Ignorance: How It Drives Science, a New Podcast

Science is not the massive structure built of facts that you were taught in school—at least not to scientists. What interests scientists is what they don’t know, what remains to be figured out. And there’s plenty of that. In this podcast, we give scientists the opportunity to talk about what they don’t know, how they come up with questions, why one question is more important than another, and what happens if we answer a question. Hint: We usually get more questions.

In our first episode, astronomer Jill Tarter, the former director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, takes us on a ride through the history of SETI, the ideas and technology that inspired it, and what astronomers have learned along the way about the “game-changers” that up the ante that there is somebody or something out there.

So forget about the dry facts and join us to hear about the questions, the puzzles, the mysteries that make science go. In our podcast, ignorance, indeed, is bliss.

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