A new neuroscience book argues that our brains aren't computers — they're the internet

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What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.

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As awesome as that is, the swagger gives it away as a kinesin protein, not myosen. From Snopes:

While both proteins have a similar molecular core and both use ATP to power their movement, it is the iconic strut that gives away the identity of the motor protein in the viral animation.

Both myosin and kinesin have identical pairs of molecules that “latch” onto different types of cellular structures. In kinesin they move over longer distances with coordinated steps. In myosin, which is most famous for the processes that drive muscle contractions, those latching molecules operate independently of each other, and the system produces more of a single tug than a coordinated strut.