Expanding Universe Today e4 — Evan Gough
We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Evan Gough, who is the author of more than 1400 articles on the website. Fraser and Evan talked about the way that stories for UT are born, which traps can a writer fall into, and whether to take a university degree or not. Enjoy!
00:00 - Intro
00:41 - How did Evan become a part of Universe Today
05:19 - What kind of stories are the most interesting
08:00 - Degree VS No Degree
10:08 - How a story on UT is made
14:27 - Traps for space writers and how to avoid them
18:35 - Balance of mainstream and 'underground'
21:49 - What are the growth paths
27:57 - Outro
Comments (2)
Hi Fraser, I'm really enjoying this series with the people on UT. One of the many interesting things Evan said has moved me to write to you. You were talking about life in the universe. You come to it from the angle of the Fermi paradox. His interest was in how life evolved over billions of years. I like his angle. It'll be great to find evidence of basic life forms evolved from simple carbon compounds. What we all want is to find evidence of highly developed life, "aliens". The conditions needed to move from amino acids to galactic travel are pretty special and usually overlooked. I hope Evan can develop this theme and that others will find it interesting. Our planet is very special. The more people understand this the better.
Thanks Lindsay, I agree, but in my opinion, that just makes the Fermi Paradox even more puzzling. Life could and should be everywhere.