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The Wow! Signal Podcast

The Wow!Signal Podcast examines a wide range of issues from a scientific perspective through the lens of the search for intelligent life from other worlds.

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21:51

Burst 27 - The Cosmic Archipelago - Part 2

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2018/01/26

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 was the island universe hypothesis. Today we find ourselves confronted with a similar question posed at a far greater scale. As we confront these great questions of cosmology, whether a hundred years ago or today, we find ourselves faced with as many philosophical questions as scientific questions when

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19:01

Burst 26 - The Cosmic Archipelago, Part 1.

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2018/01/21

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 island universe hypothesis. Today we find ourselves confronted with a similar question posed at a far greater scale. As we confront these great questions of cosmology, whether a hundred years ago or today, we find ourselves faced with as many philosophical questions as scientific questions when we challenge

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15:37

Burst 25 - The Elsie Paper

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2018/01/03

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. Links: Burst 13 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, part 1 Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian's on Elsie Burst 24 - The Summer of Tabby's Star Where's The Flux The KIC 8462852 subreddit The KIC 8462852 subreddit wiki The Dream of the Open Channel AAVSO Boyajians_R Credits: Host, producer, writer: Paul Carr Music:

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01:05:20

Episode 38 - The Overview Effect

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2017/12/17

Released: 31 December 2017 Duration: 65 minutes, 20 seconds Daniela DePaulis and Nick Nielsen in conversation with Frank White on the Overview Effect. Detailed show notes To Be Supplied. Please see wowsignalpodcast.com for more information.

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11:44

Burst 24- The Summer of Tabby's Star

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2017/12/03

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. Links: wherestheflux.com Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian discusses Elsie Where Is the Flux Going? The Long-Term Photometric Variability of Boyajian's Star Extinction and the Dimming of KIC 8462852 Optical Polarimetry of KIC 8462852 in May-August 2017 Modelling the KIC8462852 light curves: compatibility of the dips and

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48:06

Episode 37 - Sonar Calling GJ 273B

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2017/11/16

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, which has a super-Earth planet circling it in the habitable zone. Links: GJ 273 on SIMBAD The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XLI. A dozen planets around the M dwarfs GJ 3138, GJ 3323, GJ 273, GJ 628, and GJ 3293 GJ 273 in the Open Exoplanet Catalog Sonar Barcelona EISCAT Tromso Site The

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04:47

A short note for listeners - November 2017

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2017/11/15

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, check out the Unseen Podcast.

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01:02:38

Episode 36 - The One Earth Message

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2017/09/03

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 his new crowdfunded project, the One Earth Message. Links: The One Earth Message Kickstarter The New Horizons Mission The Voyager Golden Record Lincos Credits: Host and co-producer: Daniela De Paulis Co-producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky, Erika Lloyd Announcer: Erin Carr

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18:33

Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian talks about the May 2017 dip

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2017/06/06

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, and what might happen in the near future. Links: /r/KIC8462852 The Subreddit FAQ Credits: Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: Jason Robinson

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12:58

Burst 22 - Tabby's Star is Dimming

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2017/05/19

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. Links: The Reddit Discussion Forum Jason Wright's Video Tabby's Star for the Perplexed Part 1 The Wow! Signal podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons/Attribution Share-Alike license.

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01:30:39

Episode 35 - There is Here

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2017/02/13

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 artist Daniela de Paulis. Nick Nielsen joins us for a discussion of Daniela's new project Cogito - how do we send our thoughts into the cosmos? Links: The Pioneer Plaques The Drake Arecibo Message The Voyager Golden Record METI.org Strategic Plan The Zoo Hypothesis Daniela de Paulis on the Unseen

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15:38

Burst 21 - The Absolute, Definitive Truth about Alien...

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2017/01/02

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 stellar class megastructures could we possibly observe out there. Please visit wowsignalpodcast.com for more information about this podcast. Links: Why Search? The Jaws of Darkness Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies GHAT III: The Reddest Extended Sources from WISE The Tully-Fisher relation as a probe of

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59:03

S3 Ep. 10 - Human Up

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2016/11/29

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. Following all the great demotions, humanity is about to get a great promotion - and we're not ready for it, but we have no choice. Credits: Host and Producer: Paul Carr Announcer: Erin Carr Music: DJ Spooky, Erika Lloyd, George Hrab

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22:27

Burst 20 - The Gaia Data Release 1 and the WTF Star

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2016/09/15

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 to talk about the implications of the Gaia Data Release 1 for a better understanding of KIC 8462852. Links: Gaia Parallax for KIC 8462852 is 2.554887 mas Jason Wright: What Could be Going on with Boyajian's Star? Part X: Wrap-up and Gaia's Promise Credits: Producer and Host: Paul Carr Music: Jason

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47:44

Season 3 Episode 9 - Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder

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2016/08/08

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 (KIC 8462852) dimmed considerably over the four year course of the Kepler Space Telescope prime mission. Links: Montet and Simon, KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission Interview with Bradley Schaefer on Dimming of Tabby's Star Boyajian, et. al., KIC 8462852 - Where's The Flux? Credits: Host

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24:12

Burst 19 - Lost Stars

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2016/08/01

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 University of Upsalla in Sweden, Ms. Villarroel's team was undertaking an alternative approach to SETI, looking for evidence of effects in astronomical data that could not be due to natural effects. Links: Our Sky Now and Then The USNO B1.0 Catalog The Sloan Digital Sky Survey The Lost Star (Vizier) The

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43:15

Season 3 Episode 8 - Nathaniel Comfort and the...

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2016/07/29

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 book project is the biography of DNA. Links: Mike Russell New Study Outlines "Water World" Theory of the Origin of Life Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Dr. Barbara McClintock Steven Benner Credits: Host: James Garrison Producer: Paul Carr Announcer: Erin Carr Music: DJ Spooky and Frank Dorritke

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20:42

Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations

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2016/07/04

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, intelligence, and exocivilizations we find ourselves in the position of seeking the spoor of these higher emergent complexities in the cosmological wilderness. Links: SETI as a Process of Elimiation (Wow! Signal Burst) SETI as a Process of Elimination (Medium post) The Eerie Silence: Renewing our

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41:20

S3 Episode 7 - Journey Into the World of Alien Hunting

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2016/06/23

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 the scientists profiled in the film, Douglas Vakoch. We urge you to consider contributing to the Kickstarter for this film. opening Paulina's intro introduction to the Earthling's Quest team: Alexander Ryneus and Per Bifrost (film co-directors), and Malla Grapengiesser (producer). Introduction of

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01:07:17

Season 3 Episode 6 - Not a Glimmer of an Idea

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2016/05/27

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), why some popular explanations fail, and what can be done to further explore the reason that this star's behavior is so behavior. In particular, Brad wants to encourage us to contribute to Tabetha Boyajian's kickstarter to buy telescope time to monitor the star. Links: The Fast and Slow Dimming of

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