What is Life? Venter Explains. On the evening of July 12, Ireland's Enda Kenny, the Prime Minister — or Taioseach, in the proper Gaelic — was running late, delayed a few minutes by affairs of state.
The 400-strong audience, squeezed onto rows of doll-size chairs in the Examination Hall of Trinity College, Dublin, waited placidly. What, after all, did a few minutes matter, when the scientific world had waited almost 70 years for an event of this magnitude? In 1943, the Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger delivered a lecture at Trinity applying the principles of his own field to the foreign territory of biology. Danielle LaPorte: white hot truth + sermons on life. Links to hundreds of Psychology studies running on the internet.