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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...
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[Fact Off]
Slime Mold Farmers
Slime mold slugs that farm bacteria
arstechnica.com/science/2011/01/slime-mold-macdonald-farms-its-bacterial-meals
slate.com/technology/2011/01/slime-molds-can-farm-their-own-bacteria-when-food-is-short.html
newscientist.com/article/mg20927962-900-slime-moulds-bet-the-farm-on-survival
wired.com/2011/01/bacteria-farming-amoeba
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Symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Hawaiian bobtail squid
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/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7337994 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359415
[Ask the Science Couch]
Probiotics
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.147.3659.747
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-2364-8_1
jstor.org/stable/4443107
jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(99)70046-6/fulltext
Prebiotics
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7782892
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744122
centaur.reading.ac.uk/75077/1/NRGH%20Prebiotics.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Sourdough bread bacteria (F. sanfranciscensis) and insect poop
popsci.com/why-san-francisco-sourdough-tastes-so-good
ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jam.13546
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=info&id=1625
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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 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 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
arstechnica.com/science/2011/01/slime-mold-macdonald-farms-its-bacterial-meals
slate.com/technology/2011/01/slime-molds-can-farm-their-own-bacteria-when-food-is-short.html
newscientist.com/article/mg20927962-900-slime-moulds-bet-the-farm-on-survival
wired.com/2011/01/bacteria-farming-amoeba
idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fnature.com%2Farticles%2Fnews.2011.27
Symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Hawaiian bobtail squid
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/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7337994 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359415
[Ask the Science Couch]
Probiotics
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.147.3659.747
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-2364-8_1
jstor.org/stable/4443107
jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(99)70046-6/fulltext
Prebiotics
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7782892
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744122
centaur.reading.ac.uk/75077/1/NRGH%20Prebiotics.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Sourdough bread bacteria (F. sanfranciscensis) and insect poop
popsci.com/why-san-francisco-sourdough-tastes-so-good
ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jam.13546
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=info&id=1625
