Thermodynamics and the Physics of Life
PBS Space Time · Explainer · 14 min · 2018 · YouTube title: The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
Why it's here
HN commenters point to it as an accessible pop-science introduction to entropy and the physics of life, including Jeremy England's work.
What it covers
PBS Space Time, together with It's Okay to be Smart and PBS Eons, asks how a universe drifting toward disorder produced something as complex as life. It presents the idea that the laws of physics, through thermodynamics, may actually favor the emergence of life.