Podcasts
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How Podcasts Can Fuel Your Personal Growth
Podcasting is the most under-appreciated, under-utilized media ever. Some people never try it. And many who do wind up giving it up unimpressed. Too bad. A new study found that students who listen to lectures on podcasts test better than those who listen in class. Podcasting is a powerful educational medium, second only to books, in my opinion. But unlike reading books, you can listen to podcasts while doing the dishes.
Here are six reasons I enjoy listening to podcasts:
1. You can find shows for your specific interests. Compared to radio programs, podcasters have almost no overhead. As a result, they don’t have to appeal to a broad audience to recoup their investment.…
Resources
Broadcasting From Closets at Home, Daily Podcasts Come of Age
As the pandemic sequesters millions at home, an emerging category of intimate news programs offers a comforting voice.
Is Creating Your Own Podcast Actually Worth It?
It’s never been easier to launch your own show. But it’s tough to persist when you’re speaking to an audience of one. We asked the pros to debate both sides of the question.
Medical podcasts cover wide range of topics - with heaping dose of humour
Medicine can be a pretty serious business, but one would never know that listening to the banter — much of it self-deprecating — between B.C. clinical pharmacist James McCormack and Alberta family doctor Mike Allan.
Now Hear This: Podcasts are Here to Stay
As podcasts grow and evolve, it’s evident that they aren’t a contained medium; there’s buzz about these hosts and series across TV, radio, and social media. Some podcasts are even being adapted into their own television shows! This is truly an evolution of media types that have come before it, which only adds to the appeal.
Traveling by Ear: 13 Podcasts for Wandering Souls
Close your eyes and be transported to Mexico, Italy, Montana and beyond. All you have to do is listen.
How Podcasts Can Fuel Your Personal Growth
Podcasting is the most under-appreciated, under-utilized media ever. Some people never try it. And many who do wind up giving it up unimpressed. Too bad.
The 19 Best Health And Fitness Podcasts Of All Time (So Far)
If you’re late to the podcast party and think they’re just about solving murder most foul or catching up with Car Talk, allow us to educate you. Because bobbing around in the iTunes ether are several podcasts with rich and significant info on health and fitness.
Health Report
The Health Report is a valued information source for professionals and students in the medical and health professions, as well as attracting a sizeable audience of general listeners seeking jargon-free, easy-to-understand information and analysis on health and medical matters.
Healthcare NOW radio
HealthcareNOWradio.com is an Internet radio station operated and produced as part of Answers Media Network. The station offers interviews, commentary, discussions and speeches from industry leaders in healthcare and health information technology. Listen on any device 24/7.
Inside Health
The latest medical information and advice from Radio 4's health programmes. In Case Notes Dr Mark Porter takes an in-depth look at a different topic each week, speaking to doctors, patients and researchers about the latest treatments.
Radio Health Journal
Radio Health Journal is an energetic, entertaining, highly-produced, contemporary radio magazine with two major stories weekly. Each week, Radio Health Journal features interviews with guests that have expertise and real-world experience regarding current issues in health and medicine.
RadioMD
The nation's top physicians, healthy-eating pioneers, and fitness experts join us to answer YOUR health questions.
Science
Science's weekly podcast takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites. .
Scientific American
Tremendous library.
Shrink Rap Radio
All the psychology you need to know and just enough to make you dangerous.
StarTalk
StarTalk, from Curved Light Productions, is the first and only popular commercial radio program devoted to all things space and is hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. As Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, Tyson makes regular appearances as the “nation’s expert on space” on major news programs and popular shows (Daily Show, Colbert Report).
TedTalks Health
From way-new medical breakthroughs to smart daily health habits, doctors and researchers share their discoveries about medicine and well-being onstage at the TED conference...
The People's Pharmacy
Everything from home remedies to the latest breakthrough drugs are discussed on The People's Pharmacy.
Therapeutics Education Collaboration
Welcome to the home of one of the top (typically in the top 5) medical podcasts in Canada. The podcasts are presented by James McCormack and Michael Allan. We try to promote healthy skepticism and critical thinking and most of the podcasts are presented in a case-based approach. We also try to inject some humour into the whole process to make the learning more interesting.
American Diagnosis
The podcast formerly known as IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH. Who gets to be healthy? who doesn’t? and what can we do about it? Money, education, gender, age, race—they all have something to do with it.
Ask The Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public. Their award winning BBC weekly radio programme, The Naked Scientists, reaches a potential audience of 6 million listeners across the east of England, and also has an international following on the web.
Brain Science
The host of the Brain Science Podcast is Dr. Ginger Campbell. Dr. Campbell is an experienced emergency physician with a long-standing interest in mind-body medicine, the brain, and consciousness. In this podcast she shares recent discoveries from the world of neuroscience in a way that people of all backgrounds can enjoy.
Butts & Guts
A Cleveland Clinic podcast exploring your digestive and surgical health from end to end. You’ll learn how to have the best digestive health possible from your gall bladder to your liver and more from our host, Colorectal Surgery Chairman Scott Steele, MD.
CDC
Download CDC podcasts to your desktop and portable music/video player for health information at your convenience and on the go.
Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast
He serves as a medical advisor for The Dr. Oz Show and is known as the leading integrative medical neurologist in North America today.
Go Vegan Radio
With all of this talk of economic gloom, and the worth of the dollar shrinking - use your dollars now while they still have any value - for their most valuable use possible - anti-cruelty animal advocacy in the mass media. While we face a major depression, the animals are in a perpetual state of depression.
Invisibilia
Invisibilia is a series about the invisible forces that shape human behavior. The show interweaves personal stories with scientific research that will make you see your own life differently.
Naked Genetics
The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public.
Natural News
Listen to the Health Ranger Show and learn about health and nutrition from a natural point of view
Nature
Each week Nature publishes a free audio show. It's hosted by Adam Rutherford and Kerri Smith and features journalists Geoff Brumfiel and Mike Hopkin. Every show features highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in''depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world.
The Social Work Podcast
Provides information on all things social work, including direct practice (both clinical and community organizing), research, policy, education... and everything in between.
TWiV
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Hosted by Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove, two professors and a science writer.
UnBreak Your Health
Alan Smith is the host of the UnBreak Your Health podcasts and in each program he interviews a leading authority on a different healing therapy. Discover the world of hope and health called complementary and alternative medicine!
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