Scientists from NASA and Pennsylvania State University recently published a scenario analysis which investigates the potential implications of contact with ETIs (extraterrestrial intelligence) and ultimately suggests that alien-human interaction would be harmful to earthly beings, even if the ETI civilization held universalist ethics. The scientists reason that, given we have already altered our environment in [...]

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Commentary air quality, aliens, Beijing, china, ETIs, global warming, nationalism, pollution

I remember walking into a cramped recording studio in Shandong Province with a fellow colleague of mine, an ABC (American-born Chinese). We’d been contracted as voiceover actors for a series of English-language textbooks geared toward Chinese middle-school students. Following a rather awkward chat about payment terms, the producer turned to me and said something to [...]

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Commentary china, international business, migration, nationalism, racism, stereotypes, US-China relations, xenophobia