What do golf balls have in common with viruses? Virus, The Beauty of the Beast chapter 1

Interactive version: viruspatterns.com
This is a recording of Virus, The Beauty of the Beast, an interactive documentary about viruses. Virus have shells that are made of beautiful patterns - the patterns on Zika virus actually have connections to medieval Islamic art, and this documentary explores other connections between viruses and human designs. Throughout it, the audience can interact with actual scientific models of viruses.
Created by
Hamish Todd
Filmmaker
Diego Almazán de Pablo
Illustrations
Sheree Walker
Sound design
Marcin Knyziak
Monet Gardier
Scientific consultation
Toni Luque
Stefan Sechelmann
Other sound effects
Freesound.org
Toiletrolltube
Chrillz3r
Acclivity
Kwahmah
Reitanna
Technical sources
WebGL, from the Khronos group
Three.js, from MrDoob
The CZcams API, from Google
The Protein Data Bank
“How To Fold It” by Joseph O'Rourke
Other scientific consultants
Eric Stansifer
Tom Keefe
WestLangley
Chigozie Nri
Abhir Bhalerao
Virus assembly toy created by Arthur Olson
Virus structures
HIV
Yen-Li Li, Viswanathan Chandrasekaran, Stephen D Carter, Cora L Woodward, Devin E Christensen, Kelly A Dryden, Owen Pornillos, Mark Yeager, Barbie K Ganser-Pornillos, Grant J Jensen, Wesley I Sundquist
HIV 2
Benjamin J1, Ganser-Pornillos BK, Tivol WF, Sundquist WI, Jensen GJ.
HIV 3
The Histology Guide - University of Leeds
Zika
Sirohi, D., Chen, Z., Sun, L., Klose, T., Pierson, T.C., Rossmann, M.G., Kuhn, R.J.
Bluetongue
Zhang, X., Boyce, M., Bhattacharya, B., Zhang, X., Schein, S., Roy, P., Zhou, Z.H.
Phi29
Zhao W, Saha M, Ke A, Morais MC, Jardine PJ, Grimes S
T4
Sun S, Kondabagil K, Draper B, Alam TI, Bowman VD, Zhang Z, Hegde S, Fokine A, Rossmann MG, Rao VB
Rotavirus
Chen, J.Z., Settembre, E.C., Aoki, S.T., Zhang, X., Bellamy, A.R., Dormitzer, P.R., Harrison, S.C., Grigorieff, N.
Polio
Filman, D.J., Syed, R., Chow, M., Macadam, A.J., Minor, P.D., Hogle, J.M.
Mimivirus
Xiao C, Kuznetsov YG, Sun S, Hafenstein SL, Kostyuchenko VA, Chipman PR, Suzan-Monti M, Raoult D, McPherson A, Rossmann MG
Alfalfa Mosaic virus
Dr M. Verhoyen & Mr S. Henstra
Phage Pp2
Lin YR1, Lin CS.
Nanocompartment
Kerfeld, C.A., Sawaya, M.R., Tanaka, S., Nguyen, C.V., Phillips, M., Beeby, M. & Yeates
Polyomavirus
I. Rayment, T. S. Baker, and D. L. D. Caspar
Data hosting and “200 Viruses” image
The Protein Data Bank H.M. Berman, J. Westbrook, Z. Feng, G. Gilliland, T.N. Bhat, H. Weissig, I.N. Shindyalov, P.E. Bourne (2000) Nucleic Acids Research, 28: 235-242. doi:10.1093/nar/28.1.235
Image sources
African hairstyle
Sagay, Esi, African Hairstyles, Heinemann Educational Books Inc. USA, 1983.
Opening present
Charmaine Eng
Viruses attached to cells
Willie Wilson, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
Viruses leaving cell
Fred Murphy, USCDCP
Cell containing viruses
What-when-how.com
Woven basket
Jackie Abrams www.jackieabrams.com
Darb-I Imam shrine entrance
Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom collection, MIT Libraries, Aga Khan Visual Archive
Darb-I Imam mural above entrance
K. Dudley and M. Elliff
Other photographs of Islamic patterns
David Wade patterninislamicart.com/
Illustration of Men Working is a derivative of “Geodesic Dome for Australasian Exposition” by Maurice K. Smith, Rights © Masschusetts Institute of Technology, Rights Statement: CC BY-NC 3.0, the original image can be found here hdl.handle.net/1721.3/68841
The Shrine Illustration is a derivative of “Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine 08” by Anaareh Saaveh used under CC BY 2.0, The original image can be found here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
The Buckminster Fuller Illustration is a derivative of “R. Buckminster Fuller with his domed city design” by Steve Yelvington used under CC BY-SA 4.0, The original image can be found here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

[@SergTTL]

The presentation is extremely cool, informative and thought provoking. Thank you for your work.

