Nick Hud: The Origin Of Life
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
For years, chemist Nick Hud struggles to share his work with his Catholic mother, until he finds help from a surprising source. Nicholas Hud was born in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.S. from Loyola Marymount University, his Ph.D. from UC Davis, and postdoctoral training at UCLA. Prof. Hud has studied the structure and function of DNA in various cells and viruses for over twenty-five years. Since joining the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1999, his laboratory has become increasingly involved in the search for the chemical origins of life, with a focus on the origin of RNA. Prof. Hud is currently Director of the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and Associate Director of the Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:31.2 | Quick note, we have shows coming up in Boston and London and in New York, in Queens and Brooklyn. |
| 0:36.5 | Go to storycollider.org for more info. |
| 0:39.5 | This week's story is from Nick Hud. |
| 0:41.5 | The story was recorded in March 2014 |
| 0:43.6 | at the New American Shakespeare Tavern |
| 0:45.6 | in Atlanta, Georgia, and was part of the |
| 0:47.5 | Atlanta Science Festival. |
| 1:03.0 | Tonight I'd like to talk to you about something that's even more important than science, which is my mother. |
| 1:07.0 | My mother is a really amazing person, and she is one of the people that I most admire in this world. |
| 1:15.6 | She's really shaped me to be who I am more than anyone else. |
| 1:19.6 | My mother has always been a big supporter of higher education. |
| 1:24.6 | She's also been a very, very devout Roman Catholic. My mother worked |
| 1:32.3 | hard to put me through Catholic school. Sixteen years of Catholic school. So when I told my mother |
| 1:40.3 | that I wanted to be a scientist, she was very supportive. |
| 1:44.2 | She didn't have a background in science at all, but she thought that being a scientist |
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