The Wow! Signal Podcast

Released: 25 January 2018

Duration: 21 minutes, 51 seconds

A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the nature and structure of the universe, and at the heart of this struggle…

Released: 21 January 2018

Duration: 19 minutes

A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the nature and structure of the universe, and at the heart of this struggle was the isl…

Released: 3 January 2018

Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds

Host Paul Carr goes over the new paper by Tabetha Boyajian and 206 coauthors: The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852. 

Released: 31 December 2017

Duration: 65 minutes, 20 seconds

Daniela DePaulis and Nick Nielsen in conversation with Frank White on the Overview Effect.

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Released: 3 December 2017

Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

Host Paul Carr covers some recent developments with respect to Boyajian's Star, especially the 4 dips of the Summer of 2017.

where…

Released: 16 November 2017

Duration: 48 minutes, 5 seconds

Host Paul Carr talks to Douglas Vakoch of METI.org about a recent transmission using a powerful radar transmitter to the star GJ 273, whic…

Released: 14 November 2017

A short note from Paul Carr to please stay tuned for more content. Sorry for the lull, but we are not fading - we wouldn't do that to you.

Meanwhile, if you haven't already…

Released: 3 September 2017

Duration: 62 minutes, 37 seconds

Host Daniela De Paulis along with Paul Carr in conversation with artist Jon Lomborg, designer of Carl Sagan's Voyager Golden Record, on h…

Released: 5 June 2017

Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds

Paul Carr talks with Tabetha Boyajian about the flurry of observations of KIC 8462852 conducted when the star dipped in brightness last month, …

Released: 19 May 2017

Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds

Host Paul Carr provides some brief remarks and one or two speculations about the dimming of Tabby's Star that began today.

The Reddit …

Released: 13 February 2017

Duration:90 minutes, 38 seconds

In this episode we explore Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, with METI.org President Douglas Vakoch and interdisciplinary …

Released: 2 January 2017

Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds

Based upon a Dream of the Open Channel blog entry, we discuss why there may not be any galaxy-scale megastructures, but what sort of stella…

Released: 28 November 2016

Duration: 59 minutes, 2 seconds

Astrobiologist and Author David Grinspoon joins us to talk about his new book, Earth in Human Hands - Shaping Our Planet's Future. Followi…

Recorded: 14 September 2016

Released: 14 September 2016

Duration:22 minutes, 22 seconds

Astronomer Tabetha "Tabby" Boyajian joined Paul Carr, Roger Wehbe, and Rusty Schweikart in a Google Hangout t…

Released: 8 August 2016

Duration:47 minutes 44 seconds

Host Paul Carr talks to CalTech astronomer Ben Montet,who has, with his colleague Joshua Simon, just published the result that Tabby's Star (K…

Released: 31 July 2016

Duration: 24 minutes, 11 seconds

Host Paul Carr discusses the recent paper "Our Sky Now and Then" with lead author and astronomer Beatriz Villarroel,a PhD student at the Univ…

Released: 28 July 2016

Duration: 43 minutes, 45 seconds

James Garrison speaks with latest holder of the Library of Congress Baruch Blumberg chair of astrobiology, Nathaniel Comfort. His current boo…

Released: 4 July 2016

Duration: 20 minutes, 41 seconds

SETI research is much like the traditional task of a tracker, who seeks the spoor of elusive quarry through a wilderness. In the search for life…

Released: 22 June 2016

Duration: 41 minutes, 19 seconds

Daniela De Paulis hosts a conversation with the team producing the crowdfunded feature-length SETI documentary Earthlings Quest, and one of t…

Released: 27 May 2016

Duration: 67 minutes, 16 seconds

We interview LSU astronomer Bradley Schaefer about why is sticking to his guns about the century-long dimming of Tabby's Star (KIC 8462952), w…