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

The Vanishing Sources

Where is Everybody?

Stephen Webb's Book on the Fermi Paradox

Natalie Cabrol

Seth Shostak on the Zoo Hypothesis

The MIT Technology Review

The Hub and Spoke Podcast Network