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Coming up on Connections: Wednesday, April 1st

First hour: Climate change and the Great Filter

Second hour: RMSC's Science on the Edge

In our first hour, we ask: Is climate change the Great Filter?

In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, "Where is everybody?" He was talking about the nearly infinite sea of stars, but the lack of any evidence of other intelligence. Perhaps we can't see nearly far enough to find other civilizations. Or perhaps climate change is a phenomenon that happens on every planet that sees technological development. University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank posed that idea in a recent New York Times piece. He joins us to go down the rabbit hole: How likely is it that intelligent life exists elsewhere? Should we try to find it? What if it finds us? And what if climate change could threaten our future?

In studio: Adam Frank

Then, in our second hour, the Rochester Museum and Science Center is kicking off their Science on the Edge 2015 Series on Wednesday night. We get a preview with Mark Mapstone, who is working on new ways to detect Alzheimer's Disease early. He'll talk about the research and the progress.

In studio: Mark Mapstone, researcher and clinician, University of Rochester School of Medicine