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Intelligent life in the universe? Phone home, dammit!

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imageWho wouldn't want to hang with this guy?JD Hancock, CC BY

We’ve been conditioned by television and movies to accept the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. “Of course there’s intelligent life out there; I saw it last week on Star Trek.” We’ve seen it all, from the cute and cuddly ET to the fanged...

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What Greyscale on Game of Thrones has in common with leprosy

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imageWe've always been fascinated by disfiguring diseases like leprosy. Wikimedia Commons

In the neighborhood where I lived as a graduate student in the mid-1970s, there was a man whose face was remarkably disfigured. Half of it seemed melted, as if it had been fashioned of candle wax. You would spot him after dark on the streets near my university,...

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