Big Picture Science – Martian Madness: Andy Weir / The Martian

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!

July 2019:
Math's Paths (7/15/19)
DNA is Not Destiny (7/8/19)
Nailing the Moon Landing (7/1/19)
June 2019:
Animals Like Us (6/24/19)
You've Got Whale (6/17/19)
It's Habitable Forming (6/10/19)
Creature Discomforts (6/3/19)
May 2019:
Skeptic Check:
Worrier Mentality (5/27/19)
New Water Worlds (5/20/19)
Is Life Inevitable? (5/13/19)
Rethinking Chernobyl (5/6/19)
April 2019:
Identity Crisis (4/29/19)
Gained in Translation (4/22/19)
Free Range Dinosaurs (4/15/19)
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)

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