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Thomas Friedman gave a nice talk about this issue on Science Friday a little while back : http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Jun/hour2_ 062405.html I think the podcast is still available.

Don't forget about Science Friday and NPR: All Songs Considered.

There is also Car Talk which is not free.

I am an NPR junkie. I have a one-hour commute every day. I no longer listen to the radio and just to the shows I downloaded from NPR on my non-Apple MP3 player. My routine is this:

1. Once a week, I go through the npr.org and scpr.org (Southern California Public Radio -- my local NPR station) and download the .smil or .ram files for the specific shows I want to listen to. I skip the ones where I can get as podcasts already, such as Science Friday, since I can already download them as MP3 files. This takes about an hour a week.

2. I run a script that downloads and converts the .smil and .ram streams into .mp3 files. This gives me enough listening material for about a week. I run this script overnight, since it can take a while.

3. When I've exhausted the current audios on my MP3 player, I copy the new shows over.

I do contribute to KPCC, my local NPR station, so I do not feel like I'm "stealing" the shows. Below is the script I use. It requires mplayer (with Real codec), sox, and lame. If you use this script, I kindly ask that you contribute to your local NPR station as well.

#!/bin/sh

export SOX=sox

for i in $*
do
echo $i
filename=`echo $i | sed 's/\.ram//'`
filename=`echo $filename | sed 's/\.smil//'`

# download real stream and save as WAV file
mplayer -playlist $i -ao pcm:file=$filename.wav -vc dummy -vo null

# extract the largest volume adjustment without clipping
VOLUME_ADJUST=`$SOX "$filename.wav" -t .wav "$filename.tmp.wav" stat -v 2>&1`
echo "VOLUME ADJUST: $VOLUME_ADJUST"
# perform the volume adjustment
$SOX -v $VOLUME_ADJUST -t .wav "$filename.tmp.wav" "$filename.wav"
# remove temporary file
rm -f "$filename.tmp.wav"

# reduce to mono for size
$SOX "$filename.wav" -c 1 -t .wav "$filename.tmp.wav"
mv -f "$filename.tmp.wav" "$filename.wav"

# convert from WAV to MP3
lame $filename.wav $filename.mp3

# remove wav file
rm $filename.wav
done

You would run the script like this:

./npr.sh *ram *smil

Well for those who care but are not into SACRIFICE check out the Lazy Environmentalist. I subscribe to his podcast. Other related podcasts I subscribe to are that are environmental related Earth & Sky, Living On Earth, Pulse of the Planet, and Science Friday. Avoid The Green Peril or you too could suffer the fate of South Park in Smug Alert!

There was an informative Science Friday discussion last friday. Check it out here. http://sciencefriday.com/streaming.html

Anyone interested in this topic should check out the work of Temple Gradin. She's an autistic professor of Animal Science. In addition to her main field of research, she's done a lot of study on autism and sciencey people.

She was on Science Friday last week. Podcast here.

Ira Flatow (yes, of Newton's Apple fame) covered this on the latest edition of Science Friday. They have the segment available as an MP3. (The whole weekly show is also available as a podcast at feed://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/scifriaudio.xml if you're interested)

The podcast:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/scifriaudio.xml

The MP3:
http://libsyn.com/media/sciencefriday/scifri-20060 11325.mp3

NPR's Science Friday recently had an hour on the subject. You can get the podcast of the broadcast here.

Science Friday

Ockham's Razor

Beyond Podcasts there are:

Let's Talk Stars (Astronomy)
http://www.letstalkstars.com

Celestial North Radio (Astronomy)
http://www.celestialnorth.org/radio/radio_program. htm

NPR Science Friday
http://www.sciencefriday.com

BBC's The Sky at Night (the best weekly science program ever)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skya tnight/proginfo.shtml

BBC Science Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/

There is an interview with chemist George Whitesides, one of the authors of the paper in question, at sciencefriday.com for those interested.

Dowload the show http://www.sciencefriday.com/ or the podcast on date 8-19 with George Whitesides. He is the administrative lead of the project and he talks about other interesting things besides Algae toting around loads.

-FlynnMP3

The audio file itself is certainly an integral part of a podcast, but it's not all of it. A podcast consists of a regularly produced audio file, an RSS feed that updates when there's a new audio file with a link to it, and an RSS aggregator that automatically downloads the file (and optionally syncs it to a portable music player). That's it.

I like it because I can listen to NPR's Science Friday while I'm working.

Like the reviewer stated, there's no reason to get the book if you just want to subscribe to a podcast, that's as easy as getting a client (buzzword "podcatcher") and add feeds (usually as simple as bookmarking a website).

