How Cells Hack Entropy to Live

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SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. One of the most fundamental ideas in physics is that the disorder of the universe, also known as entropy, is constantly increasing. But, life’s inherent chemical makeup has been hacking the disorder of the universe for billions of years! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Levinthal's paradox www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/proteins_levinthal_1969.pdf molten globule, proposed here: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0014-5793(83)80010-6 molten globule, hydrophobic core shown here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283698918253 www.britannica.com/science/thermodynamics Image Sources: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Molecular_Dynamics_Simulation_of_the_Hydrophobic_Solvation_of_Argon.webm commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folding_funnel_schematic.svg

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