What studying fish teaches me about human life | James Liao | TEDxUF

This is a fish swimming. On the left, there's a cylinder with water rushing past it, creating turbulent eddies called vortices that the fish can't see, but they can feel. In nature, fish swim in turbulent flows, and they surf on these vortices. Now only if this fish were alive. But it's not. It's dead. How then is this fish swimming? The vortices generated from the cylinder provide the energy. The water swims the dead fish. I'm a professor at the University of Florida, a biomechanist and neuroscientist, and ...