Lee Cronin was born in the UK and was fascinated with science and technology from an early age getting his first computer and chemistry set when he was 8 years old. This is when he first started thinking about programming chemistry and looking for inorganic aliens. He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in Chemistry and then on to do post docs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002 working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 aged 39. He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world, having raised over $35 M in grants. He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals and construct chemical computers. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/ Watch his team here Universal Life Detection: Astrobiology & Assembly Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMKPz1tuv10 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:52 Is chirality necessary for life? 00:07:28 What does chemistry tell us about the origin of life? What is life? 00:13:04 What is life? 00:19:14 What came first, chirality or life? 00:23:05 Why is "folding" necessary in biochemistry? 00:25:54 The debate about life between intelligent design and science. 00:38:55 How do you respond to critics of your methods? Where Miller-Urey went wrong. 01:01:33 What would you put in your ethical will? 01:02:54 What would you put on a billion-year time capsule (like the monoliths in 2001)? 01:04:27 What advice would you give to your younger self? ? Watch my most popular videos:? A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Be my friend: ?‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ? Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNAW8fZE1tk

#neutrinos #cosmology #WomenInSTEM Dr. Vavagiakis is a postdoctoral associate in the Physics Department at Cornell University. She works on four collaborations: ACT, CCAT-prime, CMB-S4, and the Simons Observatory. She is a fierce advocate for inclusion, diversity and Women in STEM. Eve got her PhD at Cornell University in 2021, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Provost Diversity Fellow on instrumentation and analysis for cosmology and astrophysics. She designed Mod-Cam, a first light instrument for the CCAT Observatory‘s Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). And is currently leading the development of Mod-Cam for first light on the FYST, located at 5600 meter elevation in the Atacama Desert, Chile. In addition to building instrumentation, Dr. Vavagiakis analyzes maps of the cosmic microwave background to measure thermal and kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich signals. These measurements probe the contents and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters and will constrain the fundamental physics of our universe. Eve is an enthusiastic science communicator to a diverse public audience, and authoring children’s books with MIT Kids Press which will highlight modern physics and astronomy experiments. The first book is “I’m a Neutrino,” available on Amazon. “I’m a Neutrino” is an accessible and visually arresting picture book about one of the universe's most mysterious particles for the youngest scientific minds. https://evevavagiakis.com/about/ https://twitter.com/EveVavagiakis www.simonsobservatory.org https://act.princeton.edu https://ccatobservatory.org https://cmb-s4.org 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:42 What does an experimentalist do? 00:06:17 ​​Why would someone want to become an experimentalist? 00:08:22 How do you get through the challenging times when things don't work? 00:10:42 What fascinates you the most about cosmology? 00:18:28 Why are neutrinos called ghost particles? 00:21:34 How do you justify the outreach you do to your colleagues? 00:25:21 What are your ideas for promoting diversity in STEM? 00:29:32 What is a challenge you've faced and what did you learn from it? 00:35:16 Eve reads from her book: “I’m A Neutrino” 00:42:28 What would you put in your ethical will? 00:48:39 What advice would you give your younger self? ? Watch my most popular videos:? A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Neil deGrasse Tyson https://youtu.be/1kxgK6J4S5Y Michio Kaku: https://youtu.be/3to9ymn-XKI Michael Saylor: https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penros ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt-ChsbjarI

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