What Is Life?
Carl ZimmerA series of live conversations between writer Carl Zimmer and eight leading thinkers on the question of what it means to be alive. What Is Life? was recorded in front of a live audience at Caveat in New York and is supported by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Categories | Natural SciencesScience | ||||
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Kate Adamala is a chemist at the University of Minnesota. In her Protobiology Lab, she is trying to build a synthetic cell from scratch. more
Donato Giovannelli is an assistant professor at the University of Naples “Federico II.” He travels to acid lakes and other extreme environments that are the closest thing today to what Earth was like when life began. Giovannelli’s web site more
All the life we know is the same: carbon-based, with DNA for genes. (Okay, except for RNA viruses.) But Steven Benner says it doesn’t have to be that way. Benner is a Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. more
Jeremy England is a physicist at MIT. He has developed an influential theory of life as a way for matter to dissipate energy. England’s MIT lab site more
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- Mind-blowingly Wonderful
Zimmerman talks to scientists researching the subject of what is life and how does it begin and gets them to talk about their work at an accessible level. Big questions, big fun!
Apple Podcasts5Dakota Jane
United States5 years ago - What is Life?
Very insightful interviews.
Apple Podcasts5DickZimmerUnited States5 years ago
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