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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. This week in science by sserendipity · · Score: 0, Redundant


    My personal favourite - This Week in Science

    http://www.twis.org/

  2. Nature Journal by eoyount · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Nature has a podcast now, too.

    http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html

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  3. Nature Podcast by JackL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know that this does not fit your criterium of being major organization free, but the journal Nature has a podcast covering each week's contents that is quite good.

  4. what is "pod" casting? by Broken_Ladder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i didn't see anything listed here that was a podcast. these are all netcasts, or "blogcasts", if you like that term better. a podcast is a specific kind of netcast, which is irrelevant to someone who doesn't have itunes/ipod.

    you go play with your "mp3 player". i'm going to play with my dmp.