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Nick Lane on Origins of Life, Consciousness, Alien Life, Krebs Cycle, and Evolution

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Why Shouldn't You Ask Why?

i think why is one of the most human questions, and it's a childlike question. Children always want to know why. And i think it's the motivation for many people to go into science. We'll never know why, but we can't help asking why. I how do wi explain the world? Thath is to say, why is the world this way when it could have been so many other ways? In fact, you know, it's a question in physics, why are the cosmological constants that way rather than some other way? You could say, how did it come to be that way? It's a why question to me. So er, it's

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