Are We Alone?
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Are We Alone? is the SETI Institute's weekly science radio program, hosted by Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak. The show covers a broad range of topics in the sciences, especially as they relate to our understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth, and what life elsewhere in the universe might be like. Each week's show focuses on a particular topic and allows scientists on the cutting-edge of research to share their latest findings and speculate on the implications for SETI and society in general.
Molly Bentley is the Executive producer of the radio show and she, along with Seth Shostak, chooses topics, writes scripts and procures guests. She is also a co-host and interviewer on the show. Guests include scientists and researchers from academic, public and private spheres (including NASA), popular science writers, cultural critics and ethicists focused on science, science fiction writers, (and debunkers of junk science and the paranormal on the monthly "Skeptical Sunday").
Bill Oxley, the creator of the show, continues to serve as a consultant.
Archived shows are available via podcast or as .mp3 or WMA files on the SETI Institute's website.
[edit] Archived shows
The following archived shows are available for free on the “Are We Alone?” page on the SETI Institute’s website:
- Extreme Physics
- Technology: Hero or Horror?
- Doomsday: the Early Hours
- Engineers Gone Wild
- From Microbes to Mensa: What Life is Out There?
- Skeptical Sunday: Exploring the Unexplained
- That Last 2%
- Skeptical Sunday: 9/11 Conspiracy
- It's Elemental
- The End of Science: A New Beginning
- Waking the Giant
- Skeptical Sunday: There's Noah Counting
- Neanderthals Return
- To Boldly Go...Star Trek's Legacy
- How the Universe Measures Up
- Rubble Trouble
- Lost and Found Astronomy
- Sex: What is it Good For?
- Skeptical Sunday: Meet a Psychic
- Dinos and Carnivorous Kangaroos
- When Life Began
- The Universe in Theory
- Monsters and Mutations
- No Free Launch
- Skeptical Sunday: Curses!
- Quantum Universe
- F is for Science
- Look! Up in the Sky!
- Skeptical Sunday: The Gospel According to SETI
- Robot Uprising
- Not So Cool
- Aliens Ready for Their Close-up
- Skeptical Sunday: Sleight of Hand
- These Planets are a Gas
- Don't Be a Chimp
- A Trip Through the Solar System...But How do You Planet?
- The Horrendous Space Kablooie
- Skeptical Sunday: Psychic Sleuth
- The Singularity
- Secret Einstein
- Life: Chapter 1
- Skeptical Sunday: Sci Fi and the Fall Lineup
- Superhumans
- Astrobiology: Questions of Cosmic Life
- Skeptical Sunday: Alien Memories
- ID on Trial
- The Big Bang, Again and Again
- Radical Evolution
- Skeptical Sunday: The Amazing Randi
- Is Anyone Interested in Science?
- Recycling Hi-Tech
- Friendly Robots
- Skeptical Sunday: Why We Love Live Radio
- The Ultimate Chill Out: The Promise of Cryonics
- Shuttle Showdown
- Is the Church Pulling Back on Evolution?
- War of the Worlds
- Genes and Genius The Genius Factory
- Was He Wrong? Einstein Centennial, Part II.
- Skeptical Sunday: Global Warming — Is There Any Room for Doubt?
- Extraterrestrial
- Hitchhiker's Guide
- Walk This Way: Robot comes to a still Earth
- Teaming Bacteria
- Skeptical Sunday: Media Hype
- The Science of Animal Personality
- Life Beyond Earth
- Skeptical Sunday: All Luck is Dumb
- Emerging Viruses
- Cyber Cerebella?
- Whence Cometh the Nextuth Ice Age?
- Skeptical Sunday: Alien Visitation — Closed Mind Encounters?
- Einstein's Special Centennial
- Extra! Solar Planets!
- Skeptical Sunday: Creationism in the Classroom?
- The Mother of All Extinctions
- Parallel Universes
- Titan Touchdown
- Will Intelligence Rule the Universe?
- Skeptical Sunday: Fertile Imagination — The Columbia University Prayer Study
- Astronomy Superstar: Neil Tyson
- Life Chills Out: Biology at the Poles
- The SETI Institute — Twenty Years of Looking for Life
- Skeptical Sunday: The Heat Is Really On — Countering Doubts About Global Warming
- Halfpint Hominids: The Science of Island Biogeography
- Unorthodox Vision: The Stars of Amateur Astronomy
- Skeptical Sunday: The 7 Warning Signs of Junk Science
- Would a Signal From Space Change our Religious Beliefs?
- Will ET Send Snail Mail?
- Skeptical Sunday. World Wide Hoax
- The Ultimate Genetic Code Book
- Aliens under Glass: New Sci-Fi Museum in Seattle
- Black Holes and Other Weeeirrd Physics
- Will the Aliens Speak Math?
- Little Orphan Earth? The Search for Terrestrial Planets
- Skeptical Sunday. Bigfoot: Big Hoax?
- I, Robot
- Star Trek Science
- The Lure of the Rings
- Skeptical Sunday: Lost in the Lost City of Atlantis
- The Launch of SpaceShipOne
- The Universe Below
- Extraterrestrial History
- The Day After Tomorrow: Wrong Planet
- Skeptical Sunday: The Shroud of Turin: Holy Relic or Wholly Hoax?
- Why Sedna? The Celestial Name Game
- Testing Einstein: Will the Theory of Relativity Pass?
- Skeptical Sunday: When You Wish Upon a Star... Nothing Happens! The Truth About Astrology
- The End of the Universe
- Saving Hubble
- Dino Demise: What Really Did Them In?
- Skeptical Sunday: When Seeing is Disbelieving
- Hollywood Aliens: What's Right and What's Wrong
- Mars Pics: Curious Mix! Deciphering the Mars Rover photos
- Live from Arecibo: Talk from the telescope
- Skeptical Sunday: The Darwin Conspiracy
- Live from the AAAS: The Latest Discoveries
- Going to Extremes: Biology in Unlikely Places
- New Views on Ooze: How Life Began
- It's the Red Rover All Over Again. Touchdown: Opportunity
- President George W. Bush: Fly Us to the Moon... and Mars
- Skeptical Sunday: Alien Visitors?
- Touchdown Mars: Robots on the Red Planet
- Skeptical Sunday: Investigating Paranormal Claims
- Live from Arecibo
- Arecibo Feed
- Living Small: All the Places that Bacteria can Hide
- The International Space Station: Money Well Spent?
- That's What You Think!
- Out of Time
- Back to the Moon!
