tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60404280535511920392024-03-29T01:14:12.950-07:00The Wow! Signal PodcastThe speculative science podcast that explores the past, present and future of sentient beings everywhere.
The podcast is commercial free and free to download or subscribe to.Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-12369197961482566202021-07-15T21:01:00.002-07:002021-07-15T21:07:37.278-07:00Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/19804943/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /><p>Interview recorded: 11 July 2021</p> <p>Released: 16 July 2021</p> <p>Duration: 21 minutes, 33 seconds</p> <p>Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Reports, "Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950."</p> <h2>Links:</h2> <p><img align="right" alt="" height="174" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/9trans.jpg" width="256" />Villarroel+ , <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92162-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Exploring Nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950</a>.</p> <p>Burst 19: <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/08/burst-19-lost-stars.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Our Sky Now and Then</a> (August 2016)</p> <p>Episode 41: <a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/11/episode-41-vanishing-sources-with.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel</a> (November 2019)</p> <p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05068" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project: I. USNO objects missing in modern sky surveys and follow-up observations of a "missing star</a></p> <p><a href="https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~george/dposs/dposs_pop.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Palomar Digital Sky Survey</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.gtc.iac.es/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Gran Telescopio Canarias</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ctbto.org/nuclear-testing/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The United States Nuclear Testing Program</a></p> <h2>Credits</h2> <p>Host and Producer: Paul Carr</p> <p>Music: Ahleuchatistas and Erika Lloyd</p> <p><br /></p>Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-90106894481261622062021-02-04T15:54:00.008-08:002021-02-04T19:43:39.464-08:00Episode 49 - Existential Risk<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17781575/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /><p>Released: 4 February 2021 <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/x-risk" title="Risk"><img align="right" height="200" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/collidbooks_covers_0isbn9781913029845type.jpg" style="border-width: 8px;" width="132" /></a></p> <p>Duration: 58 minutes 44 seconds</p> <p>Co-hosts Paul Carr and <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com">Daniela DePaulis</a> are joined by author <a href="https://thomasmoynihan.xyz" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Thomas Moynihan</a>. The subject is the idea of human extinction and how it evolved into our present day understand of Existential Risk.</p><p><br /></p> <h2>Guest Bio:</h2> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://thomasmoynihan.xyz" rel="noopener" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img align="right" height="200" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/ThomasMoynihan_Headshot.jpeg" width="133" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Moynihan<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I am a writer and researcher from the UK. In 2019, I completed a PhD at Oriel College on the history of human extinction. Currently, I am a visiting Research Associate in History at St. Benet's College, Oxford University, and I am working for Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute with a grant from the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. <br /> <br /> I am interested in the history of existential risk and of existential hope: that is, how people first came to understand the perils and promises that face us as a species. I see this as the central philosophical drama of the modern world: how we came to appreciate our position—and precarity—as intelligent beings within an otherwise seemingly silent and sterile universe. <br /> <br /> My goal is to reveal how contemporary research into global risks can be seen as part of the wider story of our ‘coming of age’ as a civilisation and a species.</p> <h2>Links:</h2> <p>Thomas Moynihan - <a href="https://thomasmoynihan.xyz">https://thomasmoynihan.xyz</a></p> <p>X-Risk at MIT Press: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/x-risk">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/x-risk</a></p> <p>Mary Shelley - <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Last Man</a></p> <p>Churchill - <a href="https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-094/shall-we-all-commit-suicide/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Shall We All Commit Suicide</a>?</p> <p><a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-order-of-the-dolphin-setis-secret-origin-story" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Order of the Dolphin</a></p> <p>Frank Drakę: <a href="http://www.bigear.org/CSMO/PDF/CS07/cs07p09.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Speculation on the Influence of Biological Immortality on SETI</a></p> <p><a href="http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1984QJRAS..25..309P&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_VIEW&classic=YES" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Natural Selection of Stellar Civilizations by the Limits of Growth</a></p> <p><a href="https://disownedsky.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-jaws-of-darkness.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Jaws of Darkness</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2020/11/episode-48-chelsea-haramia-on-ethics-of.html"> The Ethics of METI</a></p> <h2>Credits:</h2> <p>Co-hosts: Paul Carr and <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daniela De Paulis</a></p> <p>Producer: Paul Carr</p> <p>Music: Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Solar Arkestra, DJ Spooky</p><p><br /></p><p>The Wow! Signal is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.</p>Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-3670362561384544742020-12-13T20:00:00.005-08:002020-12-13T20:00:52.503-08:00Wow! Signal Pub #4 Video<p> Here's the video for Wow! Signal Pub #4. Present were Ciro Villa, Rock Howard, Buck Field, Nick Nielsen, and Paul Carr. We covered a wide range of topics from 2001 A Space Odyssey to Luna Lee.</p><p>Hope to see you there on Pub #5, which will probably be in March 2021.