All posts tagged: Podcasts

Making podcasts instead of just listening to them might help medical students learn

Making podcasts instead of just listening to them might help medical students learn

Published by José Betancourt

A small experimental study in Germany compared medical students’ knowledge of a topic they learned by producing a podcast with their knowledge of a topic they learned by listening to a podcast. However, while one group showed better knowledge about the topic on which they produced a podcast, there were no differences between the two learning methods in the other group, making the overall results inconclusive. The paper was published in The Clinical Teacher. Podcasts are digital audio programs that people can listen to on a phone, computer, or other device. They are usually released as episodes, often in a series focused on a particular topic. Podcasts can be about news, science, history, business, health, sports, storytelling, or simple entertainment. People listen to podcasts to learn new things, keep up with current issues, or hear expert opinions and personal experiences. They can listen to podcasts while driving, walking, exercising, or doing chores. Some podcasts are educational and are used to explain complex ideas in a simple and accessible way. Others are mainly for relaxation, humor, …

Why do female reindeer have antlers? Cannibalism, probably. 

Why do female reindeer have antlers? Cannibalism, probably. 

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to Popular Science’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Spotify, YouTube, Apple, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals our editors can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show. FACT: Caribou moms evolved to store energy in their antlers—and snack on those delicious bones  By Rachel Feltman First things first: caribou and reindeer are the same thing. They’re also the only deer species where females grow antlers. This is very strange, not just because antlers are generally a male trait, but because antlers are a huge pain in the butt.  Unlike horns, which are almost always permanent and are made of bone covered in keratin, antlers are …

The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’

The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’

Published by skeptic

Devin Stone never intended to become one of the internet’s most recognizable legal analysts. Instead, he was supposed to follow a predictable path: graduate, grind it out in Big Law, make partner, and spend the next several decades enjoying a conventionally successful career as a lawyer. But a bout of burnout early in Stone’s career led him to YouTube, where he started publishing explainer videos under the name Legal Eagle. Stone’s channel, which now boasts nearly 4 million followers, started out pretty fluffy, with videos dissecting legal representations on popular TV shows and movies becoming an early audience favorite. While those turned him into a prominent online influencer—yes, there’s at least one for pretty much everything these days—Stone has more recently become a figure both beloved and detested for his prolific video explainers of the Trump presidency’s various legal quagmires and the constitutional crises they’re creating. What Stone now does, I would argue, is something closer to public service journalism in a YouTube-optimized wrapper: He and his team publish upward of three videos a week …

Roman Mars to Host Podcast About American History

Roman Mars to Host Podcast About American History

Published by Daniella Wilson

99% Invisible creator Roman Mars is hosting a new series about the objects that shaped the history of America.  The show, A History of the United States in 100 Objects, is produced by SiriusXM and BBC Studios, and will see Mars uncover the stories behind objects such as a gold coin from a shipwreck in 1857 that led to a financial panic, an antebellum schoolbook that became a tool for Black liberation and a small screw that shows how the U.S. created a hidden industrial empire. “The history of America can’t be captured in a single story,” Mars said. “So instead, we’re telling one hundred. By looking closely at the things we’ve made – and the things we’ve thrown away – we’re hoping to reveal a richer, more complicated picture of who we are.” In addition to the new show, Mars hosts 99% Invisible, a narrative podcast about unnoticed architecture and design, which has led to multiple spin-off series, including Articles of Interest and the 99% Invisible Breakdown of The Power Broker. SiriusXM acquired 99% …

Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd’s offbeat literary show returns: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd’s offbeat literary show returns: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Published by Sam Flores

Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club If IRL book clubs can feel a little twee (why is there always someone who hasn’t finished the book?!) Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd’s podcast might be a better way to get your lit fix. Season five kicks off with a recommendation for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, which gave new life to its women, and Pascoe “butchering” the plot of Ulysses, while guests this time round include author Maggie O’Farrell and musician/writer Kae Tempest. Hannah J DaviesWidely available, episodes weekly In Pursuit With Colleen Shogan Shogan was the head of the National Archives in the US until she was fired by Donald Trump. Now, she puts her huge knowledge of the country’s past to good use in this smart series about lessons from “the American experiment”. It kicks off with an episode on George Washington, from his childhood to the pivotal choice to relinquish power after the revolutionary war. HJDWidely available, episodes weekly The After Dive Retired Olympic diver Matty Lee turns to podcasting with a warm …

Why don’t we remember being babies?

Why don’t we remember being babies?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Quick: What’s your first memory? Was it a birthday party? A family camping trip? Or choking on a hard candy (more on that later)?  Even though little kids remember plenty, most of us lose access to key memories as we get older. It’s something scientists call childhood amnesia.  But what gives? Why can’t we remember anything before age three and only hazy things before age six? We explore just that in a recent episode of the Ask Us Anything podcast, delving into the science behind why our brains forget our earliest memories. Popular Science’s Ask Us Anything podcast (as well as our written series of the same name) answers your most outlandish, mind-burning questions—from the everyday things you’ve always wondered to the bizarre things you never thought to ask. So, yes, there’s a reason dogs tilt their heads and you’re right, candy does taste different now. If you have a question for us, send us a note. Nothing is …

Hulu Brings ‘Handsome’ Podcast, ‘That Was Us’ and More to Platform

Hulu Brings ‘Handsome’ Podcast, ‘That Was Us’ and More to Platform

Published by Daniella Wilson

Hulu is bringing four more podcasts to the platform, as the streamer leans more into the growing medium.  The newly licensed titles include the comedy podcast Handsome, hosted by Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin, as well as three podcasts based around television shows: The New Girl Rewatch podcast The Mess Around, hosted by Hannah Simone and Lamorne Morris, Prison Breaking, based on the TV show Prison Break, and That Was Us, hosted by This Is Us stars Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan.  The shows will join the platform starting April 19, with new episodes appearing on Hulu exclusively before going wide, alongside library content.  The additions of Handsome, The Mess Around, and That Was Us come as part of Hulu’s licensing deal with podcast network Headgum. The first podcast as part of that deal, We’re Here to Help, an advice podcast hosted by New Girls’ Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds, launched on Hulu in February. In making this move, Hulu joins Netflix in testing out podcasts as another entertainment option for …

Two super hosts team up for a fun new series: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Two super hosts team up for a fun new series: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Published by Sam Flores

History’s Greatest Fails How to Fail’s Elizabeth Day teams up with historian Dan Jones for this new series about screw-ups from times gone by. Fast forward through the university reunion (they were at Cambridge together) and it quickly gets entertaining. Their first episode challenges Shakespeare’s vision of a villainous Richard III, while a future episode will consider the “Ross and Rachel of early modern history”, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Hannah J DaviesWidely available, episodes weekly Strangely You may have heard about the surgeon who amputated his own legs, but you might not be so familiar with Neil Hopper’s eunuch-maker origin story. It’s just one of many rabbit holes that Poppy Damon and Luke Jones tumble down in their series about bizarro news stories, which manages to be both informative and irreverent. HJDWidely available, episodes weekly Passenger Seat Pennsylvania-based writer Tom Joudrey has been working on this podcast for more than two years, and the result is an unsettling, slow-burn tale that rivals many a big-budget production. In 2012 in Ohio, Jennifer Hurst was the …