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The Wow! Signal Podcast

The Wow! Signal Podcast

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 The Wow! Signal Podcast is the voice is 21st Century's search for the question to the answer of Life, the Universe and Everything. The podcast is a heady mix of interviews with bleeding edge thinkers, writers, and investigators.Spoken content is released under Creative Commons attribution/share-alike Nature et écologie Science
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  • A short message of farewell

    A short message of farewell
    Sep 9 2026
    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 50s. Although we have been on a very long hiatus since Episode 50, I had the intention that when I retired I would either bring the podcast out of hiatus or permanently end it. As I got closer to that time, I understood that I only wanted to restart the podcast if I could put a fair bit of time and energy into it and put out frequent, quality content. Like the previous episodes, the new ones would be commercial free, audio only, go as deep as we could on our core topics, and would sometimes refer to Douglas Adams. Now that I am retired, and things are much more real, I have decided that I am not going to do this. I won't revisit all my thinking about this, but part of it is that similar content is now widely available on multiple platforms, often accompanied by skillfully produced video. David Kipping's Cool Worlds is a good example. So, while I am not necessarily exiting podcasting forever, I am going to meet the commitment that I made to myself not to fade the Wow! Signal without notice, but to unambiguously announce the end of the podcast while expressing my deep gratitude to everyone who participated and who made the content much, much better than I could have made it by myself. I'm proud of our 50 Episodes and 34 Bursts - shorter, more focused episodes - and even the pubs I hosted and enjoyed immensely. The podcast rss feed and the wowsignalpodcast.com domain will remain up for some time to come, but if you want to listen to any past episodes, I suggest you go to wowsignalpodcast.com and download the .mp3 files that interest you to listen to them at your convenience. I will have many of the episodes available on YouTube as well. If there is an episode you would really like a transcript of, I can probably supply one - just get in touch and I'll see what I can do. I'm going to thank everyone I can think of, and I apologize in advance if I left anyone out. I'll start with the folks who actually helped me create the podcast, and often had the idea for an episode or burst: Daniela DePaulis, Nick Nielsen, James Garrison, and Mike Mongo. I'm sorry I've been out of touch and hope we can meet up someday. Now, my many great guests. I'll list their names now. Some of them appeared more than once. There were people I never had on that I regret missing, and if you think I should have emailed you with an appearance request, you may well be right. Our first guest was Antonio Paris, founder of Aerial Phenomena Investigations. This was followed by: Geoffrey Landis (twice) Nikola Danaylov David Grinspoon (3 times) Seth Shostak Bing Garthright Duncan Forgan (twice), Isaac Stott, Ben Wright McGee Fraser Cain Paul Shuch Geoff Marcy + Ana Heras Daniel Cartin Nicholas Joll Heath Rezabek, Robin Hanson Steven Dick, Betul Kacar Duncan Lunan , Alan Penny Abel Mendez (twice) Bob Dixon JL Galache + Duncan Lunan Tom Barbalet Andrew Siemion Martin Elvis Bradley Schaefer Tabetha Boyajian Stella Kafka Bradley Schaefer Douglas Vakoch (twice) Nathaniel Comfort Ben Montet Doug Vakoch Jon Lomborg Frank White Sofia Sheikh Daniel Oberhaus Beatriz Villarroel Julia Demarines Adam Dipert Stella Kafka Paolo Costaño Wade Roush David Skogerboe Chelsea Haramia Thomas Moynihan In addition, the following people were guests on Bursts: Mike Mongo Nora Noffke Daniel Cartin Jeff Nosanov Josh Grindlay Jason Hessels Beatriz Villarroel (twice) Tabetha Boyajian (twice) David Blank Also, thanks to our Patreon donors and our Wow! Signal Pub participants, and Erin Carr and Joyce Abma for voiceover help. Finally, thanks to all the musicians who let me use their music: Ahleuchatistas, Mike Griffin, DJ Spooky, Jason Robinson, Erika Lloyd, Sleep Research Facility, House Band of the Universe, George Hrab, Eben Brooks, and many others. Well, everything ends sooner or later, and this podcast is ending now. It ran for 12 years, we had a good run, and I am happy I did it. I hope I'll run into you in real life, or on other platforms or in other projects. I have largely curtailed my social media presence in recent years, but you can still find me on Bluesky. Hey, we may even do another pub someday. See you there?
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    7 min
  • Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez

    Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez
    Sep 12 2024

    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 hydrogen clouds and a proposed natural explanation for the Big Ear Wow! Signal that we covered in depth in Episode 19.

    We recommend you download the draft paper so you can follow along.

    Links:

    Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal

    Our episode (#19) with Big Ear scientist Bob Dixon

    A previous appearance by Abel Mendez on this podcast.

    Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico

    The Arecibo Radio Telescope Collapse

    The FAST Radio Telescope

    Astrophysical MASERs (microwave lasers)

    Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Masers

    Population Inversion (Wikipedia)

    The Hydrogen 21 cm line

    MASERs, Interstellar and Circumstellar, Theory.

    Credits

    Host, editor, producer: Paul Carr

    Music: Quincas Moreira (Black Swan), George Hrab (Far), Jason Robinson

    Episode 50 of the Wow! Signal Podcast by Paul Carr is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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    1 h et 7 min
  • Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients

    Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients
    Jul 14 2021

    Interview recorded: 11 July 2021

    Released: 16 July 2021

    Duration: 21 minutes, 33 seconds

    Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Reports, "Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950."

    Links:

    Villarroel+ , Exploring Nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950.

    Burst 19: Our Sky Now and Then (August 2016)

    Episode 41: The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel (November 2019)

    The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project: I. USNO objects missing in modern sky surveys and follow-up observations of a "missing star

    The Palomar Digital Sky Survey

    Gran Telescopio Canarias

    The United States Nuclear Testing Program

    Credits

    Host and Producer: Paul Carr

    Music: Ahleuchatistas and Erika Lloyd
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    22 min
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