RadioLab In Space!

[Gargamel]

RadioLab just released it's latest episode, which just happens to be a compilation of some interviews with astronauts they've done.  I really enjoyed listening to this one.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/dark-side-earth

Now, for us SUG's (Space Uber Geeks), the host's are not space geeks.  It is pretty softball in terms of questions.  But the stories the astronauts are telling are quite entertaining. 

For those that don't know RadioLab, it is basically a radio show that they find interesting stories and report on them.  They cover a very, very wide variety of topics, from the history of American Football, to Elevator Push button collecting, to CRISPR, to Rogue Racoons.   It's a well told, entertaining way to spend your commute.

And if you like legal discussions, the same producers make More Perfect, a look into some of the US Supreme Court's cases, told in an entertaining way. 

[tater]

Yeah, this was a decent episode, and actually sort of related to science for a change (I delete the non-science episodes from my feed without listening to them these days, which means I delete most of them, sadly).

[Gargamel]

Some of the older episodes are weak, as they were finding their style, but I have yet to find an episode I didn't like.  WNYC has a couple science focused podcasts available, if that's your thing (obviously is LOL).   I listen to them for the story telling, not the subject matter.  They have made every topic they have covered interesting to listen to.

[tater]

1 hour ago, Gargamel said:

Some of the older episodes are weak, as they were finding their style, but I have yet to find an episode I didn't like.  WNYC has a couple science focused podcasts available, if that's your thing (obviously is LOL).   I listen to them for the story telling, not the subject matter.  They have made every topic they have covered interesting to listen to.

RadioLab is focused on science, or always used to be. I've listened to pretty much all of them until the last couple years (I'd say certainly all, but I might have missed one). The storytelling is still good (I like This American Life, as well), but when I see "radiolab" I think "science," (the Sloan Foundation blurb about supporting science and technology in the modern world every episode reinforces this) and when it turns out to be another political rant, I get POed. If they want to do non-science, fine, spin it off (don't play the SCOTUS ones as radiolab, for example), or make a TAL sort of show for those topics. I know what I'm in for with TAL, I just don't like the bait and switch.

 

Edited April 30, 2018 by tater

[Gargamel]

18 hours ago, tater said:

don't play the SCOTUS ones as radiolab

I really enjoy the SCOTUS ones, but on their own.  I understand they are playing them to give you a taste, but they may do it too often.