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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?"

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  1. Two of my favorites that you did not mention: by jomas1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Two of my favorites that you did not mention:
    slacker astronomy http://www.slackerastronomy.org/slack-live.xml

    skepticality Science and Skeptic Thought http://skepticality.libsyn.com/rss/

            Incidentally, I wonder if this article will slasdot itunes podcasts section? Podcasts don't seem to get the greatest amount of bandwidth compared to the rest of the itunes Music Store.

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  2. A few choices... by phpm0nkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Naked Scientists:
    http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

    Berkeley Groks Science
    http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clgroks/

    ScienceCast:
    http://sciencecast.net/

    Personally, I can't get into indie podcasts due to the typically poor production values. There are a lot of insightful podcasters that could be developing a real audience if they would just buy a high quality mic.

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  3. Nature podcast by jwe21 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nature recently started a weekly podcast. http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html

  4. Here's a few I like by gmiller123456 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slacker Astronomy
    http://www.slackerastronomy.org/slack-live.xml

    Science @ NASA
    http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.xml

    Universe Today
    http://www.universetoday.com/audio.xml

    Berkeley Groks
    http://www.groks.net/groks.rss

    Regulus
    http://www.regulusastro.com/regulus/whatsup/podcas t.rss

  5. Dr Karl ROCKS!!! by bmfs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dr Karl has a happy hour on Triple-J every Thursday morning with Mel (who most slashdotters would die for) - and it's also released as a podcast too. http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/default.htm

    Once a week for a magic hour, Karl is Live on Air on triple j. It's an hour devoted to the collective exploration of some of the great mysteries of life, such as "why does the water in the shower slow down just when it gets hot?"