neadods | Science Podcast Post

After a slow start, science roared to the fore in the final vote (I'm not going to bother with another poll; I might as well flip a coin.)

The podcasts I picked:

Forensic Fact Podcast: the one I thought most likely to be a "I want this!" and the only one I thought was a complete loser. The speaker's voice is odd, the sound engineer likes to play with the sound, and it's obviously meant to bracket around something else. When I heard "Is science catching up with CSI? We'll discuss it" about five times in a row without him beginning to discuss it, I lost patience and moved on.

The rest of them are good podcasts. Not necessarily to *my* taste, but easily recommendable to others. They included:

Nova:PBS - three to six minutes on all sorts of oddities, from how to figure out a fake Van Gogh to how bacteria communicates.

boogiebabe_smap, I think you'd love it.

Science @ NASA - as you can imagine, 4 minutes on astronomical oddities and facts. Probably a good idea for anyone who has APOD on rss feed.

The Popsci Podcast - 20 minutes of odd and interesting science facts. The first one I listened to was science and archeology, which should have been more interesting than it was; the interviewee wasn't very good. The other one was an interview with a woman who wrote a book on science and summer blockbusters, something that would probably tickle the fancy of most of this flist.

Science Talk - a half-hour addendum to Scientific American, and thus probably most of interest to subscribers. I listened to DNA Evidence of Human Migration, and it does make sense if you haven't got the magazine.

I also started listening to Podshock, but I found it equal parts padding and commentary that was no more (and often less) interesting than I can find here on LJ.

For those keeping track (there'll be a ~~quiz~~ recap at the end) I've currently subscribed to:

- The Reduced Shakespeare Company
- Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Writing
- Colonial Williamsburg Podcast
- Will@Warwick

I am also pulling a la carte episodes of British Old Time Radio, Mystery Theater, and Free Audio London Walks. I intend to have two or three of that last with me when I go this year, on the assumption that everything will be closed New Year's Day.

Oh, and the crappy free nano has punked out on me so often that yesterday I took a Sharpie and wrote the instructions for a reboot right on the back of its case. This is the one that I will take to London for the tours, because if it gets stolen, broken, or confiscated, little loss!