Unseen Podcast

11/09/2018

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists David Grigg, Nick Nielsen, and Patrick Festa. The cosmic Lyft driver has pulled up to the curb. Where to next? Moon or Mars, and why? Why anything other than birth, copulation, and death? We get to decide.

Recorded: 27 July 2018 Released: 29 July 2018 Duration: 72 minutes, 2 seconds Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists David Grigg, Nick Niels...

20/07/2018

Andrew Boyter is a writer and podcaster who lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina. He studied Public Administration but now he mostly writes fiction and podcasts sports, consumer tech, and geek culture. You can find everything he does at machinecompatible.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/daboyter.

Andrew is a writer and podcaster who lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina. He studied Public Administration but now he mostly ...

18/07/2018

Unseen Pub #9 took place on June, 15th and included: Mike Mongo, Nick Nielsen, Mike Bohler, Patrick Festa and Paul Carr.

With Mike Mongo, Nick Nielsen, Mike Bohler, Patrick Festa, and Paul Carr

17/07/2018

Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Sam Lichtenstein, Patrick Festa, and Nick Nielsen to talk about the evolution and extinction of human languages.

Recorded: 25 May 2018 Released: 26 May 2018 Duration: 74 minutes, 17 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Host Paul Carr is joined...

12/07/2018

Mike Mongo is Chief Culture Officer for Icarus Interstellar. He is a noted space educator, space blogger, the co-founder of Computers for Jamaica, and the author of Mike Mongo‘s Astronaut Instruction Manual for Pre-Teens. He has been an active educational proponent of STEAM—science technology engineering arts mathematics—as well as a dedicated proponent of astronautics-as-a-career for students in the US and abroad. As a public speaker and space educator, Mike works to encourage primary, middle-school and high school students to pursue careers in astronautics and space-related fields. Mr. Mongo’s professional background has been in brands and messaging. One of of the co-founders of OBEY, Mr Mongo worked alongside Shepard Fairey (along with Alfred Hawkins and Blais Blouin) for over a decade to engineer the OBEY organization messaging campaign. Mr Mongo is owner/partner of Miami-based web development firm Wodu Media. Mr Mongo was a Presenting Author at 2012's 100 Year Starship, 2013 Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop - TVIW and 2013's Starship Congress, where he served as Starship Congress' Chief Creative Designer. Most recently, Mr Mongo is co-developing Icarus Interstellar’s FarMaker program with Dr Andreas Tziolas and videogame professional Luke Blaize. Mike Mongo lives with his wife Leonie in Key West, FL.

Mike Mongo is Chief Culture Officer for Icarus Interstellar. He is a noted space educator, space blogger, the co-founder of Computers for ...

06/07/2018

Host Paul Carr was joined by panelists Nick Nielsen and Sam Lichtenstein to talk about - well, just listen (or browse the links)...

Recorded: 20 April 2018 Released: 21 April 2018 Duration: 88 minutes, 9 seconds download the .mp3 audio file The handoff Homie Nale...

03/07/2018

Unseen Pub #8 took place on 16th of March, 2018. Participants: Paul Carr, Nick Nielsen, Patrick Festa, Mike Bohler, Sam Lichtenstein.

Unseen Pub #8. No agenda, no host, no editing. Sobriety not required. Want an invite? Just ask.

29/06/2018

David Grigg is a retired software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He worked in the field of interactive multimedia for over two decades, and has also worked in public relations and as a journalist and sub-editor.

During the 1970s and 1980s, David was deeply involved in the science fiction fan community, publishing fanzines and helping organize SF conventions, eventually becoming Chairman of the 43rd World SF Convention held in Melbourne in 1985.

In recent years he has returned to his old love of writing fiction. He is the author of a number of professionally published short stories and two short fantasy novels for teens. Collections of his stories are available for purchase on his website at:

http://rightword.com.au/books

He also runs a website called The Narratorium, which publishes free short fiction.

First appearance: Episode 7 David Grigg is a retired software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He worked in the field of int...

27/06/2018

If you're on Stitcher, feel free to check Paul Carr's other podcast "The WoW! Signal Podcast".
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-wow-signal-podcast

26/06/2018

In Episode 89, host Paul Carr welcomed panelists Gita Jaisinghani, Sam Lichtenstein, Nick Nielsen and Adam Smith to take about a selection of Existential Risks.

