Big Picture Science – They’re Baack: Phil Plait

Can't get enough Seth? Well, if seeking professional help doesn't work, try perusing this trove of Seth's writings:

"Alien satellites might offer a new way to find E.T.," NBC News, March 19, 2018.

"Scientists say space aliens could hack our planet," NBC News, February 21, 2018.

"Phoning Home: Is Intellligent Alien Life Really Out There?," Futurism, January 31, 2018.

"10 top science minds tell what strange new body part they'd like to have: Seth Shostak: Better Color Vision," NBC News, January 28, 2018.

"Simple math shows how many space aliens may be out there," NBC News, January 26, 2018.

"UFO believers got one thing right. Here's what they get wrong." NBC News, January 3, 2018.

Want yet more Seth? Check out this lengthy collection of his writings at seti.org!

April 2019:
Go With the Flow (4/8/19)
DecodeHer (4/1/19)
March 2019:
You Are Exposed (3/25/19)
Skeptic Check:
Political Scientist (3/18/19)
Hawkingravity (3/11/19)
High Moon (3/4/19)
February 2019:
We Are VR (2/25/19)
Radical Cosmology (2/18/19)
Keeping Humans in the Loop (2/11/19)
Skeptic Check:
Astrology Ascending (2/4/19)
January 2019:
Meet Your Robot Barista (1/28/19)
Rip Van Winkle Worm (1/21/19)
True Grit (1/14/19)
Sci-Fi From the Future (1/7/19)
December 2018:
The X-Flies (12/31/18)
Space: Why Go There (12/24/18)
Yule Like This (12/17/18)
Skeptic Check:
Science Breaking Bad (12/10/18)
Creative Brains (12/3/18)
November 2018:
Bacteria to the Future (11/26/18)
Space Rocks! (11/19/18)
Skeptic Check:
Science Denial (11/12/18)
Rerouting... Rerouting (11/05/18)
October 2018:
You've Got Whale (10/29/18)
Air Apparent (10/22/18)
DNA is Not Destiny (10/15/18)
Creature Discomforts (10/8/18)
Wonder Women (10/1/18)
September 2018:
Skeptic Check:
Heal Thyself (9/24/18)
DNA: Nature's Hard Drive (9/17/18)
Angles of a Hack (9/10/18)
Plan of a Hack (9/3/18)
August 2018:
New Water Worlds (8/27/18)
Too Big To Prove (8/20/18)
It's Habitable Forming (8/13/18)
Skeptic Check:
Brain Gain (8/6/18)
July 2018:
It's In Material (7/30/18)
Identity Crisis (7/23/18)
On Thin Ice (7/16/18)
What Goes Around (7/9/18)
Frogs' Pants (7/2/18)
June 2018:
Free Range Dinosaurs (6/25/18)
Perpetual Emotion Machine (6/18/18)
Skeptic Check:
Flat Earth (6/11/18)
Imagining Planets (6/4/18)
May 2018:
Time On Your Side (5/28/18)
Your Brain's Reins (5/21/18)
You Are Exposed (5/14/18)
We Are VR (5/7/18)
April 2018:
What Have You Got To Move (4/30/18)
High Moon (4/23/18)
Skeptic Check:
Political Scientist (4/16/18)
Brain Dust (4/9/18)
Hawkingravity (4/2/18)
March 2018:
Skeptic Check:
Your Inner Lab Coat (3/26/18)
The X-Flies (3/19/18)
Shell on Earth (3/12/18)
Space: Why Go There? (3/5/18)
February 2018:
Meet Your Robot Barista (2/26/18)
Quantum:
Why We Want 'Em (2/19/18)
Bacteria to the Future (2/12/18)
Creative Brains (2/5/18)
January 2018:
Skeptic Check:
New UFO Evidence (1/29/18)
DIY Spaceflight (1/22/18)
Geology is Destiny (1/15/18)
Are Animals Really That Smart? (1/8/18)
Weather Vain (1/1/18)

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