Watch with a notebook. A beautiful animation of a cell is a model, with the crowding and the waiting edited out. A talk is an argument at speaking speed. A paper is slower and, when it is the right paper, more precise than either.

Three rooms

YouTubeYouTube linksChannels and a few specific films: inner life of a cell, lectures, and organisms filmed without a voiceover doing all the thinking.
TEDTED linksTalks on bacterial communication, CRISPR’s public story, bioluminescence, biomimicry, and the brain’s numbers.
PublicationsPublicationsOpen libraries, Indian journals, data repositories, and the classic papers to cite rather than paraphrase.