Topics include: nanotechnology, pandemics, AI, and Climate Change. As usual, we let the discussion wander where it will go.

Recorded: 6 April 2018 Released: 7 April 2018 Duration: 91 minutes, 56 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Host Paul Carr welomes pa...

25/06/2018

Mike Bohler is the creator of “A Skeptics Guide to Conspiracy” podcast and a member of the “Irreverent Skeptics” podcast.

Mike is a Senior Electrical Designer working primarily on power distribution systems for the Petrochemical industries. He has also worked in industries like Food and Dairy, Pharmaceutical, Waste treatment and Machine tool.
Mike has a number of interests and hobbies. His current interest is in historical events behind the numerous conspiracy “theories” that have gained popularity over the past few decades.

His other interests includes amateur astronomy, DIY solar energy and Microcontrollers (Arduino & Raspberry PI)

Mike Bohler is the creator of “A Skeptics Guide to Conspiracy” podcast and a member of the Mike bohler “Irreverent Skeptics” podcast. ...

22/06/2018

Host Paul Carr welcomes special guest Chad Davies of the The Scientific Odyssey podcast, and panelists Sam Lichtenstein and Patrick Festa, to talk about the history and philosophy of science.

Recorded: 16 February 2018 Released: 17 February 2018 Duration: 85 minutes, 8 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Host Paul Carr...

09/05/2018

Ciro Villa is an experienced technologist and an application developer and has worked for a number of industries. Since he was a child he has always been interested in Science and Technology, in particular Space Exploration, Astronomy and Cosmology. He is very active on the Google Plus social media platform where he has been doing space and science news sharing and outreach since 2011. He is also a moderator of the Space community on Google Plus owned by renowned producer of Universe Today Fraser Cain. The community is one of largest and most popular on that social media platform. He created graphic montages of celestial object hovering on Earth featured on Universe Today. He is also an active member of the Planetary Society and toured NASA facilities with Bill Nye and his entourage. He has attended various Nasa Social events, including a Space Shuttle launch, a couple of SpaceX launches and the Orion test flight. His direct link to his Google Plus profile is CiroVilla.com

First appearance: Episode 1 Ciro Villa is an experienced technologist and an application developer and has worked for a number of indust...

06/05/2018

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”.

Recorded: 26 January 2018 Released: 27 January 2018 Duration: 104 minutes 39 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Host Paul Carr is ...

01/05/2018

Host Paul Carr is joined by new panelist Jon Eckberg, and regulars Nick Nielsen, John C. 'Buck' Field, Mike Bohler and Patrick Festa to talk about how the discovery of the interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua affects the terms in the Drake Equation, if at all. As is typical for us, the discussion ranges wide, once again confirming the Drake Equation's role as an excellent mental lens.

Recorded: 19 January 2018 Released: 20 January 2018 Duration:126 minutes, 28 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Frank Drake and ...

22/04/2018

Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Adam Smith, Nick Nielsen, Patrick Festa and John C. 'Buck' Field to talk about the human return to the moon. It seems to boil down to: yes, but who's going to pay for it? Maybe the Chinese? Maybe American or Asian billionaires? Somehow this drifts into discussion of flat Earthers and joke cults.

Recorded: 5 January 2018 Released: 6 January 2018 Duration: 97 minutes, 44 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Erratum : the 2017 F...

26/02/2018

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25/02/2018

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Nick Nielsen, Sam Lichtenstein, and Patrick Festa to talk about the possible consequences of Active SETI, or METI. Of course, the discussion veers off into religion and just how tasty man flesh is.

Recorded: 8 December 2017 Released: 9 December 2017 Duration: 97 minutes, 32 seconds download the .mp3 audio file GJ 273B in Aladi...

24/02/2018

We had Unseen Pub #7 on the 17th of November 2017. Participants were Marsha Barnhart, Patrick Festa, Nick Nielsen, and Paul Carr. As usual, the topics ranged widely. Or wildly.

This is Unseen Pub #7, a spinoff of the Unseen Podcast. No agenda, no host, no show notes, no music, just vigorous and semi-sober discussion about whatever c...

19/11/2017

Chris McGinlay is a secondary school teacher in the UK, variously teaching physics, mathematics, computing and robotics at junior high school level for around twenty years.

In his spare time he enjoys software development, particularly with Python and Django, using automated deployment and test-driven development in the ongoing production of www.eduduck.com.

