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UCSB Physics Lecture Demonstrations Updated 2025-07-16
Veritasium Updated 2025-07-16
Does have some gems worth looking at. But generally always too superficial as can be expected from any self-sufficient YouTubber.
My Life Story by Veritasium (2018)
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. There is value in tutorials written by early pioneers of the field Updated 2025-07-16
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
Animation of molecular biology processes Updated 2025-07-16
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 yet, we live, oblivious to all of it.
Amazing creators:
ATP synthase in action by HarvardX (2017)
Source. Electron transport chain by HarvardX (2017)
Source. This actually explains how mitochondrions use sugar derivatives and oxygen to transform ADP into ATP. Alan Watts controlled dream of life talk Updated 2025-07-16
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.
Rick and Morty A Life Well Lived Updated 2025-07-16
From episode "Mortynight Run"
Look at this. You beat cancer, and then you went back to work at the carpet store? Booooh.
Last universal common ancestor Updated 2025-07-16
Phylogenetic tree Updated 2025-07-16
It is important to note that due to horizontal gene transfer, the early days of life, and still bacteria to this day due to bacterial conjugation, are actually a graph and not a tree, see also: Figure "Graph of life".
Definitely have a look at: coral of life representations.
Clade Updated 2025-07-16
Basal (phylogenetics) Updated 2025-07-16
E.g. monotremes laying eggs did not evolve separately after function loss, it comes directly from reptiles.
Polyphyly Updated 2025-07-16
Basically mean that parallel evolution happened. Some cool ones:
- homeothermy: mammals and birds
- animal flight: bats, birds and insects
- multicellularity: evolved a bunch of times
Why phosphorus has multiple valencies? Updated 2025-07-16
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Those who can't do, teach Updated 2025-07-16
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