Monday, February 8, 2010
Schofield Auditorium | 7:30 P.M.
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Seth ShostakMonday, February 8, 2010
Schofield Auditorium | 7:30 P.M.
Senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California, Seth Shostak participates in the scientific search for intelligent life in the cosmos. Polls routinely show that the majority of the public believes that we’re not the only thinking beings in a universe that is both old and enormously vast. Shostak will tell us how scientists are trying to find out whether that belief is just a fondness for some cosmic company, or a suspicion that can be proven using the sharp and objective tools of science.
Shostak is particularly keen on interesting the
public - especially young people - in science, and he readily
translates the most complex discoveries into terms accessible to
everyone. He has
co-authored a college textbook on astrobiology,
published nearly
300 popular articles on science, gives dozens
of talks annually, writes a monthly column for SPACE.com, and
is the host of the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show,
Are We Alone? Shostak’s new book, Confessions of an Alien
Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (National Geographic Books), offers an entertaining and expert
account of the facts,
fantasies and future of finding intelligence
elsewhere in the universe - and how real science differs
from
the Hollywood view of extraterrestrial life.
Interpreted for the deaf and hard of hearing.
More information: www.seti.org | Seth Shostak featured on The Colbert Report
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