Released: 6 April 2020
Duration: 53 minutes, 55 seconds
Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, Extraterrestrials. The book covers astrobiology, SETI, the Fermi paradox and more for a literate but non-specialist audience.
WADE ROUSH, a Boston-based science and technology journalist, is a columnist at Scientific American and the producer and host of Soonish, an independent podcast about the future. He has served as Boston bureau reporter for Science, senior editor and San Francisco bureau chief at MIT Technology Review, chief correspondent and San Francisco editor for Xconomy, and acting director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program. He holds a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT.
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Links:
The Extraterrestrial page at MIT Press
Six Strange Facts about Oumuamua
Sofia Sheikh and the Nine Axes
Stephen Webb's Book on the Fermi Paradox
Seth Shostak on the Zoo Hypothesis
The Hub and Spoke Podcast Network
Credits
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Lloyd Rogers and Jason Robinson
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