Your Body's Molecular Machines
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as an easy-to-digest look at the awe-inspiring animations of cellular machinery.
What it is
Veritasium short showing Drew Berry's scientifically accurate animations of the molecular machines that drive cell division. It walks through mitosis, chromosomes and motor proteins.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends Darkskynet · 2022-08 · on “Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?”
On the topic of 'scientifically accurate animations of biological processes'. You may know of these videos, but I thought these might be worth sharing for others interested in this topic: Here is a TEDTalk by Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology. (uploaded in 2012) [LINK] Here is also a more recent video by Veritasium on YT that also talks about these animations. (uploaded in 2017) [this video]
Cites khaledh · 2022-07 · on “I should have loved biology”
When I watch animations of how the cell works at a molecular level [0], I can't help but wonder how can this level of sheer complexity in dna transcription, protein production, and many other supporting functions in a single cell works in perfect harmony. It's mind boggling. I admit that I'm biased, but I don't think this could have evolved through random processes. I'm a believer in Intelligent Design. [this video] [LINK] [LINK]
Cites jcims · 2023-02 · on “'artificial photosynthesis' claimed 10x more efficient”
Not directly related to photosynthesis, just the complexity of biology in general. All of these original animations were done by Drew Berry, Veritasium just packaged a few of them in an easy to digest format [this video]