The blog of the open participation, unscripted, uncensored, Creative Commons spinoff podcast of the Wow! Signal.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Episode 91 - Speaking in Tongues
Recorded: 25 May 2018
Duration: 74 minutes, 17 seconds
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Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Sam Lichtenstein, Patrick Festa, and Nick Nielsen to talk about the evolution and extinction of human languages.
Links:
The pre-show discussion thread
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (linguistic relativity)
Recommendations:
Patrick: Kay Scarpetta Book Series
Paul: Desert Oracle Radio
Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul CarrMusic: DJ Spooky
The Unseen Podcast is released under the Creative Common Attribution/Share-Alike license
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Episode 90 - The 10,000 Year Water Nomads
Recorded: 20 April 2018
Released: 21 April 2018
Duration: 88 minutes, 9 seconds
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| The handoff Homie Naled |
Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Nick Nielsen and Sam Lichtenstein to talk about - well, just listen (or browse the links)...
Links
The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? (official journal link)
Atomic Priesthoods, Thorn Landscapes, and Munchian Pictograms: How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations
Permanent Markers Implementation Plan
Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul CarrMusic: DJ Spooky
The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Episode 89 - XRisk
Recorded: 6 April 2018
Released: 7 April 2018
Duration: 91 minutes, 56 seconds
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Host Paul Carr welomes panelists Gita Jaisinghani, Sam Lichtenstein, Nick Nielsen and Adam Smith
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| Eric Drexler |
Topics include: nanotechnology, pandemics, AI, and Climate Change. As usual, we let the discussion wander where it will go.
Links
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Nanotechnology: Armed resistance
Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research
Credits
Host and Producer: Paul CarrMusic: DJ Spooky
Links: Nick Nielsen
Friday, March 16, 2018
Unseen Pub #8 tonight - join us!
Here is the watch live link if you don't want to participate:
If you do, just meet up with us on Twitter, @podcastunseen, and tell us you'd like to be on #upub8.
If you do, just meet up with us on Twitter, @podcastunseen, and tell us you'd like to be on #upub8.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Episode 88 - Chad Davies on the Scientific Odyssey
Recorded: 16 February 2018
Duration: 85 minutes, 8 seconds
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Host Paul Carr welcomes special guest Chad Davies of the Scientific Odyssey podcast, and panelists Sam Lichtenstein and Patrick Festa, to talk about the history and philosophy of science.
erratum: at the end, the host says it's the 16th of September. It was February.
Links:
the Scientific Odyssey Podcast:Chad Davies on Twitter
The Doom of Spacetime
Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul CarrMusic: DJ Spooky
The Unseen Podcast
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Episode 87 - The Fight for Kids in Space
Recorded: 26 January 2018
Released: 27 January 2018Duration: 104 minutes 39 seconds
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Host Paul Carr is joined by special guest panelist and documentary filmmaker Paul Hildebrandt, director of The Fight for Space. Joining The two Pauls are Mike Mongo, Jon Eckberg, and Nick Nielsen. We talk about kids in space, and how it relates to Paul Hildebrandt's kickstarter for his film First to the Moon.
Links
Fight for SpaceFirst to the Moon Kickstarter
Eric S. Raymond on Google Plus
Linus Torvalds on Google Plus
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| Sally Ride |
Who Was Sally Ride?
Christa McAuliffe
Apollo 8
Thomas Selfridge, first person to die in an airplane crash
Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul CarrMusic: DJ Spooky
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