Chris Kempes's guest appearances

Chris Kempes

COMPLEXITY

Alien Crash Site

Deborah Gordon

Melanie Mitchell

David Krakauer

Matthew Jackson

Katherine Collins

Olivia Judson

Ray Monk

Diane Coyle

Andrea Wulf

Carl Bergstrom

Brian Arthur

Sarah Maurer

Devin White

Geoffrey West

Rajiv Sethi

OwlTail

Why is the internal structure of Bacteria so different from the architecture of a nucleated cell? Why do some kinds of organisms stay small, whereas others grow to enormous size? What evolutionary challenges drove life’s major transitions into more and more complex varieties…and what does studying these areas reveal about the changing landscape of our global economy?New research into the science of scale — how physics operates on systems of different sizes — reveals universal speed limits imposed on biology by the energy required to make or repair component parts. It explains the varying evolutionary pressures on organisms to reallocate resources and change their body plans as they grow. It helps to resolve fierce old debates about just how much contingent history limits a creature’s future evolutionary options. And it illuminates how tradeoffs in resiliency and efficiency constrain the strategies of animals and human institutions alike, favoring self-reliance in some contexts and cooperation in others. Scale helps us prune the tree of possibilities and understand what are and are not likely futures for this planet.We have a lot to learn from germs and insects…Chris Kempes’ Website. Visit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts. Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano. Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

Why is the internal structure of Bacteria so different from the architecture of a nucleated cell? Why do some kinds of organisms stay small, whereas others grow to enormous size? What evolutionary challenges drove life’s major transitions into more and more complex varieties…and what does studying these areas reveal about the changing landscape of our global economy?New research into the science of scale — how physics operates on systems of different sizes — reveals universal speed limits imposed on biology by the energy required to make or repair component parts. It explains the varying evolutionary pressures on organisms to reallocate resources and change their body plans as they grow. It helps to resolve fierce old debates about just how much contingent history limits a creature’s future evolutionary options. And it illuminates how tradeoffs in resiliency and efficiency constrain the strategies of animals and human institutions alike, favoring self-reliance in some contexts and cooperation in others. Scale helps us prune the tree of possibilities and understand what are and are not likely futures for this planet.We have a lot to learn from germs and insects…<a href="http://chriskempes.com/Chris_Kempes/Home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Kempes’ Website.</a> <a href="https://santafe.edu/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visit our website</a> for more information or to support our science and communication efforts. <a href="https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our Facebook discussion group</a> to meet like minds and talk about each episode. Podcast Theme Music by <a href="https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch Mignano</a>. Follow us on social media: <a href="http://twitter.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> • <a href="http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> • <a href="http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> • <a href="http://instagram.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> • <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/20131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>

Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution

A few years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, upsetting centuries of certainty about the history of life, he wrote a now-famous letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and advocate of evolutionary theory. "But if (and oh what a big if),” Darwin’s letter reads, “we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity etcetera present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes.”That was 1871. Nearly 150 years hence, humankind has worked out the details of the evolutionary process to exquisite depth and resolution, but abiogenesis - the origins of life - remains one of the greatest mysteries of our world. Fierce theoretical debates rage on between those who think life got its start in deep sea hydrothermal vents and those who think it started in “some warm little pond” – not to mention more heterodox hypotheses. The consequences are enormous – shaping plans for interplanetary exploration, changing our approach to medicine, and maybe foremost, settling the existential question of what life is in the first place.This week’s episode was recorded live at the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Festival in June 2019. The panel features evolutionary theorist David Krakauer, President of SFI; biochemist Sarah Maurer, Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University; and SFI Professor Chris Kempes, who works on biological scaling laws. In this discussion, we present a spectrum of perspectives on the origins of life debate, and speak to the importance of presenting this unsettled science as itself an evolutionary object...Visit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.David Krakauer's Webpage &amp; Google Scholar Citations.Sarah Maurer's Website.Chris Kempes's Website.InterPlanetary Festival's Website.Complexity Explorer's Origins of Life Online Course.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

A few years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, upsetting centuries of certainty about the history of life, he wrote a now-famous letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and advocate of evolutionary theory. "But if (and oh what a big if),” Darwin’s letter reads, “we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity etcetera present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes.”That was 1871. Nearly 150 years hence, humankind has worked out the details of the evolutionary process to exquisite depth and resolution, but abiogenesis - the origins of life - remains one of the greatest mysteries of our world. Fierce theoretical debates rage on between those who think life got its start in deep sea hydrothermal vents and those who think it started in “some warm little pond” – not to mention more heterodox hypotheses. The consequences are enormous – shaping plans for interplanetary exploration, changing our approach to medicine, and maybe foremost, settling the existential question of what life is in the first place.This week’s episode was recorded live at the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Festival in June 2019. The panel features evolutionary theorist David Krakauer, President of SFI; biochemist Sarah Maurer, Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University; and SFI Professor Chris Kempes, who works on biological scaling laws. In this discussion, we present a spectrum of perspectives on the origins of life debate, and speak to the importance of presenting this unsettled science as itself an evolutionary object...<a href="https://santafe.edu/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visit our website</a> for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.<a href="https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our Facebook discussion group</a> to meet like minds and talk about each episode.David Krakauer's <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/david-krakauer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Webpage </a>&amp; <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&amp;user=R-K-FOwAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Scholar Citations</a>.Sarah Maurer's <a href="https://www2.ccsu.edu/faculty/smaurer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website.</a>Chris Kempes's <a href="http://chriskempes.com/Chris_Kempes/Home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website.</a>InterPlanetary Festival's <a href="https://interplanetaryfest.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>.Complexity Explorer's <a href="https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-life-summer-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Origins of Life Online Course</a>.Follow us on social media: <a href="http://twitter.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> • <a href="http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> • <a href="http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> • <a href="http://instagram.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> • <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/20131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>

The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019