Btw, MP3 for Dummies

• IT Conversations has IT-related conferences, interviews, round-tables, and more.
• Science Friday is the weekly NPR segment, with science interviews, news, and discussion.
• This Week in Science is college radio at it's finest. Informative and funny.

Science Friday has a real podcast (mp3).

Their podcast page

NPR Science Friday recently started Podcasting, which is great as I'm always working during one of my favorite radio programs.

Perhaps now that Apple is supporting Podcasting, Podcasts will stop getting randomly selected when I shuffle my library...

I just listened to this podcast the other day from http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Apr/hour2_ 042905.html The entire show was dedicated to this.

CBC's Quirks and Quarks
Science Friday
Bi-Weekly Astronomy Radio program hosted by David Levy
BBC Science Radio
Well this one's not a radio show but is one of my favoritesJack Horkheimer Star Hustler

He was interviewed about the book a few months ago on NPR's Science Friday. Listen to the archived show here:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Feb/hour1_ 022505.html

Two researchers were discussing this topic on Science Friday last week.

The thing that kept running through my mind as I listened to the discussion was how someone with enough money could run circles around these ethics panels and produce chimeras off-shore.

Now that Bush has made the political (rather than scientific) decision to limit stem cell lines, this activity will most certainly occur outside of the US and beyond any jurisdiction of American ethics organizations.

I heard Peter Ward and Don Brownlee pumping their book a couple of years ago on National Public Radio's Science Friday. They propose that NO life will be possible in approximately 500 million year due to the life cyle of the Sun. I only heard the last few minutes of their explanation, but they contend that the organic molecules that life depends on here on Earth will not form under the intense ultraviolet radiation that will be pumped from Sol in a half-billion years. No organic molecules, no life.

Okay so what if they are wrong? If Sol takes the normal life course of any star it will expand and consume the inner terristrial planets, Earth included. That scenario can only be avoided by the only other option stars take: a nova and possible core collapse. That isn't exactly a path that leads to expansion of organic life either.

So we either move out into space or die out as a life form. Humans might not (probably not) exist in those timeframes, but organic life will have to move to survive.

http://www.letstalkstars.com/
http://www.planetary.org/audio/planetaryradio.html

Both are hit and miss. Depends on the guest. But they're worth a look. And then, of course, there's NPR's Science Friday:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/

Devon

A few other NPR shows:

Science Friday

Speaking of Faith

To the Best of Our Knowledge

The World

And the most popular hour on public radio:
Car Talk

Shahriar Afshar's 2004 double slit experiment pretty much invalidates a common belief in Quantum Mechanics, namely Bohr's duality principle. In his experiment, photons behave as waves and particles at the same time.

Suprised no one has alinked to the actual WHOI announcement.

There was also a very good NPR Science Friday Discussion on this back in August.

On last Friday's Science Friday program they covered this topic.
Science Friday
TOTN Audio

Ira Flatow's "Science Friday" will broadcast from the museum on Friday 6/18.

Paul Allen, David Brin, Octavia Butler and others will be interviewed in the first hour.

The second hour will be about Mars, factual and science fictional.

Here is NPR's information page:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2004/Jun/hour1_ 061804.html

Stefan Jones

Per the Science Friday Archive page, archived audio is available for shows broadcast after mid-1996. You can search by date & topic. The stream is Real Audio, but appears to sans-membership. You can search by date and topic.

If he wasn't such a respected science journalist in the mass media, I would agree.

For those that don't remember, he used to host Newton's Apple when it first aired. He also does numerous reports for NPR, as well as the weekly Science Friday (which any self-respecting /.er should listen to and support) and at least one book.

Besides, I think Lisa would pimp-slap him on general principle.

I know NPR is less of a public service than it is a not-for-profit business. And I know it's probably too much to ask for an Ogg Vorbis stream, but I would happily settle for a mp3 stream.

Luckily the GENIUSES at Science Friday help make it possible by maintaining a rather concise list of NPR streams of various formats, including mp3.

But these are all localized streams, and likely not localized to your location. Would be nice if there was a national stream available for free in an open format.

One would think donations from large organizations like Real Media would make it possible to offer MORE choices, not less.

I know NPR is less of a public service than it is a not-for-profit business. And I know it's probably too much to ask for an Ogg Vorbis stream, but I would happily settle for a mp3 stream.

Luckily the GENIUSES at Science Friday help make it possible by maintaining a rather concise list of NPR streams of various formats, including mp3.

But these are all localized streams, and likely not localized to your location. Would be nice if there was a national stream available for free in an open format.

