The Wow! Signal Podcast

Released: 18 May 2016

Durations: 3 minutes, 33 seconds

A short Burst to briefly explain today's development and to ask listeners to seriously consider donating to the new Kickstarter to monitor KIC…

Released: 3 May 2016

Duration: 35 minutes, 43 seconds

Stella Kafka, director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) tells us about how her organization observes variable sta…

Released: 6 April 2016

Duration: 43 minutes, 45 seconds

Thread: Astronomy and Astrophysics

In Tabbys' Star for the Perplexed Part 1, we explained why this is puzzling star. In Part 2, we talked abo…

Released: 31 March 2016

Duration: 13 minutes, 21 seconds

Paul Carr continues with our series explaining just what is so puzzling about Tabby's Star, aka KIC 8462852. In this part we talk about some…

Released: 16 March 2016

Duration: 13 minutes, 25 seconds

Science does not occur in a vacuum, and this is doubly true in the case of SETI, which is said to suffer from a "giggle factor." How does so…

Released: 14 March 2016

Duration:22 minutes, 55 seconds

We talk to Netherlands astronomer Jason Hessels, corresponding author on a recent paper in Nature describing a repeating fast radio burst. Fo…

Released: 10 March 2016

Duration: 18 minutes, 1 second

In Part 1, Paul Carr provides a non-technical explanation of why the star informally known as Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) is so perplexing afte…

Released: 13 February 2016

Duration:20 minutes, 35 seconds

Nick Nielsens's show notes:

Released: 6 February 2016

Duration: 22 minutes, 18 seconds

An edited interview with Dr. Josh Grindlay concerning the use of measurements of star brightness from the Digital Access to a Sky Century @H…

Released: 14 January 2016

Duration: 62 minutes 4 seconds

Host Paul Carr talks to Dr. Bradley Schaefer about his research showing a dramatic dimming of Tabby's Star over a century. This all but rule…

Released: 3 December 2015

Duration: 13 minutes, 43 seconds

Is the cosmos a trackless wilderness in which apex predators, in the form of advanced extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs), roam at will,…

Released: 21 November 2015

Duration: 15 minutes, 30 seconds

Nick Nielsen talks about what we might observe from long dead ET civilizations.

Nick Nielsen's Blog Post

How Old is ET?

The Rela…

Released: 17 November 2015

Duration 6 minutes, 18 seconds

Paul Carr briefly discusses a few issues that asteroid mining raises, at least in part responding to an Unseen Podcast blog post comment by "…

Released: 2 November 2015

Duration: 53 minutes, 33 seconds

Host Paul Carr interviews Dr. Martin Elvis of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Martin Elvis has a substantial background i…

Recorded: 30 September 2015

Released: 1 October 2015

Paul Carr walks us through a simple explanation of why we can't travel to the nearby stars - yet.  Sorry, but space is big. Really big.

For more i…

Released: 21 September 2015

Duration: 56 minutes, 40 seconds

Paul Carr talks to UC Berkeley SETI scientist Andrew Siemion about the exciting new SETI initiative called Breakthrough Listen.

• Introdu…

Release Date: 12 July 2015

Duration: 19 minutes, 58 seconds

Mike Mongo has a brief conversation with Jeff Nosanov about his innovative PERISCOPE concept to explore the caves of the moon with lasers…

Releast Date: 8 April 2015

A recent paper, Discrete Steps in Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts, has generated a lot of excitement. Paul Carr reviews the basic facts about the 11 known FRBs and…

Thread(s): SETI

Host: Paul Carr

We talk to UC Berkeley’s Andrew P.V Simeon, lead author of a recent paper on what will change about SETI when the Square Kilometer Array comes online

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