Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Source. Basically a don't be a pussy story where he describes how he has always been passionate by both science and film making. Veritasium is a nice guy.

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There is value in tutorials written by early pioneers of the field Updated 2025-07-16

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Everyone is beginner when the field is new, and there is value in tutorials written by beginners.

For example, Ciro Santilli felt it shocking how direct and satisfying Richard Feynman's scientific vulgarization of quantum electrodynamics were, e.g. at: Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979), and that if he had just assumed minimal knowledge of mathematics, he was about to give a full satisfactory picture in just a few hours.

Other supporters of this:

Ron Maimon: the same also applies to early original papers of the field, not just tutorials
Dean Kamen: quick mention at: fi.edu/en/awards/laureates/dean-kamen, but a better longer mention on Dreamer (2020), nearby section from trailer: youtu.be/Cj2VKVJKf1I?t=16

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Animation of molecular biology processes Updated 2025-07-16

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Nothing makes the fact that your life is an illusion clearer than animations of molecular biology processes. You just have no idea what is going on inside your own body right now!

And don't get Ciro Santilli started on the brain and the impossibility of free will.

And yet, we live, oblivious to all of it.

Amazing creators:

WEHImovies, notably Drew Berry
XVIVO Scientific Animation

Video 1.

ATP synthase in action by HarvardX (2017)

Source.

Video 2.

Electron transport chain by HarvardX (2017)

Source. This actually explains how mitochondrions use sugar derivatives and oxygen to transform ADP into ATP.

Video 3.

The Inner Life of the Cell by XVIVO Scientific Animation (2011)

Source. Also created for BioVisions from Harvard University apparently like other amazing videos. It also has the best music.

Video 4.

DNA animations by wehi.tv for Science-Art exhibition by WEHImovies (2018)

Source.

Video 5.

Dengue virus Invades a Cell by XVIVO Scientific Animation (2008)

Source. Reupload by the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which was reuploaded from www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/den08.sci.life.stru.dengue/dengue-virus-invades-a-cell/ which was reuploaded from wherever crazy place XVIVO put it.

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Alan Watts controlled dream of life talk Updated 2025-07-16

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Goes along: if you could control your life multiple times to be perfect, you would eventually get tired of paradise, and you would go further and further into creating uncertain worlds with some suffering, until you would reach the current real world.

Very similar to The Matrix (1999) when Agent Smith talks about the failed Paradise Matrix shown at www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qs3GlNZMhY:

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.