He also enjoys dabbling with the Arduino microcontroller, is a long-time user of GNU/Linux (Gentoo, Ubuntu) and recently survived his first ever one-hour long game of squash (with only minor injuries sustained).

For a complete change of scenery, Chris will spend a good deal of his spare time boating, fishing and visiting small islands in his restored Shetland Model fourareen.

Please visit his GitHub page for a more information:https://chrismcginlay.github.io or visit his active Google+ page https://plus.google.com/+ChrisMcGinlay

First appearance: Episode 3 Chris McGinlay is a secondary school teacher in the UK, variously teaching physics, mathematics, computing a...

18/11/2017

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists (King) James Garrison, Nick Nielsen (Benevolent Dictator of the Planet Entire), and (King of the Universe) Patrick Festa for a wide ranging conversation about education. Some of those Lego jokes fall a bit flat...
What would you do about education if you were Benevolent Dictator? Or Andrew Carnegie?

Recorded: 10 November 2017 Released: 11 November 2017 Duration: 92 minutes, 12 seconds download the .mp3 audio file One of Caleb Ca...

09/11/2017

You can watch the recording of tomorrow’s episode live at the link below. Feel free to ask questions in the comments section. You can also tweet using hashtag .

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30/10/2017

Host Paul Carr is joined by James Garrison, Nick Nielsen, and Mike Bohler to talk about local urban legends and the forces driving. Stories like Chicago's Resurrection Mary have been told all around the world for centuries. Also, portals keep popping up in modern narratives, and perhaps have also been with us for a long time.

Our conversation ranges from the Purple Church, to Crop Circles, to the Nazca Lines, to the Anasazi to Scotland's Ring of Brodgar, to Skinwalker Ranch, and much more.

Recorded: 27 October 2017 Released: 29 October 2017 Duration: 77 minutes 16 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Host Paul Carr is j...

11/10/2017

Host Paul Carr welcomes Jake Robins of the WeMartians Podcast, along with panelists Sam Lichtenstein, Adam Smith and Nick Nielsen to talk about the current and future state of the human advance upon the fourth stone from the sun.

Recorded: 6 October 2017 Released: 10 October 2017 Duration: 80 minutes 12 seconds download the .mp3 audio file NASA budget as pe...

09/10/2017

In episode 11 host Paul Carr was joined by TJ Mulich, Ciro Villa, James Garrison, Patrick Festa, Mike Bohler and Nick Nielsen. We wanted to talk about conspiracy theories surrounding NASA, and this branched out into discussing conspiracy theories in general. We also discussed the relative merits of some of the up and coming science communicators.

Erratum: It's not "Grovers Corners" but "Grovers Mills".

Recorded: 19 June 2015 The Face on Mars as seen by Viking Released: 20 June 2015 Duration: 94 minutes, 22 seconds download the .mp...

23/09/2017

Host Paul Carr welcomes Adam Smith and Sam Lichtenstein to talk about Przybylski’s Star, or HD 101065, possibly the weirdest star in astrophysics - even weirder than Boyajian's Star, maybe.

Recorded: 15 September 2017 Released: 16 September 2017 Duration: 81 minutes, 31 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Przybylski's...

22/09/2017

John C. 'Buck' Field, (MBA, PMP) is sometimes called "The Smartest Guy in the Room." At age 12, he began university undergraduate computer science studies, and by 15 was writing commercial software for the oil and gas industry. The results gained the attention of IBM, where he applied Mandelbrot's ground-breaking fractal math to create predictive network load models, invented the company's first object-oriented service architecture, and led several business transformations.

Buck served as an Assistant Vice-President for FirstPlus, designed the world's most successful online financial system from scratch at Citigroup, advised the U.S. Department of Energy on strategic alignment for its high-energy physics program, provided risk assessments for NASA, and conducted research for the National Science Foundation and its Board on the Transformative Research Initiative.

In the early 2000's, Field began lecturing in North America, Europe, and Asia on science research administration. He created the first certification program to win approval by the Chinese Ministry of Education for teaching Project Management Institute's ANSI and ISO standards.

Field currently works at the intersection of information research and best-practices of management and leadership. He says: "My projects create systems which deliver information capability currently considered unachievable. It appears there exist reliable methods from some discipline able guide us to answers for any questions we can formulate clearly." Buck works actively in standards & training development from Aspen Colorado and Chilean Patagonia. He produces the Starship Vlog, exploring future R&D from a project management perspective.

