Monday morning video.

Another neat CGI video of a biological process. We originally saw it, once again, in our Mic-Phys class. In this episode, we switch to the prokaryotic flagellum. It's not as cool as the first one, but I still lurves me my biographics.

Admittedly, the video was posted by some Coke-Can Creationist (or maybe Koke Kan Kreationist?) as "Evolution's Nightmare & Demise." Whatever. Like, everyone knows it's just a specialized type II secretion system. Jesus - I mean, uh . . . Darwin?

They should contact Dreamworks

Man, I love this video. I'm not sure why it was made, other than to look cool, but it sure gives me the tingly feeling. I'm impressed by how authentic it is, like the ribosome assembly on the mRNA: first the 40S binds, then it scans to the start codon, then the 60S binds. Or the lipid raft at the cell surface. Everything is so damn well put-together. They should make another one of a viral infection like poliovirus, showing it hijacking all the translation machinery until the cell is just a bag of virions.