David Leigh & Tim Blais: Nanobots and Creativity | Science Life

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Talking tiny machines with a literal chemistry magician!
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For the revival of the podcast, we have the nanobot man himself, Professor David Leigh of Manchester University! I was pleasantly surprised by the camaraderie we developed over this conversation. We start off trying to explain some of the trickier mechanisms that showed up in the "Nanobot" video, like what the heck is a rotaxane and a Brownian ratchet? There's some really cool physics going on stemming from the fact that the nano-world is controlled by very different kinds of forces than our big world. From there we talk about creativity and where ideas come from as a scientist or artist, how to build connections between scientific disciplines, how to tell a good story with science, and of course everyone's favourite question: WILL THE NANOBOTS KILL US ALL??? I had a great time in this conversation, so I hope you enjoy it and here's to many more!

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  • @GDCilia
    @GDCilia5 жыл бұрын

    My science teacher actually went to university with you!

  • @jonoleric
    @jonoleric5 жыл бұрын

    I love the discourse on inspiration, writing things down, and keeping a project going. "Prime your brain"!

  • @Koubles
    @Koubles5 жыл бұрын

    Hey! Science Life is back

  • @MrRolnicek
    @MrRolnicek5 жыл бұрын

    Your nanobot music video made me buy the game 7 billion humans and play it through in 3 sittings. Hearing this it sounds like the programming of nanobots is VERY different from how you do it in the game.

  • @MrRolnicek

    @MrRolnicek

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Ma Pa Now that I think about it, it's probably just because we're in the early stages ... there's no programming language yet. It's like complaining that designing a logic circuits out of tranzistors is very different from writing a computer program.

  • @BB-yi1oq
    @BB-yi1oq5 жыл бұрын

    It was touched on in this discussion but another remarkable subject that you might want to focus on and/or memorialize in song is the biologic and genetic mechanisms used to "educate" the adaptive immune response. It is really mind blowing

  • @thedisruptors-sciencetechn4911
    @thedisruptors-sciencetechn49115 жыл бұрын

    Really interesting stuff!!

  • @MrJman9001
    @MrJman90015 жыл бұрын

    Ap Silva is my personal tutor for organic chemistry at queens! Great to hear him mentioned

  • @Fwaire
    @Fwaire5 жыл бұрын

    Will your podcasts be coming to spotify? I'd love to listen to them on my commute to work but don't have apple or soundcloud :(

  • @markknopfler9729
    @markknopfler97295 жыл бұрын

    Hei Tim! You're doing a great job, every song you make is better than the last. So, keep it up!! ;) I saw u have a channel on Spotify, but it's not very updated... why not? It could be useful

  • @zaanonymouskittyaguy6746
    @zaanonymouskittyaguy67465 жыл бұрын

    Hey, do you have a SoundCloud album?

  • @nokkonokko

    @nokkonokko

    5 жыл бұрын

    He's on Bandcamp!

  • @fatemeshoja2243
    @fatemeshoja22435 жыл бұрын

    We want new video...sooner pls☹☹☹❤

  • @torracatxd6567
    @torracatxd65675 жыл бұрын

    Can you make a song about minerals one about rocks and the rock cycle, and one about earths layers

  • @annesmith9642
    @annesmith96422 жыл бұрын

    I hope Tim can do his gene experiment in a video. Maybe as a collab with Nigel Braun and/or Jon Perry?

  • @mubeen316
    @mubeen3165 жыл бұрын

    What software do you use to conduct these remote interviews? Btw love these conversations.

  • @dutchik5107

    @dutchik5107

    5 жыл бұрын

    You can do it via hangout, skype etc. It ain't too difficult

  • @mubeen316

    @mubeen316

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dutchik5107 The reason I asked was he has split screen setup for both speakers and I don't know how to do that with skype or hangouts.

  • @jonoleric

    @jonoleric

    5 жыл бұрын

    it's probable that he recorded both screens, then arranged them in post-production.

  • @mubeen316

    @mubeen316

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jonoleric Yeah seems like it. I know audio tracks can be separately recorded but I have no idea how to record multiple video tracks like this and then arrange them side by side. I bet there's a software he's using that lets him do that, I wonder which one.

  • @mubeen316

    @mubeen316

    5 жыл бұрын

    I found one for Mac, it's called Ecamm which lets you record multiple video tracks as well. Still looking for PC.

  • @aidenlavallee5404
    @aidenlavallee54045 жыл бұрын

    Vsauce, or acapellascience... *Clicks On acapellascience.*

  • @hendoiya
    @hendoiya5 жыл бұрын

    I see the "science"...where's the "acapella" in this video?

  • @iwersonsch5131

    @iwersonsch5131

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's no musical instruments other than the voice in this video, is there?

  • @annesmith9642

    @annesmith9642

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is Science LIFE.

  • @poolygoliath7833
    @poolygoliath78335 жыл бұрын

    Theo Walcott

  • @PrashantSingh-py5in
    @PrashantSingh-py5in2 жыл бұрын

    🙏🌄🙏🌊

  • @flTobi
    @flTobi5 жыл бұрын

    Certainly not first.

  • @thomasw4422

    @thomasw4422

    5 жыл бұрын

    You actually are I think. Congrats. You win the internet today

  • @xWood4000

    @xWood4000

    5 жыл бұрын

    You actually are for once.

  • @coder0xff

    @coder0xff

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't be modest

  • @flTobi

    @flTobi

    5 жыл бұрын

    lmfao

  • @jonoleric

    @jonoleric

    5 жыл бұрын

    Certainty in contrarianism may connote a lack of fearlessness, you know.

  • @valeriaruiz8
    @valeriaruiz85 жыл бұрын

    It all foes wrong if we don't rebuild immunology as a fisiological system. Almost everybody is so misinfotmed about immunoBiology!

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