
How does size shape our understanding of and search for life? #020 with Chris Kempes
10/01/21 • 48 min
- Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
- Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
- Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.
- A related lecture by Geoffrey West
- Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...
- Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”
- Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.
- Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
- Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
- Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.
- A related lecture by Geoffrey West
- Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...
- Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”
- Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.
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What to look for, when we don't know what we're looking for? #019 with Heather Graham
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:
- Identifying Molecules as Biosignatures with Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry.
- Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications.
- Time Team
- Elemental Cycles
- DNA has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth
- Bennu
- Hayabusa Mission
- Alien Crash Site Episode 015, with Cole Mathis on Assembly Theory.
- Determination of Azimuth
- Atlantis Dispatch 001, in which we contemplate the meaning of “past” life.
- Viking missions
- 84001
- Isua
- Bob Hazen
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