Hitting the Books: Extraterrestrial careers and the power of human cultural bias

Mathematics may be considered a universal constant — and surefire way to communicate with extraterrestrials — but there's no guarantee that the next spacefaring civilization we come in contact with will understand the universe the way we do.

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