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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Sep 24, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Is the Difference Between Biology and Chemistry?
01:59 • 2min
3
Did Your Dad Encourage You to Study Evolutionary Biology?
03:47 • 2min
4
Did You Do an Undergraduate Degree in Biochemistry?
05:38 • 2min
5
What Is the Difference Between Biology and Chemistry?
07:13 • 2min
6
What Motivated You to Do at PhD?
09:35 • 2min
7
The Importance of a Kidney Transplantation
12:00 • 2min
8
Post Dog Jobs - I Got a Post Dog Job
14:26 • 2min
9
How Do You Write Properly Against the Audience?
16:12 • 2min
10
The Bio Energetic Aspect of Bioenergetics
18:14 • 5min
11
What I've Learned From My Life in the Lab
23:22 • 2min
12
Is Peer Review Killing Breakthrough Research?
25:15 • 4min
13
Is There a Will to Succeed in Academics?
28:53 • 2min
14
Is There a Vital Question?
30:49 • 5min
15
The Evolution of Life on Earth
36:04 • 2min
16
What's Going On?
37:51 • 3min
17
The Origin of Life
41:18 • 3min
18
Y Caaiwes - Is This a 'Probablistic' Quantum Tunnelling?
44:10 • 4min
19
The Proton Motive Force and Its Mechanism
47:51 • 3min
20
The Origin of Life
51:03 • 5min
21
Is There a Proton Gap That Could Drive the Growth of Pro Cells?
55:47 • 2min
22
The Origin of Life - A New Theory of Hydrothermal Vents
58:08 • 2min
23
The Mid Atlantic Rim - Lost City
59:59 • 2min
24
The Proton Flux in the Archaa
01:02:10 • 4min
25
How Does This Membrane Form?
01:06:19 • 2min
26
The Difference Between Bacterial and Archaic Membranes
01:07:52 • 3min
27
Is There Any Balance Between Bacteria and Archaa?
01:11:21 • 2min
28
Is It Possible to Make Formalihide?
01:12:59 • 3min
29
Can We Cross an Energy Barrier?
01:15:53 • 3min
30
How to Make a Protein in a Minute?
01:19:05 • 2min
31
Why Aren't the Chemists Thinking Biochemically?
01:20:54 • 4min
32
The Proton Motive Force
01:25:07 • 3min
33
Is Hydrothermal Hydrogen a Great Candidate?
01:28:01 • 5min
34
Isis Hypothesis: Complex Life With Massive Genomes
01:33:04 • 2min
35
How Many Times Has This Happened?
01:34:59 • 4min
36
Isn't It a Weird Thing That This Toko Is Yet?
01:39:17 • 5min
37
Is There a Process of Endo Symbiosis?
01:44:28 • 5min
38
The Proton Gradient Membrane Energy Mechanism for Life
01:49:10 • 6min
39
What Is Life?
01:54:43 • 2min
40
Is It All About Sequence Changes?
01:56:58 • 4min
41
The Answer to the Problem Is Here Somewhere
02:01:26 • 3min
42
The Quatum Effect Is Too Important
02:03:57 • 5min