Wonders of life

ricowang

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/40088

The first episode is available on abc iview now, and ABC1 will broadcast the second episode on this Thursday night 8:30
Brian Cox is such a good presenter and professor that he could use slow but very precise talks to show you his idea.This how he defines what life is:

It's a collection of chemical processes that can harness a flow of energy to create local islands of order, like me and this forest, by borrowing order from the wider universe and then transmitting it from generation to generation though the elegant chemistry of DNA.