Jerome H. Barkow

In a press release dated Wednesday, October 23, 2019, Breakthrough Listen announced its collaboration with NASA and the space agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS is expected to add thousands more to the thousands of exoplanets already discovered. The collaboration means that Breakthrough Listen will now have specific directions in which to listen and look both for extraterrestrial signals, signs of intelligent life and technosignatures—signs of advanced technology.

Bright ideas and great writing on love, alliances, conflict, and development. Posted Dec 02, 2015 Source: Artem Bali / Pexels 1. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature  by Steven Pinker This must read looks at the concepts of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine in an exploration of morals, emotions, and politics. 2.

Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate Source: Flickr 1. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature  by Steven Pinker This must read looks at the concepts of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine in an exploration of morals, emotions, and politics. 2.