[@teruyrjrtjrtu2162]

Unvaccinated children pose no risk to others

[@teruyrjrtjrtu2162]

A Harvard immunologist corrects a common misconception on the part of vaccine advocates:
Do unvaccinated children pose a higher threat to the public than the vaccinated?
It is often stated that those who choose not to vaccinate their children for reasons of conscience endanger the rest of the public, and this is the rationale behind most of the legislation to end vaccine exemptions currently being considered by federal and state legislators country-wide. You should be aware that the nature of protection afforded by many modern vaccines - and that includes most of the vaccines recommended by the CDC for children - is not consistent with such a statement. I have outlined below the recommended vaccines that cannot prevent transmission of disease either because they are not designed to prevent the transmission of infection (rather, they are intended to prevent disease symptoms), or because they are for non-communicable diseases. People who have not received the vaccines mentioned below pose no higher threat to the general public than those who have, implying that discrimination against non-immunized children in a public school setting may not be warranted.
IPV (inactivated poliovirus vaccine) cannot prevent transmission of poliovirus. Wild poliovirus has been non-existent in the USA for at least two decades. Even if wild poliovirus were to be re-imported by travel, vaccinating for polio with IPV cannot affect the safety of public spaces. Please note that wild poliovirus eradication is attributed to the use of a different vaccine, OPV or oral poliovirus vaccine. Despite being capable of preventing wild poliovirus transmission, use of OPV was phased out long ago in the USA and replaced with IPV due to safety concerns.Tetanus is not a contagious disease, but rather acquired from deep-puncture wounds contaminated with C. tetani spores. Vaccinating for tetanus (via the DTaP combination vaccine) cannot alter the safety of public spaces; it is intended to render personal protection only.While intended to prevent the disease-causing effects of the diphtheria toxin, the diphtheria toxoid vaccine (also contained in the DTaP vaccine) is not designed to prevent colonization and transmission of C. diphtheriae. Vaccinating for diphtheria cannot alter the safety of public spaces; it is likewise intended for personal protection only.The acellular pertussis (aP) vaccine (the final element of the DTaP combined vaccine), now in use in the USA, replaced the whole cell pertussis vaccine in the late 1990s, which was followed by an unprecedented resurgence of whooping cough. An experiment with deliberate pertussis infection in primates revealed that the aP vaccine is not capable of preventing colonization and transmission of B. pertussis. The FDA has issued a warning regarding this crucial finding.[1]Furthermore, the 2013 meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors at the CDC revealed additional alarming data that pertussis variants (PRN-negative strains) currently circulating in the USA acquired a selective advantage to infect those who are up-to-date for their DTaP boosters, meaning that people who are up-to-date are more likely to be infected, and thus contagious, than people who are not vaccinated.Among numerous types of H. influenzae, the Hib vaccine covers only type b. Despite its sole intention to reduce symptomatic and asymptomatic (disease-less) Hib carriage, the introduction of the Hib vaccine has inadvertently shifted strain dominance towards other types of H. influenzae (types a through f).These types have been causing invasive disease of high severity and increasing incidence in adults in the era of Hib vaccination of children. The general population is more vulnerable to the invasive disease now than it was prior to the start of the Hib vaccination campaign. Discriminating against children who are not vaccinated for Hib does not make any scientific sense in the era of non-type b H. influenzae disease.Hepatitis B is a blood-borne virus. It does not spread in a community setting, especially among children who are unlikely to engage in high-risk behaviors, such as needle sharing or sex. Vaccinating children for hepatitis B cannot significantly alter the safety of public spaces. Further, school admission is not prohibited for children who are chronic hepatitis B carriers. To prohibit school admission for those who are simply unvaccinated - and do not even carry hepatitis B - would constitute unreasonable and illogical discrimination.In summary, a person who is not vaccinated with IPV, DTaP, HepB, and Hib vaccines due to reasons of conscience poses no extra danger to the public than a person who is. No discrimination is warranted.Well, that would appear to settle that. No doubt the vaccine enthusiasts will soon be rushing to apologize to Jenny McCarthy for incorrectly charging her with murder. That being said, I note that she didn't say anything about the measles vaccine, which presumably does help reduce the incidence of the disease - although not as much as travel and immigration bans would.
My personal opinion is that the entire debate is a charade. If people actually cared about public health, they would not permit any immigration from the third world. As long as mass migration is permitted, relying on vaccines to combat imported diseases will be a losing battle. So, unless and until the mass migrations are stopped, don't even think about trying to force vaccines on anyone who doesn't want them for them or their children.

[@JorgeTorrespluspage]

Ahh the False Authority Fallacy.
From www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/appeal-to-false-authority-who-is-tetyana-obukhanych/ (which has the same validity as your source to keep it fair)
[...of the eight articles that has her name as a co-author, three of them actually supported the use of vaccines...Furthermore, none of Obukhanych’s research had anything to do with vaccines...There is nothing in her background that indicates she has compiled robust and scientifically important evidence about vaccines.]
Just because she's a "Harvard" doesn't mean she's an expert or even knowledgeable in the fields she pours her opinions into.