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John Cleese explains the brain

Monty Python’s John Cleese does a remarkable job of explaining the human brain.

Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his brilliance and wacky sense of humor. He manages to produce a very authentic-sounding lecture in non-English. There is only one complete sentence and it comes at the very end of his lecture.

(I’m afraid this is what I sound like to some of my students!)

For even more fun, turn on the closed captioning in YouTube and watch as the computer tries to make sense of him!

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A journey through the human eye

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How the eye works

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How to Be a Scientist

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How a retrovirus replicates

This animation does a great job of explaining the devious infection methods of retroviruses, such as HIV. It also demonstrates how a variety of antiretroviral drugs interfere with those processes.

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How a virus invades your body