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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Monday, October 18th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

How the push to search for signs of life on exoplanets fueled the developments of the technology we use in our latest generation of smartphones.

Plus, what your punctuation habits can say about you as a writer

and a new website based on a 2016 art project

that allows you to visually analyze those findings.

And, finally, walruses from space.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So I talk a lot about space on this show because, I don't know, it's freaking cool,

and because there's always a ton of stuff happening across all the international space agencies,

and because, you know, thinking about space, to me,

is one of the quickest ways to

experience that elusive sense of awe, which I've talked about on this show as being a very

healthy experience for us humans, you know, engaging with activities and thoughts that help us

see the bigger picture and forget about our little stresses. So I think space is great for that. But I am not

ignorant to the critiques of space exploration. It costs a ton of money, money that could be used

to cure diseases here on Earth, to make sure every human has access to food, clean water,

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