The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a set of wonderful medical animations that they collectively show on their WEHI-TV. You can see animations on DNA structure and function, malaria, colony-stimulating factors, apoptosis and other stuff. If not all of the animations have ended up on youtube just yet, they will sooner rather than later, but I certainly recommend the animations at WEHI if you want high picture quality.
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Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, seems to remain some kind of a secret in the Western world. The movie Blade Runner certainly didn’t do its share in unravelling the mystery either and so we still think of a white paper crane whilst knowingly nodding when origami is mentioned. Origami is ancient for sure, but is it outdated, as well? Take a look at some things that I recently have found on the net:
The brain – http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/
WALL·E - http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/
And finally the compulsory paper crane, too:
Keep in mind that all objects are folded from one single piece of paper. Almost unbelievable, right?
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