Inspiring podcasts?
jim thomas
Friday, 21 March 2008 01:53 UTC
I’m addicted to podcasts and after SciBarCamp I wished I had put up a piece of paper where people could write down details of where to find inspiring podcasts online about the sort of topics being discussed at the weekend – ideally accessible to the general listener.
So consider this that piece of paper. Where do you go looking online for inspiring talks to listen to? Any particular podcasts or podcast series to recommend?
cheers
Jim
here are my offerings:
The Long Now Foundation Seminars – Great talks about both the future and the past often focused on emerging science and technology trends.
TED – Half hour talks by big thinkers – often on technology-related matters.
FIB – Futures in Biotech – A series of podcasts talking with scientists working on the cuttinge edge of biotechnology – eg. synthetic biology, proteonomics, metagenomics, personal genomics etc.
IT Conversations – Interviews with innovators, IT stuff, talks from emerging technologies conference and shorter biotech interviews.
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I usually like Robert Scoble’s videos. They can be a bit hit and miss, sometimes with too much of a business focus, but often really interesting.
Older ones are at The Scoble Show and newer ones at Fastcompany.tv.
I also really like the Authors@Google series. A recent one is with Clay Shirky.
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These are videos, but available on iTunes as well. I just ran across them while looking for something else: MIT World
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The Skeptics Guide to the Universe – easily the best podcast I’ve found. Debunking pseudoscience and flying the flag for rational thinking.
I like Astronomy Cast too, Chris.
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I’ll second the FIB and SGTTU podcasts. And although I’m a podcaster myself, it’s not science related, it’s about motorcycling. However, there was a science podcaster in attendance at SciBarCamp – Sonya Buyting. She produces the Sassy Science podcast.
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I should also mention that Scientific American has a podcast, as did New Scientist magazine, but it’s defunct now. In addition, similar to Q&Q mentioned above is NPR’s Science Friday.
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I like The Nature Stories Podcast a lot.
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Pretty much all of my favorite picks have already been mentioned, except iTunes U, where lots of universities upload public lectures, seminars, and entire lecture courses.
(From the link above, click on “Go to iTunes U in the iTunes store”. You need to have iTunes to access iTunes U.)
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I really like the Naked Scientist which is an hour long radio programme/podcast about various aspects of science aimed at general public. Looking at other people’s suggestions it seems to me it’s mainly down to personal views and the type of science you’re interested in listening to (you might go to a different place to listen to general science news then to hear a lecture on neurobiology). A good starting place to try out various science podcasts is the iTunes store where most featured podcasts are free and vary from a minute to an hour in lenght covering many topics in many different ways.
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Radiolab is aimed at the general public.. it covers mostly neuroscience and psychology/society. But it is so well done and inspiring!
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Ooh! This is my first post on Nature Network…
I’m surprised no-one has yet mentioned:
Science Weekly from the Guardian and also Tech Weekly
I also like Digital Planet from the BBC.
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