Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level
March 7, 2008 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Films & ScienceJeff just called me to tell me that he watched this insane video from 1971 called Protein Synthesis in his Biochemistry class this morning. The movie was directed by a guy named a Robert Alan Weiss and was made for the Department of Chemistry for Stanford University. The video clearly shows that protein synthesis in your body is actually done by a pack of dirty hippies tripping on god-knows-what. It’s impossible to say what the best part of this is, the T-Factor wearing a black cape and a giant beard, the near-narrative music, the poetic stoner narrating, or the fact that Jeff goes to MIT and they’re still showing this there.
Skip ahead to about 3:30 in and you’ll see what I’m talking about, the beginning is just some Nobel prize winner blabbing on and on…
UPDATE: Click this entry and DIGG it! For some reason I can’t get the DIGG button to work when looking at the main page… I don’t get it.
Bobby
Comments
If you've got something to say, keep it positive.I haven’t seen that many hippies since Widespread Panic did a three-show cavalcade in Athens, GA. I feel like my cells are lazy and dirty now; using their trust funds to buy more patchouli.
Hahaha!
50 S ri-bo-some!
FIFTY ESS RIII-BOOOO-SOME!
Peptide bond!
Peeeeep tiiiiid BOND!
I need a drumming circle.
[...] [via kitsune noir] [...]
Pingback by over my med body! » Cell Bio As Performed By Tripped Out Dirty Hippies — March 7, 2008 #
i think that initator factor one has to be my favorite…or that puff of smoke that (i guess) represents hydrolysis of GTP? hahahaha… the whole class was just DYING over this.
god i wish i went to school in the 70s. KALOO! KALAY!
This is completely insane almost surreal yet awesome!
Why didn’t I have this kind of classes at uni?! :D