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="399" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TexiB_MSh-s" width="481" youtube-src-id="TexiB_MSh-s"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-82046891328499986082020-11-30T20:26:00.005-08:002020-11-30T20:26:34.926-08:00Wow! Signal Pub #4 coming up soon<p> We're planning the next <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfCbcRNUHH0UL9aN91wIzqw0oWH21mL6w" target="_blank">Wow! Signal Pub</a> soon. It's a live-streamed ramblecast, with no set agenda, no show notes, no definitive start/stop time, and no solemnity. you can say what you want, but it goes on your permanent record. Participation is open to pretty much anyone, but you have to give me your e-mail address so I can send you the Zoom invite.</p><p>Right now, the date and time to pencil in is 12 December at 16:00 Eastern Standard Time (23:00 UTC). We'll update that as we get closer. Hope you can make it.</p>Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-12136159223924865432020-11-27T19:04:00.008-08:002020-11-30T20:18:39.842-08:00Episode 48 - Chelsea Haramia on the Ethics of METI<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/16964015/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /><p>Released: 28 November 2020</p> <p>Duration: 70 minutes, 39 seconds</p><p><b><a href="https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wowsignal/Haramia_Ep_48-levelled.mp3" target="_blank">download the .mp3 audio file</a></b>.</p> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJ_ehN3Sn9qAdQ8RysdSqYOA_RKXkPlHV3trYHd0hj8b4HUu_cW1EY48QS3WVkrofH5evuoy7V9alGq_FJ48x1phZjhdjIANNQhH5BN8xelANujRiucQjjxtRRK7HuGmo80peuvfUV0Y/s560/Arecibo-message+copy.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="196" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJ_ehN3Sn9qAdQ8RysdSqYOA_RKXkPlHV3trYHd0hj8b4HUu_cW1EY48QS3WVkrofH5evuoy7V9alGq_FJ48x1phZjhdjIANNQhH5BN8xelANujRiucQjjxtRRK7HuGmo80peuvfUV0Y/s320/Arecibo-message+copy.png" /></a></div><br />Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis engage philosopher Chelsea Haramia on the ethics of sending signals into space that might be received by intelligent beings in the cosmos. How do we think coherently about the risks?<p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Links:</h3><div><a href="https://1000wordphilosophy.com" target="_blank">1000 Word Philosophy</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/arecibo-message" target="_blank">The Arecibo Message</a></div><div><a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/02/episode-35-there-is-here.html" target="_blank">Douglas Vakoch on METI and Daniela on Cogito (Episode 35)</a></div><div><a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/11/episode-37-sonar-calling-gj-273b.html" target="_blank">Douglas Vakoch on a METI Messaging Project (Episode 37)</a></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/a9WaPLffeMw" target="_blank">The Live Moonbounce Video</a></div><div><a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/10/episode-50-extraterrestrial-languages.html" target="_blank">Daniel Oberhaus on Extraterrestrial Languages (Episode 40)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/12/episode-42-moon-bouncing-with-julia.html" target="_blank">Julia De Marines on Episode 42</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/david-grinspoon/earth-in-human-hands/9781455589128/" target="_blank">Earth in Human Hands</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://disownedsky.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-jaws-of-darkness.html" target="_blank">The Jaws of Darkness</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Lyrics to "<a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/erikalloydmusic/song/6247-time-pops-bubbles" target="_blank">Time Pops Bubbles</a>"</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://discord.gg/YmvWW89" target="_blank">Engage with us on Discord</a></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/podcastwow" target="_blank">Connect with us on Twitter</a></div><div><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wowsignalpodcast/" target="_blank">Discuss on reddit</a></div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Guest Bio</h3> <p><img align="right" alt="" height="293" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/Chelsea_Haramia_PIC.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 8px; margin: 12px;" width="220" />Chelsea Haramia received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she specialized in ethics. She is now an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Spring Hill College. She is also co-editor of the online journal <a href="https://1000wordphilosophy.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">1000-Word Philosophy</a>, which houses a growing set of original 1000-word essays on philosophical questions, figures, and arguments aimed at an audience of philosophers and non-philosophers alike. She has published in the areas of normative ethics, bioethics, animal ethics, aesthetics, feminist philosophy, and astrobiology ethics. Her current work involves ethical and metaethical analyses of space exploration and of the search for intelligent life in particular. </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;">Credits:</h3> <p>Co-hosts: Paul Carr and <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com" target="_blank">Daniela De Paulis</a></p> <p>Producer: Paul Carr</p> <p>Music: DJ Spooky, Nest, <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/erikalloydmusic/song/6247-time-pops-bubbles" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Erika Lloyd</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Wow! Signal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.</p><p><br /></p>Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-88768155628840605692020-11-06T22:03:00.002-08:002020-11-07T10:47:19.413-08:00Episode 47 - Arthur C. Clarke, Godfather of Satellites<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/16673057/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /><p>Released: 7 November 2020</p> <p>Duration: 57 minutes, 36 seconds</p> <p> </p> <p>Co hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis welcome space historian David Skogerboe to talk about the pro-space activism of Arthur C. Clarke.</p> <h2>Guest Bio:</h2> <p><img align="right" alt="" height="254" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/unnamed.jpg" style="border-style: outset;" width="202" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidskogerboe/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">David Skogerboe</a> is a space historian and science communicator. He recently earned his MSc in the <a href="https://www.uu.nl/masters/en/history-and-philosophy-science" rel="noopener" target="_blank">History and Philosophy of Science from Utrecht University</a> in the Netherlands, where he focused his research on the intersection of space science, science fiction, and science communication. During his masters, he interned at the <a href="https://history.nasa.gov/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">NASA History Division</a> in Washington DC, where he spent countless hours perusing the most interesting historical reference collections on the planet. He is presently a freelance writer and editor while he awaits the emergence of his first child, and he hopes to soon begin a PhD and a fruitful career as a professional nerd.</p> <h2>Links:</h2> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/398410" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Godfather of Satellites: Arthur C. Clarke and the Battle for Narrative Space in the Popular Culture of Spaceflight, 1945-1995</a>, David Skogerboe, full master's thesis</p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><img align="right" alt="Arthur C. Clarke" height="155" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/sir-arthur-c-clarke-9249620-1-402.jpg" style="border-style: outset;" width="155" /><a href="https://history.nasa.gov/nltr36-4.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Apollo 12: Why Don't You Know Me? You Should.</a>, David Skogerboe, NASA News & Notes</p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Wireless World Feb. & Oct. 1945</a>, Scans of Clarke's articles proposing the geostationary satellite</p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1847774.How_the_World_Was_One" rel="noopener" target="_blank">How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village</a>, Arthur C. Clarke (1992), Clarke's overview of the impact of communication technology on society</p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20408412-the-making-of-a-moon" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Making of a Moon: The Story of the Earth Satellite Program</a>, Arthur C. Clarke (1957), Clarke's pre-history of satellite technology, first published <em>before</em> Sputnik</p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149049.The_Fountains_of_Paradise" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Fountains of Paradise</a>, Arthur C. Clarke (1979), Clarke's sci-fi that features the space elevator and "project clean-up"</p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="http://arthurcclarke.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke's official website</a></p> <p lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/westfahl/arthur_c_clarke/bibliography.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">An expansive bibliography of Clarke's work</a>. An impressive reminder of just how hard he pushed to propel humans into space, and keep them there.</p> <h2 lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">Credits:</h2> <p>Co-hosts: Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis</p> <p>Music: DJ Spooky and Lloyd Rogers</p> <p> </p> <br /><p><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/wowsignal/Skogerboe_ep47_unleveled-levelled.mp3?dest-id=120098" target="_blank">Check out this episode!</a></p>Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-23131645303644026832020-04-06T02:35:00.001-07:002020-04-06T08:42:13.545-07:00Episode 46 - Extraterrestrials<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/13863011/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
<img align="right" alt="" height="320" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/ET_Roush.jpg" style="margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;" width="228" />Released: 6 April 2020<br />
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Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, <em>Extraterrestrials</em>. The book covers astrobiology, SETI, the Fermi paradox and more for a literate but non-specialist audience.<br />
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WADE ROUSH, a Boston-based science and technology journalist, is a columnist at Scientific American and the producer and host of Soonish, an independent podcast about the future. He has served as Boston bureau reporter for Science, senior editor and San Francisco bureau chief at MIT Technology Review, chief correspondent and San Francisco editor for Xconomy, and acting director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program. He holds a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT.<br />
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<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrials" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The <em>Extraterrestrials</em> page at MIT Press</a><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrials-MIT-Press-Essential-Knowledge-ebook/dp/B08639ZNKH/" target="_blank">The <i>Extraterrestrials</i> page at Amazon</a><br />
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Six Strange Facts about Oumuamua</a><br />
<a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/09/episode-39-sofia-sheik-and-nine-axes.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sofia Sheikh and the Nine Axes</a><br />
<a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/11/episode-41-vanishing-sources-with.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Vanishing Sources</a><br />
<a href="http://quantumwavepublishing.co.uk/where-is-everybody/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Where is Everybody</a>?<br />
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319132358" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stephen Webb's Book on the Fermi Paradox</a><br />
<a href="https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/nathalie-cabrol" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Nathalie Cabrol</a><br />
<a href="https://www.seti.org/zoo-hypothesis-may-explain-why-we-havent-seen-any-space-aliens" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Seth Shostak on the Zoo Hypothesis</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The MIT Technology Review</a><br />
<a href="https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Hub and Spoke Podcast Network</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soonishpodcast.org/the-show" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Soonish podcast</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/p/contacting-podcast-team.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The podcast contact page</a><br />
<a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/p/live.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Wow! Signal Live</a><br />
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Host and Producer: Paul Carr<br />
Music: Lloyd Rogers and Jason Robinson<br />
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<br />Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-42579522593613404232020-03-29T19:23:00.001-07:002020-03-29T19:46:57.918-07:00Episode 45 - Among the Space People with Paola Castaño<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/13750526/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
Released: 29 March 2020<br />
Duration: 54 minutes, 8 seconds<br />
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Paola Castaño is a sociologist of science. She recently completed a Newton International Fellow funded by The British Academy at <a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cardiff University</a> and is working on a book about the meanings and valuations of scientific research on the International Space Station. On the basis of ethnographic work following the life course of experiments sent to the station, the book examines the fields of particle physics, plant <span class="gmail-il">bio</span>logy and <span class="gmail-il">bio</span>medical research. She has a PhD in <a href="https://sociology.uchicago.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">sociology from the University of Chicago</a>, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the <a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Smithsonian Air and Space Museum</a> in Washington DC, the <a href="https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Free University of Berlin</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waseda_University">Waseda University in Tokyo</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-international-space-station-microscope.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The International Space Station goes under the microscope</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/NkJvgSCMhH4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop 2020: Day 1</a><br />
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703154" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cosmic-ray positron fraction measurement from 1 to 30 GeV with AMS-01</a><br />
<a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/20/17138968/scott-kelly-space-genes-nasa-twin-study" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Scott Kelly’s genes and NASA’s twin study on him, explained</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_worker" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Keyworkers</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.unseenpodcast.com/2016/07/episode-54-artists-without-boundaries.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daniela De Paulis on the Unseen Podcast</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/02/episode-35-there-is-here.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daniela De Paulis discusses Cogito in Episode 35</a>.<br />
<a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/cogito/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cogito in Space</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338963633_Somebody's_noises_are_another_person's_signal_Art_Neuroscience_and_Radio_Astronomy" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Castaño's article on Cogito</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wowsignalpodcast/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Wow! Signal podcast on Reddit</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvG9jbV4faXJZwK1OsrRcNg?view_as=subscriber" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Our YouTube Channel</a><br />
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Co-hosts: Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis<br />
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Astronomer David Blank responded to our invitation to comment on the Villarroel+ paper we covered in <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/11/episode-41-vanishing-sources-with.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Episode 41</a>, which he describes as "very fascinating."<br />
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<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05068" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The VASCO project: I. USNO objects missing in modern sky surveys and follow-up observations of a "missing star"</a><br />
<a href="https://www.aavso.org/memoriam-dorrit-hoffleit" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dorrit Hoffleit </a>and her autobiography: <a href="https://www.aavso.org/dorrit-hoffleit-autobiography-misfortunes-blessings-disguise" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Misfortunes as Blessings in Disguise</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/01/season-3-episode-3-slow-and-fast.html"> Bradley Schaefer and the Harvard Plates</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/02/burst-11-dasch-photometry-with-dr-josh.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Josh Grindlay, PI of DASCH</a><br />
<a href="https://public.nrao.edu/vlass/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Very Large Array Sky Survey</a><br />
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Host and Producer: Paul Carr<br />
Music: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lloyd_Rodgers/Cartesian_Reunion_Memorial_Orchestra_the_little_prince-a_ballet_in_two_acts" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lloyd Rogers</a><br />
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Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-30391265044696589022020-02-11T11:45:00.002-08:002020-02-11T11:45:20.766-08:00All Unseen Podcast Episodes now Available on YouTubeWe have moved all our Unseen Podcast (2015-2018) episodes to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3oEtdKirrzLse0eIBNuUAK7Iv3TI_fJi" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. You can listen to any of them there, as well as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3oEtdKirrzKv7CbHk5U1zLi1_8y3NE1i" target="_blank">the Unseen Pubs</a>. Soon, we will discontinue our use of Libsyn as the repository for the Unseen Podcast, and the rss feed links will not be valid. The <a href="https://unseenpodcast.com/" target="_blank">show notes on the blog</a> will remain available indefinitely.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To view the live event, simply go to this YouTube link: <span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1tZFOA5TfK0">https://youtu.be/1tZFOA5TfK0</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Host <a href="https://danieladepaulis.com/" target="_blank">Daniela De Paulis</a> is a multi-disciplinary artist who has appeared on the Wow! Signal as a host or co-host several times. Her bio is on <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/p/the-wow-signal-podcast-team.html" target="_blank">the podcast team page</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mario Armando Natali</b> graduated in electronic engineering from the University of Bologna He carried out his career in the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Italy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In parallel he has always been a very active ham radio operator with the call sign I0NAA and in 2015 he installed a 5-meter parabolic antenna that is now fully dedicated to moon bouncing (EME) and to radio astronomy activities focused on the detection of Pulsars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mario is very often invited speaker to talk about radio and technology in conferences and seminars and is also producing free software to support amateur radio and amateur radio astronomy community. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My practice is based on enquiry through engaging in process and collaboration with other disciplines. I have an interest in exploring and questioning potentials within different methodologies of creating– pushing the invisible or blurred into focus and reviewing impact and occurrences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ione Parkin’s large-scale paintings express her fascination about the early formation of the universe; massive clouds of cosmic dust and gas; vast webs of colour and shimmering light; solar dynamics; luminous visions of immensity. This exhibition features her richly textured mixed-media works on paper inspired by planetary surfaces, extremes of temperature and geological process. These resemble samples of the undiscovered terrain of distant moons.</span></span></div>
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Released: 22 January 2020<br />
Live recording: 20 January 2020<br />
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<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/p/our-threads.html" target="_blank">Thread</a>: Astronomy and Astrophysics<br />
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Host Paul Carr, along with <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daniela De Paulis</a> and Ciro Villa welcome astronomer <a href="https://www.aavso.org/stella-kafka" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stella Kafka</a>, director of the <a href="https://aavso.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">American Association of Variable Star Observers</a> (AAVSO). We talk about the recent and possibly unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, among many other astronomy topics.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/05/season-3-episode-5-catching-tabbys-star.html" target="_blank">Stella Kafka's previous (2016) appearance on this podcast</a><br />
<a href="http://simbad.harvard.edu/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=Betelgeuse&submit=SIMBAD+search" target="_blank">Simbad page for Betelgeuse</a><br />
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/magnitude-astronomy" target="_blank">Astronomical Magnitude System</a><br />
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01862" target="_blank">Yes, Aboriginal Australians Can and Did Discover the Variability of Betelgeuse</a><br />
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Host and Producer: Paul Carr<br />
Panelists: Daniela De Paulis, Ciro Villa<br />
Music: Claudio Nuñes, Felipe Sarro (playing Ravel)<br />
Software: Zoom, OBS, Auphonic, Reaper, OS X Mojave<br />
Hardware: Apple, Shure, Focusrite, Cloud, Elgato, LogitechWow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-60654137211120016362019-12-22T03:05:00.001-08:002020-01-20T19:19:03.921-08:00Episode 43 - Adam Dipert Moves in Zero G<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/12485237/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiWtdsfrXCrb0kRN3ijPM5pggWv0BRHdc58I-ZYln0KgX5dkabBZIBvji6P5B6PVMGsQQj9XZqc0t9x3rw_IRELIN6FbvKvBskqcXeTdXpAry5A4JV1j21re3PdxuKT0DuTHvwIgMHJ-U/s1600/Adam_1.1.1_crop_1400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiWtdsfrXCrb0kRN3ijPM5pggWv0BRHdc58I-ZYln0KgX5dkabBZIBvji6P5B6PVMGsQQj9XZqc0t9x3rw_IRELIN6FbvKvBskqcXeTdXpAry5A4JV1j21re3PdxuKT0DuTHvwIgMHJ-U/s200/Adam_1.1.1_crop_1400.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://www.adamdipert.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Adam Dipert</a> is a veteran circus performer and dancer who recently received his PhD in physics from Arizona State University. He has brought his various interests together by researching human movement in microgravity. We are going to let him tell you all about that.<br />
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Adam will be presenting about this work at the <strong>Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces</strong> in Providence, Rhode Island, USA at Brown University, March 5-7 2020. Link to conference here: <a href="http://www.choreotech.com/vision" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://www.choreotech.<wbr></wbr>com/vision</a></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_sticks" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Flower Sticks</a><br />
<a href="https://www.gozerog.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zero G</a><br />
<a href="https://www.kitsoudubois.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kitsou Dubois</a><br />
<a href="https://contactquarterly.com/about-us/index.php" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Orienting Beyond Gravity: Training with Kitsou Dubois</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/XOuiGlz8dGM" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Partner Stilting Acrobatics</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/dhyMStvwOiQ" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A video of Adam in Zero G</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/d1sr6aVzW9M" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Skylab Astronauts Doing Gymnastics in Zero G</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froude_number" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Froude Number</a><br />
<a href="https://www.kristinaisabelledance.com/new-page" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kristina isabelle</a><br />
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Co-hosts: Daniela DePaulis and Paul Carr<br />
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Music: <a href="http://djspooky.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">DJ Spooky</a><br />
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<br />Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-27024744467125044392019-12-11T03:05:00.001-08:002020-04-10T12:09:20.374-07:00Episode 42 - Moon bouncing with Julia DeMarines<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/12351089/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Co-hosts <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daniela DePaulis</a> and Paul Carr welcome <a href="https://seti.berkeley.edu/people/Julia.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Julia DeMarines</a> (@LifeNSpace) to talk about <a href="https://seti.berkeley.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Berkeley SETI</a>, and Daniela has used <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/moon-relay/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">moonbounce</a> in her art projects, including <a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/cogito/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cogito.</a><br />
bouncing radio signals off the moon. Julia is involved in a moon bounce research project for <br />
We also get into a discussion of METI, and the importance of message composition to humans.<br />
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<span class="il">Julia</span> <span class="il">DeMarines</span> is an Astrobiologist and science communicator working at the UC Berkeley SETI Research Center and with Blue Marble Space. She is a 2019 National Geographic <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/professional-development/grosvenor-teacher-fellows/2018-fellows/&source=gmail&ust=1576076154227000&usg=AFQjCNG4tdztAA8Ex2jf01DsM-XNEEDV1g" href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/professional-development/grosvenor-teacher-fellows/2018-fellows/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Explorer and 2018 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow</a>, and a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sharingscience.agu.org/voices-for-science/voices-for-science-class-of-2019/&source=gmail&ust=1576076154227000&usg=AFQjCNHsKMQz7JohInY-48tHJpibI9Lbfg" href="https://sharingscience.agu.org/voices-for-science/voices-for-science-class-of-2019/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> 2019 AGU Voices for Science</a> advocate. Her <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia_Demarines&source=gmail&ust=1576076154227000&usg=AFQjCNHeHeIMaHSvZIu35Uo7gc94WsSmpQ" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia_Demarines" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> research</a> involves detecting life in the Universe through biosignatures and technosignatures and the ethics of sending powerful, intentional messages into space. She is passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists and teaches to underserved students around the world through the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.adastra.world/&source=gmail&ust=1576076154227000&usg=AFQjCNHTMQWYl62j4FlcMPnEHk7gBXHdnQ" href="http://www.adastra.world/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Ad Astra Academy</a>. <span class="il">Julia</span> also runs her own outreach events called “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://spaceinyourface.org/&source=gmail&ust=1576076154227000&usg=AFQjCNH1ImtUgJJ5VrNllayfTT2bvub-TA" href="http://spaceinyourface.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Space in Your Face!</a>” – a space variety show involving comedy, local artists, and cover songs. </div>
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Twitter: @LifeNspace</div>
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Instagram: @mote_of_dust</div>
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Facebook: @JuliaDeMarines</div>
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Sullivan (1979), <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980ASSL...83..227S/abstract" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Radio leakage and eavesdropping</a><br />
Sullivan and Knowles(1985), <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985IAUS..112..327S/abstract" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lunar Reflections of Terrestrial Radio Leakage</a>.<br />
DeMarines+ (2019), <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019BAAS...51c.558D/abstract" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Observing the Earth as a Communicating Exoplanet</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/09/episode-36-one-earth-message.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The One Earth Message</a><br />
<a href="https://t.co/qx0xGBPm17?amp=1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The LUVOIR telescope</a><br />
<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/habex/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The HabEx Observatory</a><br />
<a href="https://www.he360.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">HawkEye 360</a><br />
David Grinspoon's appearances on this podcast: <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2013/02/episode-4-all-lonely-planets.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">first</a>, <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/01/season-2-episode-10-lets-go-explore.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">second</a>, <a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/11/s3-ep-10-human-up.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">third</a>.<br />
Andrew Siemion's appearances: <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/03/s2-ep-12-seti-at-ska.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">first</a>, <a href="https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/09/season-3-episode-1-breakthrough-listen.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">second</a>.<br />
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Our guest on <a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/08/burst-19-lost-stars.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Burst 19</a> in 2016, <a href="https://www.nordita.org/people/staff/index.php?u=beatriz.villarroel" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Beatriz Villarroel</a>, returns to give us an update on the vanishing star, following the release of <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05068" rel="noopener" target="_blank">a new paper</a> detailing a much more ambitious project along the same lines that finds a number of new candidate objects.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Society_%E2%80%93_Palomar_Observatory_Sky_Survey" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The POSS-I Survey</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/research/Pan-STARRS.shtml">Pan-STARRS</a><br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36684761-chasing-disclosure" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Chasing Disclosure</a> (work of fiction that mentions the earlier research)<br />
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Music: DJ Spooky and Jason Robinson<br />
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<br />Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-9974315282952489892019-10-15T23:06:00.001-07:002019-10-17T06:40:33.562-07:00Episode 40 - Extraterrestrial Languages<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11637812/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrial-languages" rel="noopener" target="_blank">MIT Press Page for Interstellar Languages</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/DMOberhaus" target="_blank">Follow Daniel Oberhaus on Twitter</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daniela de Paulis</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/11/episode-37-sonar-calling-gj-273b.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The 2017 Sonar message</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/02/episode-35-there-is-here.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">There is Here</a><br />
<a href="http://www.unseenpodcast.com/2017/12/episode-84-will-religious-aliens-serve.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Risks of METI and Religious Aliens</a><br />
Marvin Minsky: <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/AlienIntelligence.html" target="_blank">Communication with Alien Intelligence</a><br />
<a href="http://www.unseenpodcast.com/2017/08/episode-77-question.html" target="_blank">The Question</a>: the ontological status of mathematics<br />
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<br />Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-65398507102862926382019-09-29T09:05:00.001-07:002019-09-29T19:04:07.033-07:00Episode 39 - Sofia Sheik and The Nine Axes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A conversation with SETI researcher Sofia Sheikh about how we <img alt="The 9 axes" height="351" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/40515/9axes.png" style="border-width: 12px; float: right; margin: 12px;" width="250" />should evaluate technosignature search strategies. We cover three examples of technosignature searches and their relative advantages.<br />
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Sofia Sheikh is a third-year graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University working with Dr. Jason Wright. She did her undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where she became involved with the Breakthrough Listen Initiative. Her work incorporates both theoretical approaches to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and observational radio searches for technosignatures. She intends to be the first woman to complete a SETI PhD thesis.<br />
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<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02683" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Nine Axes of Merit</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/SETIPaperReacts" target="_blank">Sofia Sheik's Twitter Page</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/03/s2-ep-12-seti-at-ska.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Andrew Siemion on SETI at the SKA</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/09/season-3-episode-1-breakthrough-listen.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Breakthrough Listen</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/01/burst-21-absolute-definitive-truth.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Truth about Alien Megastructures</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/11/episode-37-sonar-calling-gj-273b.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sonar Calling GJ273B</a><br />
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Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-40311316075233907692019-08-06T13:42:00.003-07:002019-08-06T13:42:30.812-07:00Plotting the Boyajian's Star Light Curves - it's all on GitHub (and reddit)I've been plotting the light curves for Boyajian's Star since we first had any significant data from AAVSO. Back then (2015, early 2016) we were seeing a downward trend, but had no idea that the trend would level off and a series of weird dips would begin in 2017. After that - some the color bands have shown a slight brightening trend, and others have looked quite flat on average. The fact that we are seeing different trends in different colors tells us something about the nature of Where The Flux is hidden, although I have yet to see a model that explains everything.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boyajian's Star as observed by AAVSO and ASAS-SN in V and R bands. The dashed vertical lines are dips.</td></tr>
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Right now, <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/" target="_blank">the TESS space telescope</a> is observing a patch of the sky that includes Boyajian's Star. We should have those high-cadence data in a month or two, and I will of course be naively plotting it and puzzling over it.<br />
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If you would like to see the data I plot or the <a href="https://www.r-project.org/" target="_blank">R</a> scripts I plot it with, please feel free to go over the GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/pdcarr/Boyajians_R">https://github.com/pdcarr/Boyajians_R</a><br />
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<a href="https://github.com/pdcarr/Boyajians_R" target="_blank">On GitHub</a> I have all the data I've accumulated in the data folder, so you don't have to go look for it. I keep it up to date as best I can. I use <a href="https://www.r-project.org/" target="_blank">R</a> to plot and fit the data because <a href="https://www.r-project.org/" target="_blank">R is free</a>, robust, and pretty easy to script. As always, there is more than one way to do it. I will consider accepting pull requests, BTW.<br />
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Over on <a href="http://reddit.comhttps//www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/comments/bwdlx4/summer_2019_peak_season_photometry_thread_is_a/" target="_blank">reddit</a>, we try to keep everyone up to date on what the light curve is up to. The subreddits to look on are <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/" target="_blank">KIC8462852</a> and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852_Analysis/" target="_blank">KIC8462852_Analysis</a>. As we discussed <a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/02/burst-32-become-boyajians-star.html" target="_blank">on our last Burst</a>, there is an ongoing project initiated by Tabby to track the long term trend in the star as function of color using a steady cadence of data from Las Cumbres. You can still get involved with that if your are interested.<br />
<br />Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-47844233673868413852019-02-18T20:20:00.001-08:002019-02-19T14:02:38.220-08:00Burst 32 - Become a Boyajian's Star Scientist in Your Spare Time<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/8697086/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Released: 18 February 2019<br />
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Duration: 6 minutes, 48 seconds<br />
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Paul Carr summarizes why we want to know more about this star, and how you can get involved.<br />
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Links:</h2>
<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/tabetha_boyajian_the_most_mysterious_star_in_the_universe?language=en" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe</a> (Tabby's TED Talk)<br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/03/burst-13-tabbys-star-for-perplexed-part.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/01/season-3-episode-3-slow-and-fast.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star</a> (Brad Schaefer)<br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/08/3-episode-8-ben-montet-makes-star.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852_Analysis/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The <strong>KIC8462852_Analysis</strong> subreddit</a><br />
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<a href="https://t.co/4OsKsJvBZr" target="_blank">The script for this episode</a> (Creative Commons)<br />
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Credits:</h2>
Host and Producer: Paul Carr<br />
Music: DJ Spooky<br />
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<br />Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-15015888673612576222019-02-06T19:32:00.001-08:002019-02-06T19:44:13.849-08:00Burst 31 Beyond the SETI Paradigm<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/8524106/height/100/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/menu//direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Released: 6 February 2019<br />
Duration: 16 Minutes, 51 Seconds<br />
