Signal and Noise Podcast

I’m pretty sure that most of you listen to podcasts. What I’ve become curious about is what types do you listen to and why?
I encourage you to send friends who don’t listen to SciFi Dig here as well. I’m not looking for a broad statistical sample but the more answers I get the more informative this process will be.

So here are my questions:

1) Do you listen to podcasts purely for the entertainment value?

2) Do you listen to any podcasts that are related to your job?

3) Do you listen to any podcasts that are school related for you, i.e.: podcasts about your field of study or podcasts from specific classes?

4) About how many podcasts do you subscribe to?

5) How many hours a day do you listen to podcasts?

For anyone interested in helping me collect some number data I also have a survey set up.
This info is only for my own curiosity. I’ll share the raw data with anyone who is interested in the numbers and posts here but I’m not selling it or committing nefarious acts with peoples info.

Again, I wont share any contact information from anyone who responds but the data is available to anyone who is curious.

Thanks in advance to everyone who responds.

Carry on.

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Welcome to another issue of Signal and Noise.
I dedicate the show to talking about, and teasing the listener with clips from, the movie Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth.

I really liked this move, the story it tells, the concepts it discusses, pretty much everything about it.

From the web site:
“An impromptu going away part for professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious and intense interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he is an immortal who has walked the earth for 14,000 years.”

Go rent it.
Now.

Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth
David Lee Smith as John Oldman
Tony Todd as Dan
John Billingsley as Harry
Ellen Crawford as Edith
Annika Peterson as Sandy
William Katt as Art Jenkins
Alexis Thorpe as Linda Murphy
Richard Riehle as Dr. Will Gruber

Jerome Bixby at imdb
and at Wikipedia

The promo in todays show is for the audio book Forever Fifteen by Kimberly Steele.
Home page
At podiobooks

Direct download.

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Powered armor for the military. Iron Man might be closer than you think.

Pixie dust for the medical world - the good and the not so.

Answers to old questions plus a new one to consider.

The Japanese exoskeleton I mentioned is called the HAL-5, Hybrid Assistive Limb

The direct download.

CORRECTION:
In the show I referred to an article in the March 2008 issue of PopSci. It’s actually the May 2008 issue.

Carry on.

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I’m wiped out today but there’s another short show in place.

Carry on.

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This is a short show folks so don’t sneeze or you might miss it. ;>

Targeted Muscle Reinnervation.

No question in this show but I’ll get back to them and some answers from listeners in upcoming shows.

The direct download.

Carry on!

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I’m afraid that this link was lost in in my admin functions until today. The post itself is dated but the show did go out in time last month.

On April 1st, 2007, the extraordinary podcaster Joe “Mason Rocket” Murphy left us and left the world a sadder place for his passing.

Odds are good that if you are listening to my show then you have probably listened to one of the many shows Joe was involved in.

Like all of Joe’s fans I had come to know him through his podcasting ventures and had found in him a kindred spirit and one of those people who seems like the best friend you’ve never met. Fortunately I was given the opportunity to meet Joe last year in late March. I was traveling to Arizona and had made arrangements to stop by the Draco Vista studios and visit.
When I arrived I learned that just a few days prior Joe had entered hospice care.
Mike and Lorrie graciously invited me to go with them when they went to visit Joe that evening. Tired and worn as he was he still greeted me with a smile and handshake. We only had a few moments but I will remember them for a long time indeed.

I remember Joe.

Below is a link to the direct download of the memorial show just released at the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund website. Please visit the site and “tell everyone you know”.

Joe Murphy Memorial show.

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Show number 3, where I bring news of artificial skin and a new bionic hand, has come to light.
There’s a promo for a really great podio book, the Failed Cities Monologues and the latest iteration of the semi-regular feature “the question”.

Show 3 direct download.

Artificial skin link 1 and link 2.
iLimb, Bionic hand
Failed Cities

Thanks for stopping by and visiting.
Carry on.

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I am having an issue here with Wordpress. For some reason I can’t convince it to make an RSS file that will work. Keep using the feed over at OffTopicTalk.blogspot.com RSS feed at OTT
while I get this sorted out.
Thanks!

Signal and Noise 1

Signal and Noise 2

Show 1 notes
Plas-steel

Chupacabra

Show 2 notes
Regeneration advances

Powered exoskeleton

I hope you enjoy the show and please feel free to leave feedback through SignalPodcast@gmail.com.

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The show Off Topic Talk is officially done now.
I have put up a transition notice over there to begin the process of bringing listeners over here for the new RSS feed.

Here’s the promo of the new show

New shows will start showing up before the end of the month. I’m going to try out the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month as release dates.

Let’s see where this takes us next.

Carry on.

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