Making Sense of MUFON—S2 Bonus Interview
Rob Swiatek introduces us to MUFON—the Mutual UFO Network—whose mission is to collect reports of and investigate UFO sightings all over the US and the world. Swiatek has been with MUFON for decades an...
12 Touko 23min
Silvano Colombano Wonders If We're Doing It Wrong—S2 Bonus Interview
Silvano Colombano, a long-time NASA scientist, argues that the search for extraterrestrial life makes some erroneous assumptions. We talk to him about what those assumptions are, why they might be wro...
28 Huhti 26min
Aliens and Art with Frank Buffalo Hyde—S2 Bonus Interview
UFOs, aliens, other-worldly beings—all have appeared in art over the centuries (including, possibly, in Renaissance-era paintings). But some of the most recent depictions appear in the works of Frank ...
14 Huhti 21min
Sara Seager Explains Exoplanets—S2 Bonus Interview
While we hypothesized about exoplanets for years, it wasn't until recently that we could confirm their existence. Astrophysicist and MIT professor Sara Seager has been at the leading edge of the searc...
31 Maalis 27min
Abel Méndez Talks About the Arecibo Telescope—S2 Bonus Interview
2020 - already not a great year - was made worse for astronomers when the Arecibo Telescope collapsed in Puerto Rico. Abel Mendez, an astronomer who grew up in the telescope's shadow, talks about the ...
17 Maalis 32min
"Ancient Aliens" with David Anderson—S2 Bonus Interview
David Anderson likes the idea of aliens but he’s not a big fan of the TV show Ancient Aliens. The archeologist has real problems with how the show portrays his chosen field and diminishes human achiev...
3 Maalis 30min
Sarah Stewart Johnson Marvels at Mars—S2 Bonus Interview
Sarah Stewart Johnson is a planetary scientist who has worked on several Mars missions and is also the author of Sirens of Mars. She talks to us about the latest mission to the Red Planet—the Persever...
17 Helmi 32min
Talking About Aliens with Neil deGrasse Tyson—S2 Bonus Interview
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his perspective on the rare earth hypothesis, the difficulty of wrapping one's head around the universe, and the problem with movie aliens.*Season 2 of Wild Th...
3 Helmi 37min
