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 Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #originoflife #abiogenesis #syntheticchem Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671