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Assumptions and Expectations when Communicating with the Unknown: Alien Listening Book Prompt

Book PromptssarahDecember 14, 20210

Book description: In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space, The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft contained world music and sounds of Earth to represent humanity to any extraterrestrial civilizations. To date, the Golden Record is the only home-made object to have left the solar system. Alien Listening asks the big questions that…

Composing a Narrative

EditorialsarahAugust 3, 20180

Disney’s Fantasia as a Model for Science Communication Browsing the radio for tunes, the classical station that’s always playing is likely skipped. Even taking the broader meaning of this genre of music, the calculated rise and fall of complex and layered melodies of symphonies created throughout the centuries often times do not carry through the…