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“We got a lot of wonderful comments from you all about the music on this channel and you've also asked about how it's composed. The music is made by the very talented Andrew Huang, who you can find on YouTube. Link in the description, and he said the following: "The music for Microcosmos is some of the most organic composing I've ever done, where I generally just set out to explore a mood as suggested by the team or based on my own viewing of the series." I think he did a really wonderful job.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Why Did We Start This Channel? (And Other Questions You've Been Asking)

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"But his work seemed to come to an abrupt end in 1935 for reasons that are not known. Some have speculated that he was frustrated with both the criticisms from academic scientists, and the challenges of getting his work published. There is a manuscript from 1943, submitted to the journal Mikrokosmos aimed towards amateur microscopits like Kahl. But whether there was meant to be more would become irrelevant: Kahl died in 1946 and those who have looked into these questions have found neither an obituary nor a grave."

Journey to the Microcosmos- The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates

"Though of course like many microbial taxonomy efforts, these labels would undergo massive changes in later eras of research. The third era that Corliss described lasted between 1950 and 1970, and this era would apply advanced techniques of those days to better the relationships between the roughly 6000 species known at the time. And of course, those relationships are still being revised and updated with new techniques of today."

Journey to the Microcosmos- The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates