The Unseen Podcast

The Unseen Podcast

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The Unseen Podcast episodes

  • Episode 14 - Designer Babies in Space!

    Recorded: 10 July 2015

    Released: 11 July 2015

    Duration: 72 minutes, 28 seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr welcomes molecular biologist Chelsea Villaneuva and skeptic Patrick FEsta for a fascinating converation about the past and future of human evolution. What is the science fo epigenetics, and how is it shaping our view of how evolution works?

     

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 13 - Who Can You Trust?

     

    Recorded: 3 July 2015

    Released: 3 July 2015

    Duration: 71 minutes, 40 seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr welcomes Adam Synergy (aka Adam Smith), Mike Bohler, Nick Nielsen and Chris McGinlay. We started talking about some of the exciting new developments in space science, as well some of the crazy that invevitably gets excreted whenever we have new images of a planet. We alos complain a bit all the mystery mongering. We also talk about the Elders, international peace, and the Grexit. Will there also be a Brexit?

     

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    Stuart Robbins

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    The Elders

    Grexit

    Brexit

     

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    Host and Producer: Paul Carr

    Panelists: Adam Smith, Mike Bohler, Nick Nielsen, Chris McGinlay

    Music: DJ Spooky

     

     

     

     

     

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 12 - Starship Congress

    Host James Garrison welcomes Andrew Boyter, Buck Field, Mike Mongo and special guest Andreas Tziolas of Icarus Interstellar. The team discuss the upcoming Starrship Congress and go off on the the required number of tangents, including the rules for swigging.

     

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    1 hr 40 min
  • Episode 11 - Conspiracies in Space

    Recorded: 19 June 2015

    Released: 20 June 2015

    Duration: 94 minutes, 22 seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr is joined by TJ Muich, Ciro Villa, James Garrison, Patrick Festa, Mike Bohler and Nick Nielsen. We wanted to talk about consipracy theories surrounding NASA, and this branched out into discussin conspiracy theories in general. We also discussed the relative merits of some of the up and coming science communicators.

     

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    1 hr 35 min
  • Episode 10- Highly Sophisticated Slime

    Recorded: 12 June 2015

    Released: 13 June 2015

    Duration: 76 minutes, 20 seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Andrew Boyter, Patrick Festa, James Garrison and David Grigg to talk about the human exploration of Jupiter's Moon Europa and what that means to us. 

     

     

    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode 9 - How Not to Science

    Recorded: 5 June 2015

     

    Released: 6 June 2015

     

    Duration: 78 minutes, 43 Seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr is joined by James Garrison and Michael Cornett, to talk about about bad psychology, bad dentistry, bad medicine, and bad jokes.

     

     

    1 hr 19 min
  • Episode 8 - Humans and their telescopes

    Recorded: 22 May2015

    Released: 23 May 2015

     

    Duration: 83 minutes, 14 seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr is joined by Mike Bohler, James Garrison, David Grigg, and Nick Nielsen, in a sprawling conversation about how the human specieis is exploring the universe around ti and where we should go next. 

     

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    1 hr 24 min
  • Episode 7 - Possible Yes, Probably Maybe, Inevitable, No.

    Recorded: 15 May 2015

    Released: 16 May 2015

     Duration: 74 minutes, 30 seconds

     

    Host Paul Carr welcomes Science Fiction writer David Grigg, astronaut teacher Mike Mongo, and Oklahoma Skeptic James Garrison to a stretched out, relaxed conversation about the Fermi paradox and related topics.

     

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    Host and Producer: Paul Carr

    Panel: James Garrison, David Grigg, Mike Mongo

    Music: DJ Spooky

    Software: Reaper, Auphonic

    Hardware: Zoom (with a dying battery)

    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 6 - Faster Than Light?

    Recorded: 8 May 2015

     

    Released: 9 May 2015

     

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    Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Mike Bohler, Buck Field and Patrick Festa to talk about the possibility of physics breakthroughs that cold lead to faster than light travel.

    We had some technical problems with the Hangout on Air, but we shold have it fixed in the future.

    1 hr 35 min
  • Episode 5 - Farms, Galaxies, Same Thing

     

    Recorded: 1 May 2015

    Released: 2 May 2015

     

     

    Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists James Garrison, Ciro Villa, and Nick Nielsen. First, we talk about the recent finding of the GHAT team from their mining of the WISE survey,loooking for galaxies with anomalously mid infrared  emission, indicating that most of the free energy in the galaxy was being harvested. This has been in the press a lot lately, and easily misinterpreted. What is a Kardashev level III civlization, and how would we know it?

    WE discuss the recent optimistic declaration by NASA Cheif scientist Ellen Stofan about the search for microbial life in the solar system, and this leads us to several other topics,  inlcuding robot farming and how hard revolutions can be.

     

    1 hr 25 min

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Each week, a new panel will examine the frontiers of human knowledge, human action, and human aspiration from their own perspectives. The conversation is unscripted, uncensored, and open to anyone who…