The Unseen Podcast

Recorded: 24 April 2015

Released: 25 April 2015

We had serious technical challenges to overcome this time, but overcome we did. Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Marsha Barnhart and Buck Field and special guest Hiroja Shibe of the Musings of a Shibe podcast. The subject is the emerging peer-to-peer economy enabled by crytptocurrencies like DogeCoin. We talk about the history of cryptocurrency, the cutlure around it, and risks and concerns, such as volatility, fraud, and co-opting by the financial elite. 

Links:

The DogeCoin Subreddit

How to contact Hiroja:

Twitter   @MusingsOfAShibe 

Google+   Musings Of A Shibe

Facebook  Musings Of A Shibe 

YouTube  Musings Of A Shibe

Webpage   Musings Of A Shibe Soon to be Musingsofashibepodcast.space

Email     musingsofashibe@outlook.com

About the Unseen Podcast

The Unseen Blog

The Panelists

Unseen on Twitter

The Wow! Signal

Recorded: 17 April 2015

Released: 18 April 2015

Host: Paul Carr

Paul Carr welcomes panelists Buck Field and Chris MacGinlay. We talk about the rise of smart robots, and the hope of Robot Ethics. Did Asimov get it right, or do we have to hope that superintelligent robots find us adorable?

Links:

The Three Laws of Robotics

Oblique Strategies (interview with Robin Hanson)

Credits:

Produced and Engineered by Paul Carr

Music by DJ Spooky

Host Paul Carr welcomes back Marsha Barnhart, Ciro Villa and Nick Nielsen (Patrick Festa joins us late in the show) for an a wide-rangin, unscripted conversation. We talk about how the  peryton mystery may have been solved, Nick's work on the types of civilizations, current and future space propulsion technology, Fast Radio Bursts, the origin and evolution of life on Earth and elsewhere, and the Drake equation.

Identifying the Source of Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope

Thinking About Civilization

Discrete Steps in Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts

Through the Lens of the Drake Equation

The Unseen Podcast

The Wow! Signal

DJ Spooky

Recorded: 3 April 2015

Released: 4 April 2015

Duration: 63 minutes, 20 seconds 

On this, the inaugural episode of the Unseen Podcast, host Paul Carr welcomes Dr. Ben Tippett of the Titanium Physicists podcast to field our questions about the frontiers of physics. We talked about the multiverse, cosmic inflation, gravity waves, black holes, possible new discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider, and much more. Our panelists were Marsha Barnhart, Nick Nielsen and Ciro Villa.

the Unseen Podcast is an open participation podcast. If you want to be added to the panel pool, e-mail us at [email protected] and we'll explain how you can be added to the panel pool. Up to nine people are invited to participate in each panel. We are also looking for special guests, if you have expert knowledge you wish to share with us.

Links

About the Show Contents:

The Titanium Physicists Podcast

Closest Safe Approach to an Accreting Black Hole

The Laser Intereferometry Gravity-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

The Planck Mission

Mini Black Holes Easier to Make than Thought

About the Panelists

Nick Nielsen's Blog

Nick Nielsen's other blog

Centauri Dreams

Ciro Villa

About the Unseen Podcast

The Wow! Signal

A 30 second promo for the Unseen Podcast, with music by DJ Spooky.