<p> </p><ul><li><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-021-00877-5">Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications</a></li><li><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10016-2">Multiple Paths to Multiple Life</a><ul><li>Watch Chris Kempes and David Krakauer discuss multiple life in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLc9b_exGc">episode 2</a> of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"</li><li>Watch Sara Walker's critique of Multiple Life in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7O5IQpC1A">episode 4</a> of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/44819">Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants</a>, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.<ul><li>A related <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxgHyPCCqaw">lecture</a> by Geoffrey West</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://www.aliencrashsite.org/transmissions/atlantis-9">Atlantis Dispatch 009</a>, in which we contemplate cultural origins...</li><li>Past related ACS episodes - <a href="https://www.aliencrashsite.org/episodes/019">Heather Graham</a> and <a href="https://www.aliencrashsite.org/episodes/015">Cole Mathis</a> on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”<ul><li>Their co-authored paper,<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23258-x"> Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.</a></li></ul></li></ul>

Special Announcement - InterPlanetary Panel on Complex Time

A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts.

Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine.  What appears as a slime might alter space-time.

Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what?

Hosted by Caitlin McShea.