Missing Mechanisms at the Origin of Life - Dr. James Tour, Nanotechnologist, Rice U

Dr. James Tour is a Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University who comes to defend a bold claim: that origin of life researchers are completely clueless about the mechanisms by which life arose on Earth. We start out with talking about Tour’s chemistry work, which includes a method of producing no cost hydrogen fuel and graphene too cheap to meter, the foundations on which he’s built his science empire, and get down to the vital chemistry questions that need to be answered before we can figure out what the earliest cells could have looked like.

00:00:00 Go!
00:00:17 Hydrogen fuel as a byproduct of graphene production
00:08:01 Cost of Production
00:10:58 Patreon Ask
00:12:30 Why graphene?
00:14:43 Concrete
00:19:53 How ideas happen
00:26:33 “T” People
00:31:44 Talking across disciplines
00:42:14 Making space for play in the lab
00:52:08 G_d
01:02:31 Pornography
01:14:11 The gospels
01:21:51 Synthetic Brain
01:27:55 Mechanism and miracles
01:31:26 What makes a mechanism?
01:34:21 Origin of Life
01:43:46 What is the beginning
01:49:40 The debate
02:15:12 Chirality
02:25:29 Closing thoughts

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