The Unseen Podcast

By Paul Carr and the Unseen Team

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... more

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How many episodes does The Unseen Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 105 episodes available.

The Unseen Podcast episodes:

September 12, 2015 Episode 24 - Define Panspermia
Recorded: 11 September 2015
Released: 12 September 2015
Duration: 114 minutes, 36 seconds

Host Paul Carr welcomes Patrick Festa, Buck Field, James Garrison, and Adam "Synergy" Smith for a discussion of the latest ideas of panspermia, or how life might migrate between planets or even between stars. The latest paper by Lin and Loeb is brought up. The discussion morphs into one about the history and philosophy of science and then back to panspermia.

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Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Panel: Patrick Festa, Buck Field, James Garrison, and Adam "Synergy" Smith
Music: DJ Spooky
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1h 55min
September 07, 2015 Episode 23 - Reforming Science
Recorded: 7 September 2015
Released: 7 September 2015
Duration: 73 minutes

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Gita Jaisinghani, Lacerant Plainer, Adam "Synergy" Smith, and Nick Nielsen. The subject is the soul serching now going on withing science about reproducibility, the pubkication of negative results, and flaws in thepeer review system. A recent study in Science on the reproducibility of results in psychology triggered our discussion about how science can converge faster onto reliable confirmation of falsification of hypotheses. Can the public trust science?

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Credits:
Hostand Producer: Paul Carr
Panelists: Gita Jaisinghani, Nick Nielsen, Lacerant Plainer, and Adam Smith
Music: Dj Spooky
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1h 14min
September 05, 2015 Episode 22 - Report from Starship Congress
Recorded: 4 September 2015
Released: 5 September 2015
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Host Paul Carr is joined by the panel, including Nick Nielsen and Mike Mongo who report after a long day at Starship Congress. Mike has his friends Rachel Armstrong and Andreas Tziolas with him, and we talk about interstellar flight and how we think it might be possible.

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Episode 21

Credits
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Panel: Mike Bohler, Buck Field, James Garrison, Mike Mongo, Nick Nielsen, Adam "Synergy" Smith
Spontaneous Special Guests: Rachel Armstrong, Andreas Tziolas
Music: DJ Spooky
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1h 27min
August 29, 2015 Episode 21 - Mars One and Its Skeptics
Recorded: 28 August 2015
Released: 29 August 2015
Duration: 89 minutes, 24 seconds

Host James Garrison welcomes Mateusz Macias and Patrick Festa to discuss Mars One, and the balance of risks in colonizing Mars. Does Mars One have a good plan, or a plan at all? Can they admit they are wrong? This spins off into a tangent about atheism, skepticism, and religion.

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Mars One
Mars One debate at the Mars Society
Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me
Pamela Gay: This I Believe
The Wow! Signal

Credits:
Host: James Garrison
Panelists: Mateusz Macias, Patrick Festa
Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
Website and Promotion: Mateusz Macias
Software: Reaper 5.01, Google Hangouts, Soundflower,Line In, Auphonic.com

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1h 30min
August 22, 2015 Episode 20 - Astronomer Pamela Gay
Recorded: 21 August 2015
Released: 22 August 2015

Cohosts Paul Carr and Adam Smith welcome special guest, astronomer Pamela Gay. Dr. Gay is well known in the astronomy community for AStronomy Cast and her direction of Cosmoquest.org. We asked her about Cosmoquest, women in science, and much more.

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Credits
Hosts: Paul Carr and Adam "Synergy" Smith
Producer: Paul Carr
Panelists: Antonio Paris, Ciro Villa, Mateusz Macias, and Patrick Festa
Music: DJ Spooky and George Hrab
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1h 13min
August 15, 2015 Episode 19 - Mysterious Alien Worlds
Recorded: 14 August 2015
Released: 15 August 2015
Duration: 88 minutes, 52 seconds

Host Paul Carr with Adam "Synergy" Smith, Ciro Villa and Patrick Festa discuss some recent discoveries in the exoplanet world, among other things.

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Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Panelists: Adam Smith, Ciro Villa, PA\atrick Festa
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1h 29min
August 08, 2015 Episode 18 - Choosing Science
Recorded: 7 August 2015
Released: 8 August 2015
Duration:93 minutes 48 seconds

Host Paul Carr is Joined by Patrick Festa, James Garrison, and Nick Nielsen. We discuss Nick's latest blog entry on Folk Tales and Scientific Progress, then move on to discussing science literacy and critical thinking. We make fun of Deepak Chopra and have praise for Brian Cox.

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1h 34min
August 01, 2015 Episode 17 - In Search of Breakthroughs
Recorded: 31 July 2015
Released: 1 August 2015
Duration: 82 minutes, 36 seconds

Host Paul Carr welcomes a panel of five for an unscripted discussion of the new Breathrough Listen SETI program, Duncan Forgan's new paper on looking for self-destructed civilizaionts, and much more.

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1h 23min
July 25, 2015 Episode 16 - Brian Koberlein's Universe
Recorded: 24 July 2015
Released: 25 July 2015
Duration: 83 minutes, 28 seconds

Host Paul Carr and our panel welcome astrophysicist Brian Koberlein: teacher, blogger and podcaster. We talk about waht motivates science and science communication, The grand strcuture of the universe, Einstein, Noether and the forces driving genius, and the recent exoplanet discoveries.

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1h 24min
July 18, 2015 Episode 15 - Hard to Explain
Recorded: 17 July 2015
Released: 18 July 2015
Duration: 72 minutes, 12 seconds

Host Paul Carr is joined by Adam "Synergy" Smith, James Garrison and Mike Mongo, to talk about the recent Pluto flyby, the space program in general, exploring the caves of the moon with lasers, what the Chinese are up to on the moon, and of course, Bigfoot. We are all trying to get banned by Richard Hoagland, and Mike Mongo urges full sovereignity for the Conch Republic.

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The Wow! Signal
The New Horizons Mission
Jeff Nosanov talks to Mike Mongo about exploring the caves on the Moon
China is Now Positioned to Dominate the Moon
Finding Bigfoot
The Texas Bank

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1h 13min

FAQs about The Unseen Podcast:

How many episodes does The Unseen Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 105 episodes available.