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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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Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian talks about the May 2017 dip

Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian talks about the May 2017 dip

Released: 5 June 2017 Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds Paul Carr talks with Tabetha Boyajian about the flurry of observ... Read more

6 Jun 2017

18mins

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Episode 19 - Actually, Wow!

Episode 19 - Actually, Wow!

This podcast is named after an event that took place on 15 August 1977 at the Ohio State Big Ear radio astronomy observa... Read more

18 Nov 2014

47mins

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Episode 42 - Moon bouncing with Julia DeMarines

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 DeMa... Read more

11 Dec 2019

48mins

Ranked #4

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

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 estim... Read more

26 Apr 2018

10mins

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Burst 25 - The Elsie Paper

Burst 25 - The Elsie Paper

Released: 3 January 2018 Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds Host Paul Carr goes over the new paper by Tabetha Boyajian a... Read more

3 Jan 2018

15mins

Ranked #6

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Burst 26 - The Cosmic Archipelago, Part 1.

Burst 26 - The Cosmic Archipelago, Part 1.

Released: 21 January 2018 Duration: 19 minutes A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the natu... Read more

21 Jan 2018

19mins

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Episode 6 - Conversation with an Alien Hunter

Episode 6 - Conversation with an Alien Hunter

We talk to Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute about the past, present and future of the Searchfor Extraterrestrial Intel... Read more

9 Apr 2013

1hr 1min

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Episode 5 - Superior Galactic Communities

Episode 5 - Superior Galactic Communities

The Search for Bracewell Probes, Part 1. An introduction to the Search for Bracewell Probes, with a liberal sprinkling o... Read more

7 Mar 2013

47mins

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Episode 38 - The Overview Effect

Episode 38 - The Overview Effect

Released: 31 December 2017 Duration: 65 minutes, 20 seconds Daniela DePaulis and Nick Nielsen in conversation with Frank... Read more

17 Dec 2017

1hr 5mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 8 - Cosmik Debris

Episode 8 - Cosmik Debris

Release Date: 25 June 2013 The subject is asteroid mining by humans and others. Guests: Duncan Forgan, scientist at the ... Read more

26 Jun 2013

52mins

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Burst 4 - Upper Limits

Burst 4 - Upper Limits

Released 17 February 2015 Paul Carr talks to Daniel Cartin about his test paper "Upper Limits on the probability of inte... Read more

17 Feb 2015

11mins

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Episode 41 - The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel

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, retur... Read more

15 Nov 2019

42mins

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Burst 31 Beyond the SETI Paradigm

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 t... Read more

5 Feb 2019

16mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 24 - SETI at the SKA

Episode 24 - SETI at the SKA

Thread(s): SETI Host: Paul Carr We talk to UC Berkeley’s Andrew P.V Simeon, lead author of a recent paper on ... Read more

8 Mar 2015

52mins

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Episode 13 - The Great Voids

Episode 13 - The Great Voids

We talk to Dr. Daniel Cartin about his recent follow up to Geoffrey Landis' percolation framework for understanding the ... Read more

18 May 2014

51mins

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Episode 40 - Extraterrestrial Languages

Episode 40 - Extraterrestrial Languages

Released: 16 October 2019 Duration: 54 minutes, 51 seconds Interstellar Languages is a forthcoming book about the huma... Read more

16 Oct 2019

54mins

Ranked #17

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Episode 15 - Oblique Strategies

Episode 15 - Oblique Strategies

Host Mike Mongo talks to futurist librarian Heath Rezabek about preserving humanity's knowledge into the far future. Pau... Read more

24 Jun 2014

1hr 21mins

Ranked #18

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Burst 5 - What about these FRBs?

Burst 5 - What about these FRBs?

Releast Date: 8 April 2015 A recent paper, Discrete Steps in Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts, has generated a l... Read more

9 Apr 2015

9mins

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Episode 7 - My Dinner With Garthright

Episode 7 - My Dinner With Garthright

On May 11th 2013 I sat down with skeptic Bing Garthright to talk about his impressions of UFOCon 13.  This led to some i... Read more

23 May 2013

1hr 23mins

Ranked #20

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Burst 6 - The Caves of the Moon

Burst 6 - The Caves of the Moon

Release Date: 12 July 2015 Duration: 19 minutes, 58 seconds Mike Mongo has a brief conversation with Jeff Nosanov abou... Read more

12 Jul 2015

19mins

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