en-us Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:23:04 -0500 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrSciencePodcast/~3/9689240/541989.html What do you do when you're bored? Do you send emails to friends? Do you play cricket in the hallways of your work place? Do you Photoshop pictures of David Hasselhoff? Or do you obsessively clean your house Ââ' not that I have done any of these things. Everyone has different ways of coping with boredom. And although most of us think that boredom is a bad thing, there is some support to the notion that boredom is a naturally occurring emotion, and far from being suppressed, it should be embraced. <div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/MrSciencePodcast?a=SKjHJotX"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/MrSciencePodcast?i=SKjHJotX" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/MrSciencePodcast?a=pfZmtvjm"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/MrSciencePodcast?i=pfZmtvjm" border="0"></img></a></div> mrscienceblog@gmail.com (Marc West) Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:18:18 -0400 207373 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ITConversations-EverythingMP3?m=619 Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Martinez Hewlett, professor emeritus, molecular biology at University of Arizona, and the author of "Evolution from Creation to New Creation -- Conflict, Conversations and Convergence. He's looking at the relationship between science and theology.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ITConversations-EverythingMP3?g=619"/> Fri, 12 May 2006 12:53:21 -0400 http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail989.html 2097 http://www.kpbs.org/words/ To celebrate the founding of KPBS 45 years ago, Richard and Martha take a look at the language of hippies and the 1960s. Thu, 11 May 2006 10:29:36 -0400 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/139/510028/5374600/KPBS_5374600.mp3 12922 http://www.enivrez.com/bedtime/archives/2005/12/a_poetics_for_b.html All week I've been in the nether regions, the sticks, the country, the bucolic boonies, the hinterregions of the backwoods, fretting over how much I'd have to read to you upon my return, how many hours I'd have to try my larynx to make it up to you, just how many stories I'd have to penitently tell. I worried whether I'd still be able to read at all, for sources had said that that part of the land is full of heathens, of illiterates, of INGRATES! Fortunately, in fact, the people in that part of the land were full of nothing but good cheer and good will, and I never questioned their ability to read, and I myself returned wtih literacy intact. Whether my oral storytelling skills were preserved as well, I'm not sure-- here's a nice long one to put them to the test. miette@enivrez.com Wed, 03 May 2006 07:20:20 -0400 204 http://www.newscientist.com/data/av/podcast/newsci-20060414-electrify.mp3 Why the best way to give your mental faculties a boost may well be with a 9 volt battery. Plus a tour of San Francisco, 100 years after the earthquake that changed history. Tue, 02 May 2006 14:35:09 -0400 http://www.newscientist.com/data/av/podcast/newsci-20060414-electrify.mp3 8146 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/lin_20060429.mp3 Keith Allan on taboo and the censoring of language.<br><br>Humans apply taboos not just to behaviour, but also to language. How strange that we seem to have no word in English for such a universal practice until 1777.<br><br>Keith Allan is Reader in Linguistics at Monash University. He and Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics at Monash, are co-authors of <em>Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language</em>, which this talk is based upon. Tue, 02 May 2006 09:58:05 -0400 2006-04-29 Forbidden words - Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 12781 http://podcasts.theworld.org/pod/tech/tech_032906.mp3 We follow today's total solar eclipse as it traveled from Brazil, across the Atlantic Ocean, through West Africa, across the sands of North Africa, through Turkey, central Asia, and finally Mongolia. We'll have first-hand accounts of the eclipse from Ghana and Libya. Then, we're off to Kazakhstan for the launch of the latest mission to the International Space Station. The three-man team includes the first Brazilian astronaut. We'll go to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. And we end with a remembrance of Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, who died last weekend at the age of 84. Check out show notes and more at http://www.worldstechpodcast.blogspot.com Mon, 01 May 2006 10:50:58 -0400 http://podcasts.theworld.org/pod/tech/tech_032906.mp3 6465 http://www.kpbs.org/words/ The Verbivores discuss how Latin lives on in many English words and phrases. Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:56:34 -0400 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/139/510028/5290737/KPBS_5290737.mp3 4888 http://www.kpbs.org/words/ The Verbivores convene another meeting of Wordaholics Anonymous, a support group for those of us who are intoxicated by syntax and besotted with language. Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:56:19 -0400 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/139/510028/5334687/KPBS_5334687.mp3 7855 http://www.newscientist.com/data/av/podcast/newsci-20060317-life-on-mars.mp3 We examine whether the language you speak dictates the way you think, and the new evidence that says the atmosphere on Mars was once thicker than Earth's own. Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:24:35 -0400 http://www.newscientist.com/data/av/podcast/newsci-20060317-life-on-mars.mp3 7231