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Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.


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SETH SHOSTAK The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could...
SETH SHOSTAK We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove t...
SETH SHOSTAK Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifte...
SETH SHOSTAK My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws ...
SETH ROLLINS Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit...
SETH SHOSTAK Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an i...
SETH SHOSTAK Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swi...
SETH SHOSTAK If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be v...
SETH SHOSTAK In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings...
SETH SHOSTAK I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.
SETH GABEL Mars still remains the astrobiology community's number one choice for 'nearest rock with lif...
SETH SHOSTAK I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a baske...
SETH CURRY Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress...
SETH SHOSTAK Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you...
SETH GODIN While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and paten...
SETH SHOSTAK For me, it's just finding ways to create shots. I feel like if I got a shot off, it has a good c...
SETH CURRY If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
SETH MACFARLANE Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for br...
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