This week in my conversation with Seth Shostak, we chat about SETI and their search for intelligent extraterrestrial life and trying to find evidence that there’s someone out there, other than us. I first heard Seth in his TED talk where he mad

S04E03 - Astrobiology with Professor Paul Davies

Nov 3rd, 2020 58m 12s

It was such a wonderful experience chatting with Professor Paul Davies, who is an incredible theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling science author of 31 books. He has published hundreds of research papers and review

S04E02 - UFO's + The Government with Robert Powell

Oct 18th, 2020 56m 10s

In this episode, I chat with Robert Powell who is both a UFOlogist and Chemist.I sought out to interview Robert after I found he was the co-author of the book UFOs and Government alongside a cast of international authors headed by Michael Swor

S04E01 - Making Contact with Dr Douglas Vakoch

Oct 4th, 2020 43m 34s

Season 4 is all about making contact with Aliens and how to do so effectively.This week I chat with Dr Douglas Vakoch, president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to t

S03EBonus - Quantum Computing with Dr Federico Carminati

Sep 20th, 2020 45m 28s

This week I chat with Dr Federico Carminati the chief innovation officer at CERN openlab. Dr Carminati is investigating potential applications of machine learning and quantum computing for high-energy physics.We talk about the increasing need

S03E05 - Brain Computer Interface Headsets with Casey Pfluger

Sep 6th, 2020 42m 22s

This week I have a conversation with Casey Pfluger, the founder of Cortex Brainwave Technologies who is building a brain-computer interface headset (BCI) for the treatment of ADHD and Autism. Casey has spent the past two decades as a medical re

S03E04 - AI & The Singularity with Dr Sofia Vallecorsa

Aug 23rd, 2020 26m 6s

This week I have a conversation with Dr Sofia Vallecorsa from CERN Open-Lab regarding AI and The Singularity.There are two sides of the camp on AI. The first is that AI and robots will take over the world and the second is that we are so far a

S03E03 - Invisibility Cloaking with Dr Jordi Prat Camps

Aug 9th, 2020 34m 43s

This week I have a conversation with Dr. Jordi Prat Camps on Invisibility Cloaking devices and the technologies, fabrics, and science being developed to make this once sci-fi idea a reality. Further Reading and Resources:This episode is bas

S03E02 - Dr Fiona Kerr on Cyborgs

Jul 26th, 2020 43m 48s

Dr Fiona Kerr discussing the ethical approach to cyborgs.

S03E01 - Robots & AI with Professor Tom Drummond

Jul 12th, 2020 34m 33s

This week I have a conversation with Professor Tom Drummond that is centred around the ethical dilemmas of Ai and robots governing the world, driving our cars and potentially participating in society alongside humans or even.... as humans.

S02E05 - Time Travel with Dr Paul. M Sutter

Jun 14th, 2020 30m 52s

This Week on Widdershins Podcast I chat about time travel with the hilarious host of YouTube's 'Ask A Spaceman' with over 30,000 subscribers. Dr. Sutter is an astrophysicist and is known for his commentary on time travel. In fact, it was Dr. Su

S02E04 - Parallel universes and Multiverses with Professor Yasunori Nomura

May 31st, 2020 27m 54s

This week in season 2 episode 4 we launch into parallel universes and multiverses. My conversation with Professor Yasunori Nomura was deep and I did not expect the reality that we are simply waiting on the technology to allow the science to flo

S02E02 - [Pt 2] Time travel and time loops with Dr Gaurav Khanna and Caroline Mallary

May 17th, 2020 33m 32s

In part 2 of our two-part series we are joined this week by Caroline Mallary a PhD student at the University of Massachusettes and our past guest Dr Gaurav Khanna from Episode 1 on Hyperspace. This episode is more focussed on time travel where

S02E02 - [Pt 1] Time travel and time loops with Dr Gaurav Khanna and Caroline Mallary

May 3rd, 2020 17m 53s

In part 1 of our two part series we are joined this week by Caroline Mallary a PhD student at the University of Massachusettes and our past guest Dr Gaurav Khanna from Episode 1 on Hyperspace. The theory of time travel and time loops we discuss

S02E01 - Portals with Dr Leah Broussard

Apr 19th, 2020 28m 57s

This week in season 2 episode 1 we launch into the Time Travel season with an episode on portals. I first learned of Dr Broussard when I came across an NBC article stating that Dr Broussard from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennesse

S01E05 - Space Stations with Dr Brad Tucker

Mar 15th, 2020 29m 53s

This week on our episode I discuss Space Stations with Dr Brad Tucker https://www.facebook.com/DrBradTucker an Astrophysicist/Cosmologist at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory and the National Centre for

S01E04 - Space Travel with Dr Seth Shostak

Mar 2nd, 2020 22m

This week on our episode I discuss Space Travel with Dr Seth Shostak #sethshostak. Seth Shostak is involved with the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life at the SETI Institute in California—trying to find evidence that there’s someone o

S01E03 - Wormholes with Dr Jordi Prat-Camps

Feb 16th, 2020 28m 12s

This week I discuss Wormholes with Dr Jordi Prat-Camps https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-prat-camps-a9bba177/ a physicist from Barcelona with a background in electromagnetism, superconductivity, and metamaterials, with a very applied vision.Fur

S01E02 - Exoplanets with Dr Cassandra Hall

Feb 2nd, 2020 31m 25s

This week on our episode I discuss Exoplanets with Dr Cassandra Hall Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40cassidentprone&src=typd a Winton Exoplanet Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK. Dr Hall works in the Theoretical Astrophysics Gr

PROMO - Next week on Widdershins Podcast [ EXOPLANETS]

Jan 29th, 2020

Coming next week we interview Dr Cassandra Hall on Exoplanets. The book who's theme we investigated was Dying of the Light - By George R.R Martin https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1Subscribe to be the first to hear when the epi

S01E01 - Hyperspace with Dr Gaurav Khanna

Jan 19th, 2020 30m 40s

This week on our debut episode I discuss Hyperspace with Dr Gaurav Khanna www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-khanna a Professor in the Physics Department, and the Associate Director of the Center for Scientific Computing at the University of Massachuse

S1BonusE2 - Future Weapons with Skeeve Stevens

Jan 19th, 2020 36m 16s

This week on our Bonus episode I discuss Future Weapons with Skeeve Stevens www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve/?originalSubdomain=au. Skeeve was the first Australian to be imprisoned for hacking. He is a Futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, technol

S1BonusE1 - Space Law with Professor Steven Freeland

Jan 19th, 2020 37m 56s

This week on our first ever Bonus episode I discuss Space Law with Professor Steven Freeland.Steven Freeland https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-freeland-52081b124/ is a Professor of International Law at the University of Western Sydney, Visitin

Sneak Peak - Season 1 PROMO 1

Jan 17th, 2020 2m 30s

As part of our launch we are dropping 3 episodes on January 20th, 2020. Here is a sneak peak into our Episode with Steven Freeland on Space Law.

Widdershins Podcast - Coming soon | Trailer #1

Aug 1st, 2019 59s

From the minds of the world's greatest scientific experts, comes the truth hidden within the pages of science fiction.In a NEW Sci-Fi Podcast we present WIDDERSHINS.We take the science fiction themes you know and love and put them under the mic