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Best Science News Podcasts?

Posted by Cliff on from the internet-broadcasts-for-the-brain dept.

scienceListener asks: "As an avid radio listener with an interest in science and technology communication, I'm really excited about podcasts. I've found many that I like, and many more that are just terrible. One of the areas I find very lacking is science news podcasting. Aside from some very good podcasts that are really repackaged radio shows (NPR's Science Friday and their aggregated Health and Science, Canada's Quirks and Quarks, Australia's The Science Show, and a few others), and a couple produced by science centers (the Current Science & Technology Podcast from Boston's Museum of Science and the Redshift Report from the Ontario Science Centre -- which is good but isn't really about science news), I haven't found any independently-produced science podcasts worth listening to. Is anyone doing science news without the help of a major organization and doing it well?"

7 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Re:A few choices... by joschm0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Naked Scientists: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

    What a disappointment that site was. I didn't find one naked scientist.

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  2. Re:Nature Journal by mexter2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very cool! But I have to wonder, on the picture featured on the Nature site, what is the woman with the open robe holding, and what is she about to do with it?? (http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/images/podca st2.gif) Call me prudish, but is this sort of thing really nature? :) - ME -

  3. Re:Any good christian science podcasts? by Karma_fucker_sucker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes! All of them! You see, God created science, therefore, ALL of science is God's work. To reject science is to reject God!

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  4. Re:Hmmmmmmm by xSauronx · · Score: 3, Funny

    i think, when you broadcast it over radio waves its no longer called podcasting.....but rather, "radio". ;)

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  5. Re:A few choices... by MyIS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Disappointment... or relief?

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  6. Re:A few choices... by LGV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for posting that. I was avoiding the link out of fear of naked scientists.

  7. Re:If you ever say PODCAST again... by ScottyH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or "screamcast". Yeah...that's sweet.