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

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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