I am a huge classic rock fan and I just discovered the Jeff Beck Group and why didn’t anyone tell me?!?!

"Hard Steps Model" for evolution of "human like" intelligence = standard approach in some quarters of astrobiology. It argues intelligence is rare cosmically. Its reasoning is deeply flawed. Dan Mills leads our newly submitted paper Jason Wright arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293

Part II of my slow blog on the Hard Steps model (and Great Filter) is up! sites.psu.edu/astrowright/?p…

And the grand finale is here! Why we think the Hard Steps model is unjustified: evolutionary singularities are not necessarily hard, or even true singularities: sites.psu.edu/astrowright/20…

Meet Mallory Molina (Mallory Molina) of Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science! Academic focus: black holes and star formation in massive and dwarf galaxies