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Black Swans & The "Wow" Signal

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/x8l230rIoRs - thank you to our sponsors! New research! One-offs... there's something about them, whether it be the first interstellar asteroid or a star behaving in an unprecedented way. These "black swans" capture our attention and imagination but interpreting them is challenged by the inherent scarcity of data. Perhaps no case encapsulates this more than the famous 1977 Wow Signal. Join us today as we discuss our new paper on Black Swan Theory with consequences for the Wow signal. You can support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: https://www.coolworldslab.com/support Get Stash here! https://teespring.com/stores/cool-worlds-store Thank-you to our supporters T. Widdowson, D. Smith, M. Sloan, L. Sanborn, C. Bottaccini, D. Daughaday, A. Jones, S. Brownlee, M. Lijoi, Z. Star, T. Zanjonc, C. Wolfred, F. Rebolledo, L. Skov, E. Wilson, M. Elliot, B. Daniluk, J. Patrick-Saunders, M. Forbes, S. Vystoropskyi, S. Lee, Z. Danielson, C. Fitzgerald, V. Alexandrov, L. Macchia, C. Souter, M. Gillette, T. Jeffcoat, H. Jensen, F. Linker, J. Rockett, N. Fredrickson, B. Mlazgar, D. Holland, J. Alexander, E. Hanway, A. Rao, E. Crump & J. Bergman. Correction at 10:19 - the hydrogen line is 1420 MHz not kHz ::Links:: ► Kipping, D. (2021), "Black Swans in Astronomical Data", MNRAS, in press: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07693 ► Harp, G., Gray, R., et al., (2020), "An ATA Search for a Repetition of the Wow Signal", AJ, 160, 162: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aba58f ► Event Horizon interview with Dr Jerry Ehman: https://youtu.be/x67K-Vq1KWk ► Our previous video about BLC-1: https://youtu.be/lU7h-Mgzk7c ► Breakthrough Listen live-stream about BLC-1: https://youtu.be/qpewt9qEYXw ::Music:: Music licensed by SoundStripe.com (SS) [shorturl.at/ptBHI], or via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), or with permi

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