Are Aliens Real? We Asked Scientists

View in Browser      SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE     You're Asking the Wrong Questions About Aliens Early this summer, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its long-awaited report on the topic of UFOs. But it didn't do much to explain away the strange encounters of Navy pilots—or any of the 144 accounts the report took up. Here were the broad strokes: 1) The ODNI wants us to stop calling them UFOs and start calling them UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena, and 2) Those weren't aliens. But if anyone thought the ODNI report would end speculation, boy, were they wrong. If anything, it just got us all wondering even harder: Are we alone in the cosmic void? Put more bluntly: Are aliens real? Read More     The Best Bathrobes and Dressing Gowns Will Make You the Lord of Your Domain Every king needs one or more in his castle. Read More     You Don't Have to Spend More Than $100 to Score a Truly Great Watch on Amazon From Timex to Seiko, the site offers an extensive selection of affordable timepieces. Read More     The U.N. Climate Report Is a Frightening Vision of Our Possible Future. But Look at the Present. In Greece and California and the farthest reaches of Russia, the crisis is here at hand. But so are some solutions. Read More     Two of the Most Gruesome Republican Policy Obsessions Just Collided in Texas Governor Greg Abbott's got a new problem on his hands. Read More     'Reservation Dogs' Is Just the Beginning of an Indigenous Storytelling Explosion Reservation Dogs starts with a bang. The Muscogee radio DJ plays a song (we assume he is Muscogee because he says a long, drawn out "Mvto," meaning "thank you" in Muscogee). We hear "I Wanna Be Your Dog," a raucous, feral song by The Stooges. To viewers who aren't Indigenous, the dissonance may be confusing as heck. We're talking cultural dissonance, not the music itself. This isn't spiritual flute music—what's going on? But this is the point. Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo's first episode of FX's Reservation Dogs throws you without warning into the Indigenous waters of the Muscogee reservation in rural Oklahoma, and they fully expect you to sink or swim. You will swim, of course, not because your life depends on it, but because you want to see what comes next. Read More         The Rise of Elevated Stupidity America's hot-take economy has created a kind of smart that is indistinguishable from stupid. These days we're soaking in it. Read More       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2021 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019