So far on the internet today

I have looked at... a music blog I hadn't known about, from the music critic of The New Yorker a recording of a Beethoven piano sonata by a pianist I hadn't heard before (recommended) read a summary of new research into the uncertain reasons behind family decline seen that we might be about to find out …

A simple question about space aliens

Tyler Cowen asks: If you thought non-hostile but highly disruptive aliens would arrive within the next ten years, which of your decisions would change? Should change? Earlier this year I wrote A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox, so here are some thoughts, bearing in mind I suspect this is a Straussian question as well …

Ghosts, aliens or conspiracies?

Put it this way: There are unidentified flying objects that we can see on videos, that pilots have seen, that are presumably not a hallucination and therefore must represent, one, the supernatural, two, advanced military technology, or three, visitors from another planet. Right? So, which one do you think it is? More here.

More ways to solve the Fermi Paradox

Wilczek also floats another idea - what if an alien civilization created a greenhouse effect to raise the temperature of a planet? For example, if extraterrestrials were currently researching Earth, they would likely notice the increased levels of carbon dioxide that are heating up our atmosphere. Similarly, we can looks for such signs around the exoplanets. An …

A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox

UPDATE: The blog has now moved: https://commonreader.substack.com/ As Tim Urban says, 'We’d estimate that there are 1 billion Earth-like planets and 100,000 intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.' So there must be aliens. Why haven't we heard from them? (Read about the Fermi Paradox here.) This blog is a list of answers. I've summed up each one …