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

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

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Jan 28, 2019

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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. Benner at FFAME

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Jan 28, 2019

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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.

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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 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. by What Is Life?
51 min listen
Episode 5. Jeremy England: Why Does Life Exist?: Jeremy England is a physicist at MIT. He has developed an influential theory of life as a way for matter to dissipate energy. by What Is Life?
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Episode 4. Caleb Scharf: How Did Life Begin?: We don’t know how life got its start. But as more evidence emerges, explains astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, only a few theories are emerging as leading contenders. Scharf is the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University. by What Is Life?
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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 studies life as a physical phenomenon, in order to develop new ways to search for it elsewhere in the universe. Walker at Walker’s TEDx talk about a by What Is Life?
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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-author of A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life. Cleaves at by What Is Life?
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Episode 8. Kate Adamala: Can We Make Life?: Kate Adamala is a chemist at the University of Minnesota. In her Protobiology Lab, she is trying to build a synthetic cell from scratch. by What Is Life?
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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.” He travels to acid lakes and other extreme environments that are the closest thing today to what Earth was like when life began. by What Is Life?
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Episode 6. Steven Benner: How Weird Can Life Get?

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