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Sarah Scoles

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Sarah Scoles is a Colorado-based science journalist, a contributing writer at Popular Science, and a senior contributor at Undark. Her work has appeared in publications like the New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, and others. She is also the author of the books ​Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers, and Astronomical Mindfulness. Her forthcoming book is called Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons. Her articles have won the American Geophysical Union's David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Writing (2021) and the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division's Popular Media Award (2019, 2020).

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Countdown by Sarah Scoles
"A completely uninteresting piece about nuclear weapons devoid of any sort of analysis about what it costs beyond “ya, isn’t it weird ya know, maybe BOTH sides are a little right here??”"
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“Your story -my story, our story- began billions of years ago," she says. "But that probably doesn't come first to your mind when you wake up in the morning." A pause fills the air-conditioned room. "We need to change that."
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"We are intimately connected with these faraways times and faraways places," she continues, "because it takes a cosmos to make a human".”
Sarah Scoles, Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

“The number of pragmatists in ufology, he says, is small. They are far outnumbered by those on the zealous end of the spectrum. “It’s good to have an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out,” Rutkowski says, quoting astronomer James Oberg. “And there’s a lot of gray matter on the sidewalks these days.”
Sarah Scoles, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

“The Universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems
like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan, Contact”
Sarah Scoles, Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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