What Podcasts do you listen to?

[iceman (Mike)]

Saw someone else browsing this thread and it reminded me I wanted to update my experiences..

For the past 2 or 3 months I've been listening to Astronomy 161 - solar system, night sky, history of how things were learned in astronomy. Only 1 lecture to go. What a brilliant course. It's been very refreshing and interesting to listen to. It gives a great background and more depth to stuff which I knew, but didn't know how or why I knew it. Next is Astronomy 162, which is galaxies, nebula etc. Richard Pogge (the lecturer/professor) is very interesting and easy to listen to. I'd encourage everyone to listen to this.

Other times I've been listening to Science@NASA, Nature Podcast (occasionally), StarStuff - although this hasn't been updated since June 3, Dr Karl's greatest Moments and This Week at NASA.

It's keeping me busy and interested during my commute and I really look forward to listening to them!

[rogerg (Roger)]

Ahh .. yes, I was hunting for this thread to find what more there were out there. In particular I've been trying to find more video casts of atronomy topics.

I listen to Astronomy Cast as soon as it comes out - on my drive to work on Tuesday mornings, and look forward to it each week.

I haven't stuck to any of the other audio casts as strong as that one - I sometimes listen to the ABC one and Space.com's one, but that's about it.

HubbleCast would be good if it came out more regularly - hasn't been one for a while.

I've just found the NASA ones (via this thread) and am transfering them to my Zen now to watch later tonight on the TV, looking forward to that..

Roger.

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by rogerg

I listen to Astronomy Cast as soon as it comes out

What's this one? Link me please!

I don't watch the video ones at the moment, but one day if I get an ipod I might get into them. Although they might be a bit hard to watch while driving

[sheeny (Al)]

Yeah, I reckon if I was commuting I'd be listening to a lot more podcasts than I do.

Al.

[iceman (Mike)]

I was able to squeeze in an Astronomy 161 lecture today while doing the gardening and blowervac

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by iceman

What's this one? Link me please!

I don't watch the video ones at the moment, but one day if I get an ipod I might get into them. Although they might be a bit hard to watch while driving

http://www.astronomycast.com/

It's great, their last 2 episodes weren't the best but they are still good.

And yeah - video casts are good for my lunch break at work, or other various times when I happen to be bored, but not for the drive to work

[iceman (Mike)]

I'm finally up to date with astronomy cast. Took me a few weeks but now i'm current (caught up on the back catalogue ).
I enjoy it very much, thanks for the heads-up.

I've also just discovered a couple of new ones:
- Keck Observatory Podcast Page which has some great podcasts featuring scientists who use the Keck Observatory.

- Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures. The only problem with this one, is that there's no RSS/XML feed so you have to download the files individually. I just finished listening to the one by Dr Janice Voss, who has had a very interesting career as an astronaut on the space shuttle (5 times) and now a scientist on NASA's Kepler Mission, searching for extra-solar planets.

btw in-case you haven't seen it yet, there's a list of astronomy-related podcasts on IceInSpace under the Resources section - Podcasts.

[Dooghan (Dooghan)]

I glad you brought this thread back up to the top iceman. There is a number of podcast in this thread that I already listen to. There are also a few others that look interesting.

[iceman (Mike)]

Cheers Dooghan. Are there any others you can recommend?

[Dooghan (Dooghan)]

Bad Astronomy: Q & BA by Phil Plait was quite good. He only made 6 or 7 podcast and vidcast episodes. Get the vidcast if you can watch MP4 on your computer.

Another one that is just general science is Science Talk Australia by Darren Osborne. He does a good show that I enjoy listening to.

[DSO]

Don't listen to podcasts. Maybe I should.

[iceman (Mike)]

If you have time, I'd recommend it. A great way to get information into the grey matter while doing something that is normally a time-waster (eg: commuting, grocery shopping )

I'm hooked on them.

[DSO]

I've downloaded some and have started listening. They're pretty good and a nice alternative to music.