James Tour Talks Nanotech at Socrates in the City

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future features the first part of a conversation between James Tour and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on Tour’s astonishing work in nanotechnology and on the topic “How Did Life Come into Being?” Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading nano-scientists. This event took place at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, and is presented here with permission of Eric Metaxas. Here in Part 1, Tour explains some of the inventions coming out of Tour’s Rice University lab, including molecular cars and astonishing graphene Read More ›

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0:00.0	I.
0:02.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Hello, I'm Tom Gilsson. Last October the very thoughtful author, speaker, and
0:17.4	humorist Eric Mataxus took his famous Socrates in the City event on the road to Houston where he sat down with
0:25.2	Dr James Tour to talk about the origin of life. In a second episode to follow this one
0:31.6	very soon we'll hear Dr. Tour explain why he's convinced that
0:35.8	nature alone could not have caused life to begin. Of course, when you hear that sort of thing,
0:42.1	you do want to know whether the person knows what he's talking about or not.
0:46.0	Well, Dr. Tour is one of those scientists who's done so much unusual and so much interesting stuff you can enjoy just hearing what he's done.
0:56.0	Especially when he's arguably the most influential scientist in the world
1:02.0	and especially when Eric Mataxus is doing the interviewing.
1:07.0	Wow, wow, wow, wow, my goodness.
1:27.2	There's so many of you. There's so thank you. Thank you. There's so very, very many of you and so few of me I'm overwhelmed I can't tell you how thrilled I am to do Socrates in the city in Houston we have done it in other, you know, backwater. There's no way,
1:42.1	once you use the adjective backwater there's no way once you use the adjective backwater. There's no way to redeem it.
1:45.0	No, we've done these events not just around the country here and there, but also in the south of France, in Oxford, England.
1:56.1	If you go to the website, Socrates and the City, you'll see those.
1:59.5	But we love doing them in places other than New York.
2:04.4	Usually if you were stabbing incidents.
2:09.3	Not that I'm not here to judge, OK?
2:11.8	I'm just saying. but we really have never done one here and I've been
2:15.8	in Houston many times and I know I've met many of you in my various visits to Houston
2:21.2	but it just thrills me that we're doing this here.
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