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91av recommends YouTube series Journey to the Microcosmos

The books, TV, games and more that 91av staff have enjoyed this week

By Tom Leslie

17 July 2024

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Looking to make much better use of my time online, I stumbled on a YouTube series, , hosted by veteran science content creator Hank Green and writer Deboki Chakravarti. Life at the microscopic scale can be confusing and unfamiliar, but the pair create an accessible introduction to the tiny organisms around us. Try chaotic bacteria with wriggling, threadlike appendages as well as brain-eating amoebae, bristle worms and tardigrades (pictured above).

For fiction, I can’t praise the anime enough. Based on the eponymous manga by Naoki Urasawa (which reimagines the world and…

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