Webcasts

COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE IN LIVING SYSTEMS AND CREATIVE EMERGENCE

Bonnie Bassler – Quorum-Sensing in Bacteria

James A. Shapiro – Revisiting Evolution in the 21st Century

DEBATES ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF LIFE | GENERATING HYPOTHESES ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF LIFE

Paul Davies – The Ultimate Explanation & the Goldilocks Enigma

Zann Gill – If Microbes begat Mind

Robert Hazen – Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origins

Stuart Kauffman – Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred

Lord Kelvin (William Thompson) on the Origin of Life (1871).

Art Louis – The Origin of Life, Faraday Lecture Lecture at Cambridge University

Steven C. Meyer vs Peter Ward – The Intelligent Design Debate

John Mattick – The RNA World Debate

Matthew Powner and Itay Budin – Szostak Lab Work on the origin of life – Budin’s experiment to synthesize a cell membrane

Dimitar Sasselov – How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets (TEDGlobal talk July 2010)

Jack Szostak – Origin of Life through Abiogenesis

Peter Ward – Mass Extinctions & the Rare Earth Hypothesis

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND DEBATES

Shannon Bennett – How Microbial Evolution Shapes Diversity on how loss of biodiversity will affect the emergence of pathogens. SETI Lecture June 2, 2012

Lawrence Krauss, Origins Project director and ASU Foundation Professor on The Colbert Report, June 21, 2012 on his book A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

EO Wilson lecture and panel on the Anniversary of Publication of Origin of Species

MICROBES, MIND & THE FUTURE

Baruch Blumberg (Nobel laureate 1976) – Potential of Astrobiology Research to Contribute to Medicine

David Des Marais – The Interdisciplinary Problem Focus of Astrobiology

Jeff Hawkins – How brain science will change computing

Stuart Kauffman – The End of a Physics Worldview: Heraclitus and the Watershed of Life (NECSI & MIT/ESD)

James Lovelock — Climate Change on Living Earth Royal Society October 29, 2007
A Final Warning Nature video. April 22, 2009
We can’t save the planet BBC March 30, 2010

Jill Tarter – Why the search for alien intelligence matters
What happens after SETI discovers ET?

Wake of the oil spill – Microbes, Oil Spills and Life’s Futures

Peter Ward – Indicators in Antarctica: Climate Change and the Future of Life

ORIGIN OF LIFE – OUTER SPACE

Samantha Blair – Interstellar Medium Interference

Jennifer Blank, Lawrence Livermore Lab – Meteorites: an Abiogenic Origin of Life

Sarah Church – Cosmic Microwave Background

Daniel P. Glavin – Life in Space

Stephen Hawking – Into the Universe

Monika Kress – Building Habitable Worlds

Jon Jenkins (Science Shorts 10 min. edition)- Kepler

Jan Liphardt – Intersection of Physics and Biology

Dan Lubin – The Maunder Minimum

Chris McKay – The Exploration of Mars
speaking on the Rationale for Mars Exploration at the NewSpace 2010 conference

Mark Marley – Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets

VISUALIZATION — a tool for hypthesis generation
Exploratorium – Origins
Exploratorium – Arecibo & the Search for Life in Space

Gerald Calderon, Feature Film – The Origin of Life

Bio-Visions at Harvard University – The Inner Life of the Cell

Janet Iwasa – Visualizations

Exploring Cell Biology at the Frontier of Visualization

GENERAL RESOURCES

NASA Astrobiology Seminar SeriesNOVA series on the Origins of LifeNOVA series on EvolutionRapidshare files on evolution and the origin of life