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Seth Shostak

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Name: Seth Shostak

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Seth Shostak: Klingon Worlds

The latest planets turned up by NASA's Kepler telescope are -- like the kids in Lake Wobegone -- gratifyingly above average.These new worlds offer both promise and insights, because they've got traits that are both appealing and mildly disconcerting.In ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Super-Earths, Seth Shostak, Solar System

First reported Feb 22 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 1 reports

TED Weekends listens to outer space

Honor Harger isn’t your typical artist. Or your typical astronomer. At the TEDSalon London Spring 2011, Harger shared how she brings these two seemingly unrelated disciplines together — the study of sound and the study of space — to record the songs ... [Published TED Blog - Feb 22 2013]

Entities: Honor Harger, Karl Glazebrook, Seth Shostak, Mario Livio

First reported Jan 25 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

Spotting science mistakes in the movies

In the interview I posted earlier today , SETI's Seth Shostak talked about how Hollywood has to make their science more accurate today than they did 40 years ago. That's because today's movie-watching tech makes it easier to spot flaws, and the Internet ... [Published Boing Boing - Jan 25 2013]

Entities: Seth Shostak, Hollywood

First reported Jan 25 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

Hollywood gets science wrong — and that's okay

Sidney Perkowitz is a physics professor at Emory University, and the author of several books that blend science and pop culture, including Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World . Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the ... [Published Boing Boing - Jan 25 2013]

Entities: Seth Shostak, Hollywood, Neuroscience, Laser

First reported Dec 12 2012 - Updated Dec 12 2012 - 1 reports

Patrick Moore

Seth Shostak: Forsaking the Ivory Tower

Patrick Moore - the brooding presence with the gruff voice and monocled eye - has died. The famous British popularizer of astronomy passed away at the age of 89 this week. He had the distinction of being the author of more than 70 books and the host ... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Dec 12 2012]

Entities: Seth Shostak, Patrick Moore, Narrowcasting

Quotes

"it's like they're looking at the sky through a 6-foot-long cocktail straw - a tiny bit of the sky, so they're only sensitive to signals that are coming from right around that star system" the BBC quoted Shostak as saying

New targeted ET hunt fails to find alien signals [Published Topnews.in - Jun 02 2012]

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TED Weekends listens to outer space [Published TED Blog - Feb 22 2013]
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Spotting science mistakes in the movies [Published Boing Boing - Jan 25 2013]
Hollywood gets science wrong — and that's okay [Published Boing Boing - Jan 25 2013]
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TED Weekends: A meditation on asteroids [Published TED Blog - Dec 23 2012]
Seth Shostak: Forsaking the Ivory Tower [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Dec 12 2012]
Interstellar Flight: The View from Kansas [Published Centauri Dreams - Dec 10 2012]
Mars hype teaches science lessons [Published Cosmic Log - Dec 05 2012]
New targeted ET hunt fails to find alien signals [Published Topnews.in - Jun 02 2012]

Blogs

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Everything you know about dinosaurs is wrong: T... [Published Cosmic Log - May 01 2013] Courtesy of Brian Switek Dinosaur enthusiast Brian Switek surveys Utah's landscape during a road trip — and surveys the state of dinosaur lore in "My Beloved Brontosaurus." /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var ...
Internet takes education to new level: Will uni... [Published Cosmic Log - Apr 03 2013] Dozens of elite institutions are now partnering with start-up companies such as Coursera, Udacity and edX, to deliver massive open online courses. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var ...
Beyond NASA: Meet the folks who are planning tr... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 07 2013] Golden Spike An artist's conception from the Golden Spike Company shows a lunar lander in the foreground, and a moonwalking astronaut in the background. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");/div> ...
Beyond NASA: Meet the folks who are planning tr... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 07 2013] Golden Spike An artist's conception from the Golden Spike Company shows a lunar lander in the foreground, and a moonwalking astronaut in the background. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");/div> ...
TED Weekends listens to outer space [Published TED Blog - Feb 22 2013] Honor Harger isn’t your typical artist. Or your typical astronomer. At the TEDSalon London Spring 2011, Harger shared how she brings these two seemingly unrelated disciplines together — the study of sound and the study of space — to record the songs ...