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Unseen Pub #3 Live - YouTube →
Paul Carr identifies the Unseen Podcast as a spinoff of the Wow! Signal Podcast, and The Unseen Pub is, in turn, a spinoff of The Unseen Podcast. I participated in this third installment of The Unseen Pub, which is exclusively set up as a Youtube presentation, and so is not technically a podcast. I think that this is the largest online discussion in which I have participated in terms of numbers of participants, and perhaps also in terms of overall length of the discussion, though I only came into it on the half hour mark.
We ended up talking quite a bit (often at cross purposes) about scientific method and issues related to the philosophy of science, in the course of the conversation touching upon Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts, MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), Mike McCulloch’s Quantized Interia theory (Physics from the edge), Dean Calahan’s paper “Weeds in the algae garden – A source of biomass for the algae-to-biofuels program,” which latter led me to mention the work on algae by Nathan Morrison and Sustainable Now Technologies, Inc. Also mentioned was Row Hammer and Creating Scientific Concepts by Nancy J. Nersessian, before ending (more or less) with a great quote from Patrick Festa: “The beauty of the scientific method is the anticipation of a better explanation.”
