Are We Alone? SETI Institute

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Could there be life-forms on worlds far beyond the bounds of Earth?

The search for life as we don’t know it begins with understanding life as we do.

From amoebas to androids to antimatter, Are We Alone? weaves together humor and compelling interviews into themed programs about the biggest ideas in evolutionary biology, genetics, paleontology, technology, and physics – as well as cosmology and astronomy.

Are you a doubting Thomas? You’ll have plenty of company as we separate science from pseudoscience and the facts from the phony in Skeptic Check, our monthly look at critical thinking.

Are We Alone? is a one-hour program, produced by the SETI Institute and broadcast and podcast every week. The show can be found on iTunes, Juice, and other podcast sites. Radio stations carrying the program are listed on our Listeningpage.

The show is freely available to radio stations for broadcast from the Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS) Content Depot, the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and Pacifica Network.

If you are a station that would like to broadcast Are We Alone?, or would like more information about the program, email us at arewealone@seti.org, or call Barbara Vance at 650-960-4531.

Are We Alone? is supported in part by a grant from the NASA Astrobiology Institute.Skeptic Check is presented by a generous donation from the Trimberger Family Foundation. Some music provided by Peter Kienle.

Science radio for thinking species on any world.

People who work with Are We Alone? SETI Institute

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Caption: What's Your Poison?, Credit: Seth Shostak
“Aspirin and Old Lace?” Okay, you’d need a bottle of pills in a cup of elderberry wine, but aspirin can be deadly – hear why dose is key in toxicol...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
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Caption: Grave Matters, Credit: Seth Shostak
The science of death: why animals die, and how we might one day cheat the Big Sleep with drugs.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:53:59
  • Licenses: 2
Caption: Skeptic Check: Playing Doctor, Credit: Seth Shostak
How to sort through the fire hose of health and nutrition advice and the story of Bernarr Macfadden, the eccentric who kicked off America's fitness...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:01
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Caption: Rend Me Your Ears, Credit: Jay Weiler
Our buzzing, humming, whirling, machine-driven world is a poster child for technological progress, and has driven one man to search for silence; we...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:01
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Caption: Home Brew Science, Credit: Jay Weiler
In the days of yore, scientists were individuals with money to burn and time to spare - today, amateurs still make important contributions, while h...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KISU, WCAI / WNAN, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:02
  • Licenses: 5
Caption: Swarm in Here... Or Is It Me?, Credit: Jay Weiler
Collective intelligence is what makes bees and ants so successful – find out how researchers are helping humans to get their collective act together.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:01
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Caption: Written in Code, Credit: Jay Weiler
Genes aren’t worth much unless they’re turned on – find out what factors influence gene expression and how to unleash your inner-Einstein.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:03
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Caption: Seth's Garage, Credit: Seth Shostak
From our galaxy's big black hole to the genes for milk production, a mélange of surprising subjects.

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:03
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Caption: Cell! Cell!, Credit: Jay Weiler
The story of Henrietta Lacks who unwittingly donated her tissue to science in 1951 and whose cells still grow in laboratories around the world today.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 31, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:02
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Caption: Life of Brain, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover the potential – and peril - of neuro-engineering to repair and enhance our brain function.

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  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
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Caption: Skeptic Check: Fraudcast News, Credit: Jay Weiler
There are a lot of scientific claims out there – how do you separate the good from the bad and the outright fraudulent?

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 17, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:03
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Caption: Alien Invasion, Credit: Jay Weiler
From alien invasions by non-native species to critters from space, we look at what happens when unwelcome guests arrive.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
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Caption: Robots Call the Shots, Credit: Seth Shostak
From medical fields to battlefields -the latest generation of silicon intelligence and the new field of robo-ethics.

Bought by Remix Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
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Caption: Seas the Moment, Credit: Seth Shostak
From ocean acidification to over-fishing: how our oceans are changing and a reason for hope.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 24, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
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Caption: Habitats Not For Humanity, Credit: Jay Weiler
The best habitats for life elsewhere in the solar system and author Stephen King puts humans under the glass in his book “Under the Dome”.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:01
Caption: Seth's Crawl Space, Credit: Seth Shostak
A mélange of surprising subjects from the language of whales to the future of technology to whether photographic memory really exists.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:04
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Caption: Skeptic Check: Conspiracy!, Credit: Seth Shostak
The Apollo moon landing is a hoax and our government keeps alien bodies stacked in an underground bunker – put on your tin hats, folks, we’re going...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:02
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Caption: SETI: Now What, Credit: Seth Shostak
As the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence marks its 50th anniversary, there's been no contact as yet with alien beings - we'll hea...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
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Caption: Thanks for the Memories, Credit: Jay Weiler
We all want a boost in our memory, but what if happiness is not what you remember but what you forget - the case for too much recall.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
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Caption: Physics Phrontiers, Credit: Seth Shostak
If it doesn’t give you blisters or frostbite it’s not modern physics - stories of scientists who go to the ends of the earth to answer the question...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:03
  • Licenses: 1