Life's Edge: Exploring the Boundary between Living & Nonliving | Carl Zimmer | Into the Impossible (#320)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Struggles of Astronomers
I would ask biologists themselves. I'd be like, so what's your definition of life? And they'd just be like, ah, well, I don't know. Well, they might have some definition and then the next person would have a different one or more often they would just really not want to answer the question. So that's what really fascinated me... They all study life and the either don't know how to define it or they come up with definitions that are pretty different from each other. This is a long struggle and we're not done with it. You do a lot of, you know, this is like a memoir of this book in a part,. you know,
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