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Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy kicked up a kerfuffle when they wrote a paper suggesting that one possible explanation for ‘Oumuamua was that it could be an artificial object, in other words, an alien spacecraft—specifically, a lightsail. The two have been praised for their boldness and condemned for their recklessness, but little has been said concerning the possibility of detecting a lightsail as a technosignature in comparison to detecting a “conventional” technosignature such as the radio and laser beacons that SETI searches for. When we look out into the universe for signs of intelligence, if there are technosignatures to be seen, what technologies ought we to expect to be the most common? <br />
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<strong>Links</strong></h2>
<a href="https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/07/28/stagnant-supercivilizations-and-interstellar-travel/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stagnant Supercivilizations and Interstellar Travel</a><br />
“<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?</a>” Bialy and Loeb<br />
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/ignore-all-the-stories-about-oumuamua-the-harvard-paper-and-aliens/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists; “Scientists are perfectly happy to publish an outlandish idea.”</a> by Eric Berger<br />
<a href="https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Breakthrough Starshot</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightSail" rel="noopener" target="_blank">lightsail</a> (Wikipedia)<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Interstellar-Age-Forty-Year-Voyager-Mission/dp/1101983892/"> The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission</a> by Jim Bell<br />
<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-voyager-2-could-be-nearing-interstellar-space"> NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space</a><br />
<a href="http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html">The Great Filter—Are We Almost Past It?</a> by Robin Hanson<br />
<a href="https://medium.com/@jnnielsen/seti-as-a-process-of-elimination-37daae3b1cda" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SETI as a Process of Elimination</a><br />
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Credits</h2>
Written and Presented by: Nick Nielsen<br />
Postproduction: Paul Carr<br />
Music: DJ Spooky<br />
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Paul Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16996381651333056350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-66852846490383104362018-11-13T13:22:00.003-08:002019-02-06T04:48:09.198-08:00Our new Discord Server. Come on over:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-42924758910256163332018-04-25T18:24:00.001-07:002018-04-25T18:29:12.994-07:00Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6523239/height/100/width/480/theme/legacy/autonext/no/autoplay/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/menu/no/direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="480"></iframe><br />
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Released: 24 April 2018<br />
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Paul Carr talks about today's much more accurate distance estimate to Boyajian's Star from Gaia Data<br />
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Release 2, and what, if anything, this rules out.<br />
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Links:</h2>
Clemens+ (2018) - <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03299" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Proper Motion of the Faint Star near KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star) - Not a Binary System</a><br />
Boyajian+ (2015) - <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Where's the Flux?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/05/season-3-episode-6-not-glimmer-of-idea.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Interview with Brad Schaefer</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2016/08/3-episode-8-ben-montet-makes-star.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder</a><br />
Castelaz and Barker (2018) - <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01943" rel="noopener" target="_blank">KIC 8462852: Maria Mitchell Observatory Photographic Photometry 1922 to 1991</a><br />
<a href="https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Gaia DR2</a><br />
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Credits:</h2>
Host and Producer: Paul Carr<br />
Music: Jason Robinson<br />
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Wow! Signal Podcasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01099847706784873993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040428053551192039.post-46989034785602600522018-04-23T20:05:00.001-07:002018-04-24T07:03:14.411-07:00Burst 29 - Caral Supe and Evangeline<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="100" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6514885/height/100/width/480/theme/legacy/autonext/no/autoplay/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/menu/no/direction/forward/tdest_id/120098/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="480"></iframe><br />
Released: 23 April 2018<br />
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Paul Carr reviews what has been happening over the Winter and early Spring with respect to Boyajian's Star. We review the Winter observations, the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01943" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Castelaz and Barker paper</a>, and the two surprise March dips, Caral-Supe and Evangeline. We also talk about the upcoming Gaia Data Release 2 and what it might mean.<br />
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Links</h2>
<a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/12/burst-24-summer-of-tabbys-star.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Burst 24</a> and <a href="http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2017/12/burst-24-summer-of-tabbys-star.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Burst 25</a><br />
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01943" rel="noopener" target="_blank">KIC 8462852: Maria Mitchell Observatory Photographic Photometry 1922 to 1991</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wherestheflux.com/blog" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Where's The Flux</a>?<br />
<a href="http://www.brucegary.net/ts6/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bruce Gary's Boyajian's Star Page</a><br />
<a href="https://github.com/pdcarr/Boyajians_R" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Boyajian's R</a><br />
<a href="https://cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Gaia DR2</a><br />
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Credits</h2>
Host and Producer: Paul Carr<br />
Music: Jason Robinson<br />
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