aliens

Marie-Danielle Smith: In a year that has already seen historic fires, deadly pandemics, economic crisis and locust swarms, let’s not rule anything out

It’s hard not to root a little for a show that is an old-fashioned, high-concept fantasy comedy

Alien-believing sect sees common goals with student protesters

How would Americans handle an alien invasion in this time of partisan rancour?

Planets may support liquid water, and therefore life

Can we really be content to spend only $16-billion on fighter jets?

Who needs the Security Council? There’s a much bigger job for Canada out there.

Alien interference

My column for the print mag this week takes a break from Tory-baiting and looks at the biological  assumptions that underly the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.  I take issue with Stephen Hawking’s specific worry that aliens we encounter will be too much like us (greedy, rapacious, violent), because I think the real worry is that they’ll be nothing like us at all.

Whether alien culture resembles our own depends on one big question: do they have sex?

Madonna fiddles while Joni burns, Close encounters you might not want, and In his brother’s footsteps