Things Learned from Podcasts
Apr. 15th, 2008 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkMy main news source these days seems to be "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me - the NPR News Quiz."
Here's two important news stories I would have missed last week without my favorite show:
Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco Formed to Honor George W. Bush ... by appending his name to a sewage treatment plant. *heh*
Two men are suing to stop the construction of the world's largest particle accelerator because they fear it will swallow all of planet Earth. Scientists seem to agree that this is highly unlikely, but (being scientists) none of them seem willing to use the word "impossible." Personally, if the worst should happen, I hope the cause is a "strangelet" rather than the boringly named "micro black holes." Strangelets sound like the bastard child of Cat's Cradle and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Here's two important news stories I would have missed last week without my favorite show:
Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco Formed to Honor George W. Bush ... by appending his name to a sewage treatment plant. *heh*
Two men are suing to stop the construction of the world's largest particle accelerator because they fear it will swallow all of planet Earth. Scientists seem to agree that this is highly unlikely, but (being scientists) none of them seem willing to use the word "impossible." Personally, if the worst should happen, I hope the cause is a "strangelet" rather than the boringly named "micro black holes." Strangelets sound like the bastard child of Cat's Cradle and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
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Date: 2008-04-23 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-23 05:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, she is funny, isn't she? Peter Segel is pretty amazing too. He does a seamless job of hosting the show while tossing off an endless stream of quietly hilarious side comments, apparently off the top of his head. He makes it seem so easy that you hardly notice how well he's doing it.
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Date: 2008-04-24 04:21 am (UTC)One drawback - I don't like the armband, and the clip slips off the back of my suit when I flip from breaststroke to inverted breaststroke. I usually tuck the case inside the back of my suit at the small of the back, and sooner or later it slids down to my butt. It must look pretty silly, and feels quite odd, but it works.