Episode 97 - Oh Dear, Moon!

Recorded: 28 September 2018
Released: 30 September 2018
Duration: 53 minutes, 31 seconds

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The Big Falcon Spaceship

We don't really talk about current events here at the Unseen Podcast, but sometimes a current event inspires a discussion. We are ignoring all the (arguably justified) fuss about Brett Kavanaugh, and instead are going off on any tangents we can find related to the recent announcement about Dear Moon.

Only in our age can we talk about billionaire Japanese artists going on a trip around the moon. It's a great time to be alive.

Links:

dearmoon.earth
First Lunar BFR Mission
Which artists should SpaceX send to the Moon?
SpaceX Names Their First Private Tourist Headed to the Moon
Tough Jobs: Experimental Aircraft Test Pilot
Pilot Dies in 'Classified' Plane Crash at Nevada Training Range
List of people who died climbing Mount Everest

Credits:

Host and producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky

The Unseen Podcast is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike license.

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


The Unseen Podcast is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.