The Unseen Podcast

Recorded: 10 November 2017

Released: 11 November 2017

Duration: 92 minutes, 12 seconds

 

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists (King) James Garrison, Nick Nielsen (Benevolent Dictator of the Planet Entire), and (King of the Universe) Patrick Festa for a wide ranging conversation about education. Some of those Lego jokes fall a bit flat..

What would you do about education if you were Benevolent Dictator? Or Andrew Carnegie?

 

Links

Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

What's Your Problem with Higher Education?

Primitive Technology YouTube Channel

LEGO Women of NASA Kit

James Burke BBC Connections

Juvenile violent crime arrest rates

Chad Davies' Scientific Odyssey Podcast

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

Platform: Google Hangouts on Air

Hardware: Shure, Pro Art, TASCAM, Focusrite, Apple

Software: Chrome, Reaper, Loopback, Scarlett Mix Control, Auphonic Leveller, OS X Sierra

Recorded: 27 October 2017

Released: 29 October 2017

Duration: 77 minutes 16 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr is joined by James Garrison, Nick Nielsen, and Mike Bohler to talk about local urban legends and the forces driving. Stories like Chicago's Resurrection Mary have been told all around the world for centuries. Also, portals keep popping up in modern narratives, and perhaps have also been with us for a long time. 

Our conversation ranges from the Purple Church, to Crop Circles, to the Nazca Lines, to the Anasazi to Scotland's Ring of Brodgar, to Skinwalker Ranch, and much more.

Links:

Spooky Oklahoma Legends

Vanishing Hitchhiker

Ring of Brodgar

Nazca Lines

Circle Makers

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

Recorded: 20 October 2017

Released: 21 October 2017

Duration: 85 minutes, 36 seconds

Paul Carr and Adam Smith are joined by NASA Postdoctoral Fellow Eva Bodman, who was recommended to us by Tabetha Boyajian. We discussed the developments on KIC 8462852 (aka Boyajian's Star) over the last year. A lot has happened, and we covered as much as we could. We also took a couple of live questions from the YouTube chat, which is much appreciated.

 

Links

Last years's Episode - 1 Year of WTF

Eva Bodman's Research

Where's The Flux? blog

Tabby's Ted Talk

Tabby's Star for the Perplexed

The KIC8462852 Subreddit and its Wiki

A list of papers on Boyajian's Star and related topics

Tabby on the Gaia Data Release 1

 

Aliens, Perhaps, but Not the Aliens of the Gaps

The Absolute, Definitive Truth About Alien Megastructures

 

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

Recorded: 6 October 2017

Released: 10 October 2017

Duration: 80 minutes 12 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes Jake Robins of the WeMartians podcast, along with panelists Sam Lichtenstein, Adam Smith and Nick Nielsen to talk about the current and future state of the human advance upon the fourth stone from the sun.

Links:

WeMartians

WeMartians on Twitter

Pit Crater in Elysium Mons

The Descent Propulsion System

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license

 

Recorded: 15 September 2017

Released: 16 September 2017

Duration: 81 minutes, 31 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes Adam Smith and Sam Lichtenstein to talk about Przybylski's Star, or HD 101065, possibly the weirdest thing in astrophysics - even weirder than Boyajian's Star, maybe.

Links

Przybylski's Star in Simbad

Jason Wright's blog series on Przybylski's Star

Antoni Przybylski (1961) - HD 101065-a G0 Star with High Metal Content

Antoni Przybylski (1977) - Is iron present in the atmosphere of HD 101065 ?

D.W. Kurtz (1982) - Rapidly oscillating Ap stars

Martinez and Kurtz (1990) - New observations and a frequency analysis of the extremely peculiar rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 101065

Cowley, et. al. (2000) - Abundances in Przybylski's star

Gopka, et. al. (2007) - On the possible nature of Bp-Ap Stars: an application to HD101065 and HR465

Renson and Manfroid (2009) - Catalogue of Ap, HgMn and Am stars

Joshi, et. al. (2016) - The Nainital-Cape Survey. IV. A search for pulsational variability in 108 chemically peculiar stars. 

Chen et. al. (2017) -  A new photometric study of Ap and Am stars in the infrared.

