The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Tom Zimmerman and Simone Bianco
"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen -- without them, life as we know it wouldn't...
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Tom Zimmerman: We'd like to take you on a fantastic journey to visit the creatures we call the Elders. We call them the Elders because a half a billion years ago they tripled the amount of oxygen in the air, which led to an explosion of life, which led to all of us. We call them the Elders, but you probably know them as plankton. (Laughter) Now, Simone is a physicist, and I'm an inventor. A couple of years ago, I was giving a talk about an invention I made -- it was a 3D microscope. And Simone was in the audience. He realized that my microscope could solve a big problem he was having. Which was, how to measure the movement of plankton in 3D fast enough so he could mathematically model their sensing and behavior. And I frankly needed an ap...
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Tom Zimmerman: We'd like to take you on a fantastic journey to visit the creatures we call the Elders. We call them the Elders because a half a billion years ago they tripled the amount of oxygen in the air, which led to an explosion of life, which led to all of us. We call them the Elders, but you probably know them as plankton. (Laughter) Now, Simone is a physicist, and I'm an inventor. A couple of years ago, I was giving a talk about an invention I made -- it was a 3D microscope. And Simone was in the audience. He realized that my microscope could solve a big problem he was having. Which was, how to measure the movement of plankton in 3D fast enough so he could mathematically model their sensing and behavior. And I frankly needed an ap...
