A short message of farewell
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This is the last recording I will make for this podcast. It is time to finally move on. I began this podcast with Episode 1 near the end of 2012 when I was in my mid 50s. Although we have been on a very long hiatus since , I had the intention that when I retired I would either bring the podcast out of hiatus or permanently end it. As I got closer to that time, I understood that I only wanted to restart the podcast if I could put a fair bit of time and energy into it and put out frequent, quality content. Like the previous episodes, the new ones would be commercial free, audio only, go as deep...
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Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez
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We welcome back from the University of Puerto Rico to tell us about recent research into data from the Arecibo radio telescope focused on cold hydrogen clouds and a proposed natural explanation for the Big Ear Wow! Signal that we covered in depth in . We recommend so you can follow along. Links: Astrophysical MASERs (microwave lasers) Credits Host, editor, producer: Paul Carr Music: (Black Swan), (Far), by is licensed under
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Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients
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Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Reports, "Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950."
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Episode 49 - Existential Risk
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Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis are joined by author Thomas Moynihan. The subject is the idea of human extinction and how it evolved into our present day understand of Existential Risk.
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Episode 48 - Chelsea Haramia on the Ethics of METI
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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.
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Episode 47 - Arthur C. Clarke, Godfather of Satellites
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Co hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis welcome space historian David Skogerboe to talk about the pro-space activism of Arthur C. Clarke.
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Episode 46 - Extraterrestrials
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Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, Extraterrestrials. The book covers astrobiology, SETI, the Fermi paradox and more for a literate but non-specialist audience.
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Episode 45 - Among the Space People with Paola Castaño
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Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis welcome Dr. Paola Castaño to talk about her research among the science teams working on the international Space Station.
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Burst 33 - Astronomer David Blank Comments on Episode 41
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Astronomer David Blank responded to our invitation to comment on the Villarroel+ paper we covered in Episode 41, which he describes as "very fascinating."
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Episode 44 - The Night Watch
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Astronomer Stella Kafka of the AAVSO
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Released: 6 April 2020
Duration: 53 minutes, 55 seconds
Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, Extraterrestrials. The book covers astrobiology, SETI, the Fermi paradox and more for a literate but non-specialist audience.
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.
For more information, please visit us at https://wowsignalpodcast.com
Links:
The Extraterrestrial page at MIT Press
Six Strange Facts about Oumuamua
Sofia Sheikh and the Nine Axes
Stephen Webb's Book on the Fermi Paradox
Seth Shostak on the Zoo Hypothesis
The Hub and Spoke Podcast Network
Credits
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Lloyd Rogers and Jason Robinson
The Wow! Signal is released under the Creative Commons Attribution License