Dzuba, et. al. (2017) - Isotope shift and search for metastable superheavy elements in astrophysical data

 

War is a Racket

RIP Jerry Pournelle

Episode 80 discussion thread

Recommendations

Paul - Alban Berg String Quartet - late Mozart quartets

Sam - Salvation

Adam - Witcher 3

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

Recorded: 4 September 2017

Released: 4 September 2017

Duration: 70 minutes, 11 seconds

Host Paul Carr welcomes long-time panelist Nick Nielsen to talk about some of the latest news in radios astronomy - both the serious science and the lurid headlines. Radio Bursts (FRBs) have been know for some years now, but a the only known repeating FRB, 121102, has been acting up lately.

  Links

FRB 121102: Detection at 4 - 8 GHz band with Breakthrough Listen backend at Green Bank

BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN DETECTS REPEATING FAST RADIO BURSTS FROM THE DISTANT UNIVERSE

Jason Siegel: Five Reasons Why The Signals From Stephen Hawking's Breakthrough Initiative Aren't Aliens

Astronomer Jason Hessels on the repeating FRB

Astronomers have found the source of a deep space radio wave burst for the first time: We finally know the galactic culprit

The Most Mysterious Star in the Galaxy

exoplanets.eu

  Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

Recorded: 25 August 2017

Released: 26 August 2017

Duration: 93 minutes 16 seconds

Host Paul Carr welomes panelists Nick Nielsen and Sam Lichtenstein, who soldier on when Paul's Thunderbolt 3 hub crashes. They engage in a discussion of whether mathematics is discovered or invented. How does this apply to efforts to communicate with distant technological civilizations? Could math be used to establish a common language?

Links:

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Science

The Mandelbrot Set Crop Circle Formation   by Joseph E. Mason

A Conversation with Edward Snowden (Part 1) (SETI at 33:00 and following)

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Awarded $7.5 Million Department of Defense Grant To Reshape Mathematics

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

Recorded: 11 August 2017

Released: 12 August 2017

Duration: 100 minutes, 41 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes Sam Lichtenstein, Patrick Festa, Nick Nielsen and Mike Bohler to mark the end of the Summer hiatus. Since this is a non-episode, we have no find agenda, so it ranges from the Kennedy assassination to astronomical anomalies.

We also play the short promo for Oh No Ross and Carrie

 

Links

The Skeptics Guide to Conspiracy

Credits

host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: Dj Spooky

 

 

Recorded: 16 June 2017

Released: 17 june 2017

Duration: 80 minutes 44 seconds

Host Adam Smith welcomes the publisher of Universe Today Fraser Cain to talk about (nearly) twenty years of online space journalism.

Fraser chats with interdisciplinary artist Daniela De Paulis, Astronomy's Finest blogger Mateusz Macias, Paul Carr, and Astronaut Teacher Mike Mongo. Links: Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/ CosmoQuest https://cosmoquest.org/x/ Pamela Gay https://twitter.com/starstryder Phil Plait http://www.blastr.com/tags/bad-astronomy   Tabetha Boyajian Jason Wright Brian Greene The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox     We mentioned a lot of good YouTube channels   (who knows some of them might come on the show :) Paul Matt Sutter :                              https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBr7XOxxQyBHEwqkhoci7vw  Sarah Pearson :                                https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGozv81LbhEvkeYIW7ora8g Emily Lakdawalla                              https://www.youtube.com/user/planetsocblog Scott Manley :                                  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scott+manley nathan for you seven year old :          https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nathan+for+you+seven+year+old Ian O Neil :                                      https://www.youtube.com/user/AstroengineLive reat     Credits:

Host: Adam Smith

Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

 

Recorded: 2 June 2017

Released: 3 June 2017

Duration: 68 minutes 35 seconds

 

Host Adam Smith welcomes Cambridge PhD student and Mars One astronaut candidate, along with panelists Ciro Villa and Paul Carr. The main topic is exoplanet atmosphere science, but we also discuss Mars colonization.

 

Links:

MacDonald and Madhusudhan: HD 209458b in New Light: Evidence of Nitrogen Chemistry, Patchy Clouds and Sub-Solar Water

 

Episode 69 on TRAPPIST-1

Blue Origin Technology

 

J. Serrano Graphics Design

Credits:

Host: Adam Smith

Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

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