Think about the last time you used the word normal. Did you use it to describe someone? An event? A place? An object? What did you mean when you used it? Say, for instance, your friend is describing their last…

I recently read Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and as soon as I found out they had just released a movie adaptation I went and watched it on the big screen. Since alien communication happens to be one of the…

Whether it is Star Wars, Star Trek, or Avatar, most of us have been exposed to some representation of an alien language. Something that these franchises share in common is that their aliens are humanoid: they all have physical and/or…

While the word alien is seemingly self-explanatory, this is by no means the case. The online Oxford English Dictionary defines the word, in the sense that refers to non-humans, as: “an (intelligent) being from another planet.” Whether the extraterrestrial being…