The Wow! Signal Podcast

A short message of farewell

This is the last recording I will make for this podcast. It is time to finally move on. I began this podcast with Episode 1 near the end of 2012 when I was in my mid 50

Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez

We welcome back Professor Abel Mendez from the University of Puerto Rico to tell us about recent research into data from the Arecibo radio telescope focused on cold hydro

Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients

Interview recorded: 11 July 2021 Released: 16 July 2021 Duration: 21 minutes, 33 seconds Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Re

Episode 49 - Existential Risk

Released: 4 February 2021 Duration: 58 minutes 44 seconds Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis are joined by author Thomas Moynihan. The subject is the idea of hu

Episode 48 - Chelsea Haramia on the Ethics of METI

Released: 28 November 2020 Duration: 70 minutes, 39 seconds Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis engage philosopher Chelsea Haramia on the ethics of sending signa

Episode 47 - Arthur C. Clarke, Godfather of Satellites

Released: 7 November 2020 Duration: 57 minutes, 36 seconds   Co hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis welcome space historian David Skogerboe to talk about the pro-

Episode 46 - Extraterrestrials

Released: 6 April 2020 Duration: 53 minutes, 55 seconds   Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, Extraterrestrials. The bo

Episode 45 - Among the Space People with Paola Castaño

Released: 31 March 2020 Duration: 54 minutes, 8 seconds   Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis welcome Dr. Paola Castaño to talk about her research among the sci

Burst 33 - Astronomer David Blank Comments on Episode 41

Released: 20 March 2020 Duration: 31 minutes, 42 seconds   Astronomer David Blank responded to our invitation to comment on the Villarroel+ paper we covered in Epis

Episode 44 - The Night Watch

Released: 22 January 2020 Live recording: 20 January 2020 Duration:  66 minutes 45 seconds Thread: Astronomy and Astrophysics   Host Paul Carr along with Daniel

Episode 43 - Adam Dipert Moves in Zero G

Released:  Duration: 55 minutes, 36 seconds   Adam Dipert is a veteran circus performer and dancer who recently received his PhD in physics from Arizona State Unive

Episode 42 - Moon bouncing with Julia DeMarines

Released: 11 December 2019 Duration: 48 minutes, 30 seconds   Co-hosts Daniela DePaulis and Paul Carr welcome Julia DeMarines (@LifeNSpace) to talk about bouncing r

Episode 41 - The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel

Released: 15 November 2019 Duration: 42 minutes, 24 seconds Our guest on Burst 19 in 2016, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, returns to give us an update on the vanishing star,

Episode 40 - Extraterrestrial Languages

Released: 16 October 2019 Duration: 54 minutes, 51 seconds   Interstellar Languages is a forthcoming book about the human quest to craft messages that can be unders

Episode 39 - Sofia Sheik and The Nine Axes

Released: 29 September 2019 Duration: 49 minutes, 52 seconds Download Sofia's paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02683 A conversation with SETI researcher Sofia

Burst 32 - Become a Boyajian's Star Scientist in Your Spare Time

Released: 18 February 2019 Duration: 6 minutes, 48 seconds   Paul Carr summarizes why we want to know more about this star, and how you can get involved. Links: P

Burst 31 Beyond the SETI Paradigm

Released: 10 February 2019 Duration: 16 Minutes, 51 Seconds   Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy kicked up a kerfuffle when they wrote a paper suggesting that one possib

Unseen Podcast announcement

A not quite so short announcement from the producer of the Unseen Podcast and the Wow! Signal. This is for those who have not seen the video.   Unseen Podcast Episode

Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star

Released: 24 April 2018 Duration: 10 minutes, 1 second   Paul Carr talks about today's much more accurate distance estimate to Boyajian's Star from Gaia Data Releas

Burst 29 - Caral Supe and Evangeline

Released: 23 April 2018 Duration:12 minutes, 21 seconds   Paul Carr reviews what has been happening over the Winter and early Spring with respect to Boyajian's Star