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    What Is Life?

    What Is Life?

    What Is Life?

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    Length:
    8 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    A 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.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 8 of 8 episodes

    Title

    Episode 8. Kate Adamala: Can We Make Life?

    Kate Adamala is a chemist at the University of Minnesota. In her Protobiology Lab, she ...

    48 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 7. Donato Giovannelli: Warm Ponds Or Hellish Vents–Where Did Life Begin?

    Donato Giovannelli is an assistant professor at the University of Naples “Federico II.”...

    51 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 6. Steven Benner: How Weird Can Life Get?

    All the life we know is the same: carbon-based, with DNA for genes. (Okay, except for R...

    51 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 5. Jeremy England: Why Does Life Exist?

    Jeremy England is a physicist at MIT. He has developed an influential theory of life as...

    55 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 4. Caleb Scharf: How Did Life Begin?

    We don’t know how life got its start. But as more evidence emerges, explains astrobiolo...

    46 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 3. Jim Cleaves: The Origin of Life, from Frankenstein to a Laboratory Spark

    H. James Cleaves is a professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo and co-aut...

    45 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 2. Sara Walker: If We Find Alien Life, Will We Even Know It?

    Sara Imari Walker is a physicist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University. She st...

    47 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2019

    Episode 1. Carlos Mariscal: What Do We Mean When We Ask, “What Is Life?”

    Carlos Mariscal is a philosopher at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He collaborates...

    41 minutes
    		Jan 25, 2019