162 - "AHA" (Ask Him Anything) #1: Aliens, Death, Creativity FUTURE FOSSILS

This week, I embark on a new experiment and respond to three "advice column" questions from the Future Fossils listening audience:

• How do I know if aliens would like my music?
• How do I talk to my five-year-old about death?
• How do I be creative without training or experience?

This was a lot of fun and I'll definitely do this again. Enjoy, and thanks for listening!

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Show theme music is by original Future Fossils co-host Evan “Skytree” Snyder.

Further Resources:

Intro
Episode 70 with Steve Brusatte on the Golden Age of Dinosaurs
Episode 100 with The Teafaerie
Episode 158 with The Teafaerie & Ramin Nazer
Episode 117 with Eric Wargo on Time Loops

How do I know if aliens would like my music?
Eight Two Music
Complexity Podcast 1 with David Krakauer
Hook (film) 1991
Episode 161 with Michael Phillip on Creativity, Play, and Cryptocurrency
Weird Studies 75 on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Southpark Season 23 Episode 2 ("Band In China")
Complexity 41 with Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection
The Physical Limits of Communication (1999)
Edward Snowden talks with Neil DeGrasse Tyson about aliens
Episode 42 with William Irwin Thompson
SFI Musicology & Complex Systems Working Group (YouTube Playlist)
Episode 125 with Stuart Kauffman on Evolution & The Adjacent Possible
King Kong (film) 1933

How do I talk to my five-year-old about death?
The New York Times: 10 Annoying Kids' Toys
Complexity 52 with Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm
Episode 116 with Kevin Wohlmut reading Ugo Bardi & John Michael Greer
The Lion King (film) 1994
Complexity 37 with Laurence Gonzales on Surviving Survival
The Future Acts Like You
The Addams Family (film) 1991

How do I be creative without training?
Alicia Eggert's Stewart Brand artwork at The Smithsonian
The Exaptation of the Guitar
The Future is Exapted/Remixed
"You're only as original as the obscurity of your sources"

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