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Old 07-27-2018, 05:07 PM   #3250
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Sean Carroll has a podcast! I really like him and he seems to be starting out with some really interesting topics.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

The latest one (the first one I'm listening to) features a lady who's education is in astrophysics, but she became a professional poker player, and they talk about how people perceive probability and stuff, super interesting.

She also wrote an article on Vox talking about a paper that came out recently about the Fermi Paradox that concludes that we are probably alone.

Using fresh statistical methods, the paper re-asks the question “Are we alone?” and draws some groundbreaking conclusions: We Earthlings are not only likely to be the sole intelligence in the Milky Way, but there is about a 50 percent chance we are alone in the entire observable universe.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-heal...drake-equation
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