Bacteria | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Take control of your finances today. Go to https://RocketMoney.com/TANGENTS to get started! It's easy to write off bacteria as no good, nasty, disease causing creeps, but consider this: without bacteria, we wouldn't have yogurt, or delicious sourdough bread, or a gut microbiome to digest those things! There are probably other good examples of ways bacteria are helpful to us, but I'm too hungry to think of them... Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents #bacteria #microbiology #yogurt Sources [Fact Off] Slime Mold Farmers Slime mold slugs that farm bacteria https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/01/slime-mold-macdonald-farms-its-bacterial-meals/ https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/slime-molds-can-farm-their-own-bacteria-when-food-is-short.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927962-900-slime-moulds-bet-the-farm-on-survival/ https://www.wired.com/2011/01/bacteria-farming-amoeba/ https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fnews.2011.27 Symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Hawaiian bobtail squid https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45750 https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2021/lights-camera-action-how-the-hawaiian-bobtail-squid-brings-a-creative-vision-to-its-maritime-world-of-small-big-screens/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7337994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359415/ [Ask the Science Couch] Probiotics https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.147.3659.747 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-2364-8_1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4443107 https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(99)70046-6/fulltext Prebiotics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7782892/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744122/ https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/75077/1/NRGH%20Prebiotics.pdf [Butt One More Thing] Sourdough bread bacteria (F. sanfranciscensis) and insect poop https://www.popsci.com/why-san-francisco-sourdough-tastes-so-good/ https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jam.13546 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=info&id=1625