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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