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Can life be created spontaneously? Well, a year and a half ago, our master of microscopes, James, was inspired by the idea of spontaneous generation and set up his own little experiment. Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Shop The Microcosmos: https://www.microcosmos.store Support the Microcosmos: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4UedbiTeN96izf-CxEPbg Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music by Andrew Huang: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhuang Journey to the Microcosmos is a Complexly production. Find out more at https://www.complexly.com Stock video from: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-fresh-grass-in-well-maintained-large-garden-stock-footage/1398679317 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/white-cotton-shirt-so-many-stains-and-dirt-stained-stock-footage/1307409973 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/human-hand-take-and-check-ripe-wheat-stock-footage/1426703681 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/clock-hands-move-fast-time-lapse-video-time-lapse-time-stock-footage/1427950414 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/little-mice-in-a-womans-hand-in-a-lab-stock-footage/1012276124 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Charlton_Bastian.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Tyndall_(scientist).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Turberville_Needham.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Redi,_founder_of_experimental_biology.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Pasteur,_foto_av_Paul_Nadar,_Crisco_edit.jpg SOURCES: https://www.pasteurbrewing.com/on-spontaneous-generation/ https://www.pasteurbrewing.com/louis-pasteur-and-the-history-of-spontaneous-generation/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/aristotle/histanimals5.html https://www.thoughtco.com/spontaneous-generation-4118145 https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/XXXIV/3/273/776268?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23316565/ https://medicalmuseum.org.uk/medical-science-pasteurs-swan-neck-flask https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK24649/ https://socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/110501.pdf. https://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/Origin%20of%20Life/Bastian.html This video has been dubbed using an artificial voice via https://aloud.area120.google.com to increase accessibility. You can change the audio track language in the Settings menu.