Episode 96 - Meta Solo

Recorded: 14 September 2018
Released: 16 September 2016
Duration: 44 minutes 31 seconds

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The first (and hopefully, last) solo episode, although this is our second meta episode, following a very unpopular one in 2015.

Links

Episode #1
The Unseen Podcast
About the Podcast
The Back Catalog
The Episode Sheet
The Wow! Signal

Desert Oracle Radio

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky

Episode 95 - All Models Are Wrong

Recorded: 31 August 2018
Released: 9 September 2018
Duration: 44 minutes, 14 seconds

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David Hilbert

A continuation of the discussion from Episode 94. Host Paul Carr and panelists Buck Field and Nick Nielsen jam on the theme of what are our models of reality, and what do they mean?

Links:

sieve of Eratosthenes

The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker, and Xiang Chen
Proofs that there are infinitely many primes

Why are there infinitely many prime numbers?

The Autonomy of Mathematical Knowledge: Hilbert's Program Revisited by Curtis Franks

THE PECULIAR MATH THAT COULD UNDERLIE THE LAWS OF NATURE

Cohl Furey

Octonion

How Much Does It Cost To Find A Higgs Boson? by Alex Knapp

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Linkage: Nick Nielsen
Music: DJ Spooky

Episode 94 - No Oranges in My Waldorf Salad

Recorded: 31 August 2018
Released: 2 September 2018
Duration:42 minutes 16 seconds

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Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Buck Field and Nick Nielsen to further extend the discussion
about what mathematics really means.

Episode 95 will pick up where this left off.

Links:

Episode 77 with Sam Lichtenstein and Nick Nielsen

Proofs that there are infinitely many primes
Why are there infinitely many prime numbers?
The Autonomy of Mathematical Knowledge: Hilbert's Program Revisited by Curtis Franks
THE PECULIAR MATH THAT COULD UNDERLIE THE LAWS OF NATURE
Cohl Furey
Octonion
How Much Does It Cost To Find A Higgs Boson? by Alex Knapp
sieve of Eratosthenes

The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker, and Xiang Chen

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Linkage: Nick Nielsen
Music: Dj Spooky


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Episode 93 - The 2018 Summer Non-episode

Recorded: 17 August 2018
Released: 19 August 2018
Duration: 97 minutes, 20 seconds

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Breakthrough Starshot artist's concept

Host Paul Carr is joined by David Grigg, Nick Nielsen, Mike Bohler, and Sam Lichtenstein to talk
about a wide range of cutting edge issues in our Summer non-episode. We started with the recent article by Torres about we should not colonize space.
Please see our main site, unseenpodcast.com for more information about this episode and the podcast. You can discuss the episode and its contents.

Links:

The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracy

Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space by Phil Torres
Space colonization and suffering risks: Reassessing the “maxipok rule” by Phil Torres
Solar storm of 1859
Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
A Super Solar Flare
What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today? Repeat of 1859 Carrington Event would devastate modern world, experts say by Richard A. Lovett
Coronal mass ejection
Stuxnet virus
On the Beach by Nevile Shute (novel)
On the Beach by Nevile Shute (film)

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene by Will Steffen, et al.
Is Humanity About To Accidentally Declare Interstellar War On Alien Civilizations? by Ethan Siegel 
Alex Jones systematic de-Platforming does not bode well for Intellectual Dark Web
The Great Deplatforming War Rages On: Should libertarians cheer, boo, or do a shrug-emoji when a private social media platform bans the likes of Alex Jones? by Matt Welch

Licensing Order of 1643
Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644) 

Licensing of the Press Act 1662
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) 

The Neolithic origins of seafaring in the Arabian Gulf by Robert Carter
Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC by Robert Carter

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
Linkage: Nick Nielsen

A brief announcement for listeners

Released: 18 August 2018

A brief announcement about changes to the podcast format and new destinations for our audio content.  Please see unseenpodcast.com for more information.


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Episode 92 - Mars is wet, but the Moon is near.

Recorded: 27 July 2018
Released: 29 July 2018
Duration: 72 minutes, 2 seconds

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists David Grigg, Nick Nielsen, and Patrick Festa. The cosmic Lyft

driver has pulled up to the curb. Where to next? Moon or Mars, and why? Why anything other than birth, copulation, and death? We get to decide.

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Links:

Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

NASA Office of Planetary Protection

With planetary protection office up for grabs, scientists rail against limits to Mars exploration

Found it! Ice on Mars

Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?

Sputnik Crisis

Sputnik and the Origins of the SpaceAge

Into the Black

Credits: 

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
Linkage: Nick Nielsen

Unseen Pub #9

With Mike Mongo, Nick Nielsen, Mike Bohler, Patrick Festa, and Paul Carr