First appearance: Episode 3.

First appearance: Episode 3 John C. 'Buck' Field, (MBA, PMP) is sometimes called "The Smartest Guy in the Room." At age 12, he began uni...

21/09/2017

In episode 10 host Paul Carr was joined by panelists Andrew Boyter, Patrick Festa, James Garrison and David Grigg to talk about the human exploration of Jupiter's Moon Europa and what that means to us.

Recorded: 12 June 2015 Jupiter's moon Europa Released: 13 June 2015 Duration: 76 minutes, 20 seconds download the .mp3 audio file ...

20/09/2017

In episode 9 host Paul Carr was joined by James Garrison and Michael Cornett, to talk about about bad psychology, bad dentistry, bad medicine, and bad jokes.

We're going to need to institute a new rule of one rant per panelist per episode.

Recorded: 5 June 2015 antipolygraph.org Released: 6 June 2015 Duration: 78 minutes, 43 Seconds download the .mp3 audio file Ho...

06/08/2017

Our YouTube series, the Unseen Pubs, got its 6th addition just now. It's all about the tangents. Participating were Nick Nielsen, Patrick Festa, Mike Bohler, Dean Calahan, and Paul Carr.

Our YouTube series, the Unseen Pubs, got its 6th addition just now. It's all about the tangents. Participating were Nick Nielsen, Patrick F...

04/08/2017

In episode 8 host Paul Carr was joined by Mike Bohler, James Garrison, David Grigg, and Nick Nielsen in a sprawling conversation about how the human species is exploring the universe around it and where we should go next.

Recorded: 22 May2015 The Dawn Probe Released: 23 May 2015 download the .mp3 audio file Duration: 83 minutes, 14 seconds Host Pa...

25/07/2017

In episode 7, host Paul Carr welcomed Science Fiction writer David Grigg, astronaut teacher Mike Mongo, and
Oklahoma Skeptic James Garrison to a stretched out, relaxed conversation about the Fermi paradox, asteroid defense, gene editing and related topics.

Recorded: 15 May 2015 Released: 16 May 2015 Duration: 74 minutes, 30 seconds download the .mp3 audio file David Grigg Host Paul...

19/07/2017

Ciro Villa is an experienced technologist and an application developer and has worked for a number of industries. Since he was a child he has always been interested in Science and Technology,in particular Space Exploration, Astronomy and Cosmology. He is very active on the Google Plus social media platform where he has been doing space and science news sharing and outreach since 2011. He is also a moderator of the Space community on Google Plus owned by renowned producer of Universe Today Fraser Cain. The community is one of largest and most popular on that social media platform. He created graphic montages of celestial object hovering on Earth featured on Universe Today. He is also an active member of the Planetary Society and toured NASA facilities with Bill Nye and his entourage. He has attended various Nasa Social events, including a Space Shuttle launch, a couple of SpaceX launches and the Orion test flight last year. His direct link to his Google Plus profile is CiroVilla.com

First appearance: Episode 1 Ciro Villa is an experienced technologist and an application developer and has worked for a number of indust...

13/07/2017

In episode 6 host Paul Carr was joined by panelists Mike Bohler, John C. 'Buck' Field and Patrick Festa to talk about the possibility of physics breakthroughs that could lead to faster than light travel.

Recorded: 8 May 2015 No. Released: 9 May 2015 Duration: 94 minutes, 58 seconds download the .mp3 audio file Host Paul Carr is j...

09/07/2017

In episode 5 host Paul Carr welcomed panelists James Garrison, Ciro Villa, and Nick Nielsen. First, we talked about the findings of the GHAT team from their mining of the WISE survey, looking for galaxies with anomalously high mid infrared emission, indicating that most of the free energy in the galaxy was being harvested. This has been in the press a lot, and easily misinterpreted. What is a Kardashev level III civilization, and how would we know it?

We also discussed the optimistic declaration by NASA Chief scientist Ellen Stofan about the search for microbial life in the solar system, and this leads us to several other topics, including robot farming and how hard revolutions can be.

Recorded: 1 May 2015 Released: 2 May 2015 Duration: 84 minutes, 20 seconds download the .mp3 audio file NASA's Ellen Stofan H...