One would think donations from large organizations like Real Media would make it possible to offer MORE choices, not less.

National Public Radiois not a visual medium, but neither is HAM Radio. This sounds like the kind of report that might be of interest to Talk of the Nation's Science Friday. Email show suggestions to scifri[AT]sciencefriday.com.

This was covered on NPR this past Friday. You can probally find some archive of it if you're interested in hearing it.. try here. It sounded interesting but not quite viable yet based on what I heard.

I am a fan of Dr Kaku (4:26pm EST Fri Jun 27 2003)
But, I need to respond with a resounding, HUH? to this blurb. Dr. Kaku has giving me invaluable insights into string theory, and his ideaas for public policy are well reasoned and logical, but what's with the report on needed to turn off artificial monkey brains? Heck, I am as liberal and prohuman as the next guy, but I feel that I could really use some murderous sim simians. - by IA my eye

Quack (5:06pm EST Fri Jun 27 2003)
I read Visions and had a high opinion of Dr. Kaku, until I realized he was the central figure organizing and supporting the protests against the launch of the Ullyses Saturn Probe.
He did this because he believed that the RTGs on the probe would contaminate the earth if they re-entered the atmosphere. The probability of this happening is beyond remot

You mean Talk Of The Nation's Science Friday with Ira Flatow?

(Streaming audio can be found if you dig around here.)

(Streaming audio can be found if you dig around here.)

The link is
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1_ 011703.html
and it seems to be only #$@#% real audio

This is very interesting. Just yesterday Ira Flatow had both Bruce Perens and Michael Robertson on his show, Science Friday . Bruce is actually a pretty cool guy, I expected him to be more militant and opinionated for some reason. He kind of reminds me of Emo Phillips.

Bruce made a very artful dodge when asked whether Lindows was any good. He basically acknowledged that it was good to have another group working on making Linux better but he diplomatically avoided saying anything good about Lindows.

You can listen to the show in Real format here: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1_ 011703.html

This is very interesting. Just yesterday Ira Flatow had both Bruce Perens and Michael Robertson on his show, Science Friday . Bruce is actually a pretty cool guy, I expected him to be more militant and opinionated for some reason. He kind of reminds me of Emo Phillips.

Bruce made a very artful dodge when asked whether Lindows was any good. He basically acknowledged that it was good to have another group working on making Linux better but he diplomatically avoided saying anything good about Lindows.

You can listen to the show in Real format here: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1_ 011703.html

There was a pretty decent interview w/ Crichton on NPR's Talk of the Nation - Science Friday today.

The archive audio is usually available in a day or two. The page for this show is here.

There was a pretty decent interview w/ Crichton on NPR's Talk of the Nation - Science Friday today.

The archive audio is usually available in a day or two. The page for this show is here.

here

"The jet looks like steam from a high-pressure boiler," said David Burrows of Penn State, another coauthor of the paper, "except when you realize you are looking at a stream of matter and anti-matter electrons moving at half the speed of light!"

Check out this cool picture from Science Friday.

And a meatspace link: check out ferrofluids for yourself at the exploratorium -- if the exhibit is still there (it was maybe 4 years ago, upstairs), they have a tank of ferrofluid (with I think a lighter different-colored fluid floating on top). Pressing the buttons activates different electromagnets under the fluid, and it forms bumps on the surface (maybe protruding through the different colored liquid, as in the picture above, if I remember right). It's neat to see the surface of a liquid that is not flat, yet not moving. The exploratorium is well worth the visit if you're in the SF bay area.

Check out this cool picture from Science Friday.

And a meatspace link: check out ferrofluids for yourself at the exploratorium -- if the exhibit is still there (it was maybe 4 years ago, upstairs), they have a tank of ferrofluid (with I think a lighter different-colored fluid floating on top). Pressing the buttons activates different electromagnets under the fluid, and it forms bumps on the surface (maybe protruding through the different colored liquid, as in the picture above, if I remember right). It's neat to see the surface of a liquid that is not flat, yet not moving. The exploratorium is well worth the visit if you're in the SF bay area.

In the spring, Dr. Stickgold talked about Tetris and sleep on Science Friday. I enjoyed the show.

In high school, we played Nyet, a free Tetris clone, too much. I remember envisioning Nyet pieces while falling asleep more than any actual dreams. I would see the column covering my entire field of vision in my mind's eye. Pieces would drop down, and I'd play Nyet against myself while falling asleep. Many of my friends reported similar experiences. Many of us also saw objects, mainly buildings, in the real world and instantly imagined which pieces we'd need to to clear.

Even Science Friday doesn't do this...

I tried to tell Malda, but he won't listen.