to revert back to a simpler time, back to when I was eight-year-old Hank. But there is an organism, in this great wide world of ours, that can do that very thing. [intro music] This, my friends, is Turritopsis Dohrnii. Otherwise known as Turritopsis ...
