Tag Archives: podcasts

National Institutes of Health: Research Matters

Posted on by

 

National Insti­tutes of Health: Research Mat­ters

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/

“The National Insti­tutes of Health (NIH) gen­er­ates thou­sands of pieces of impor­tant research every year, and even the most ded­i­cated indi­vid­ual would be hard pressed to keep track of all these items. The Research Mat­ters site from NIH makes this all a snap, as users can peruse the lat­est news releases from their many dif­fer­ent research divi­sions. To get started, first-time vis­i­tors may want to look at the “Editor’s Picks”, which have included pieces like “Aspects of Aging Might be Reversed” and “Con­trol­ling Com­put­ers with Your Mind”. There’s also a search engine on the home­page, and vis­i­tors can sub­scribe to their RSS feed or sign up for reg­u­lar email updates. On the left-hand side of the home­page, vis­i­tors will find “Quick Links” to mul­ti­me­dia fea­tures, the “News in Health” newslet­ter, and var­i­ous podcasts.”

The update is weekly, and one can sub­scribe.Source:  Today’s Scout Report, Univ. of Wisconsin 

MAA Podcast Center

Posted on by

“The MAA Pod­cast Cen­ter of the Math­e­mat­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica, the pro­fes­sional orga­ni­za­tion devoted to all aspects of col­le­giate math­e­mat­ics edu­ca­tion, offers audio files of lec­tures, gen­er­ally by well-known math­e­mati­cians, along with sup­ple­men­tary mate­ri­als. The pod­casts cover a wide range of math­e­mat­i­cal top­ics, includ­ing new areas, appli­ca­tions, his­tory of math­e­mat­ics, and math­e­mat­ics in mod­ern culture.”

 “Each topic has one or more audio files, writ­ten mate­ri­als with links to sup­port­ing mate­ri­als, and some video files. Some top­ics link to lec­tures from the MAA Dis­tin­guished Lec­ture Series http://www.maa.org/dist-lecture/ ”

Source: Choice Reviews, Nov. 2010

Instructional Podcasts from Chemical Abstracts Service

Posted on by

Log­ging in to SciFinder Scholar today, I dis­cov­ered that CAS has made some inter­est­ing and ele­gant instruc­tional pod­casts.  Exam­ples include: ethanol, nanopar­ti­cle drug deliv­ery, DNA to RNA tran­scrip­tion, nan­otech­nol­ogy for energy, and lessons from Kat­rina.  The videos last from 4 — 6 minutes.

Royal Society Podcasts

Posted on by
The Royal Soci­ety: Pod­casts [iTunes]

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=7476

“The Royal Soci­ety, based in the United King­dom, is not only 350 years old, but is also not about the royal fam­ily. Rather, The Royal Soci­ety is all about science–influencing sci­ence pol­icy and debat­ing sci­en­tific issues, with other sci­en­tists and the pub­lic. Their web­site is loaded with resources, such as their “News” sec­tion which has arti­cles on sci­ence, edu­ca­tion, indus­try and the envi­ron­ment culled from the major daily news­pa­pers. Click on the “Library and Archives” sec­tion to be cat­a­pulted into a vir­tual room of resources such as the “Sci­ence Pol­icy Col­lec­tion”, “Dig­i­tal Jour­nal Archive”, “Bio­graph­i­cal Infor­ma­tion on Fel­lows”, and “Pic­ture Library”. The Library events pod­casts are easy-to-listen-to and wide-ranging, though many are about the his­tory of sci­ence, and include video and audio pod­casts. Pod­casts about sci­en­tific fail­ure, apothe­caries, and the tam­ing of elec­tric­ity are just some of the titles avail­able from the past two years of library events. Vis­i­tors shouldn’t miss using the unique search fea­ture called “Select an Audi­ence” at the bot­tom of any page of the site that allows them to choose what infor­ma­tion is viewed based on who they are, i.e. teacher, stu­dent, pol­i­cy­maker, researcher, media, sci­en­tist, or fel­low. Such a fea­ture really helps to make a large web­site, such as this, much more acces­si­ble and easy to nav­i­gate. [KMG] ”

From the Scout Report, Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin, Nov. 14, 2008

Nature.com wins ‘Oscars of the Internet’

Posted on by

Nature Pub­lish­ing Group has won a “Webby” for the “Best Sci­ence Web­site” for 2008.

Besides search­ing access to all of their jour­nals, their web­site fea­tures the following: 

“Through Nature.com, users can access news and fea­tures from Nature News and visit Nature­jobs, NPG’s careers infor­ma­tion and sci­ence recruit­ment web­site. NPG launched Con­notea, the doc­u­ment tag­ging and social book­mark­ing web site in 2003. Nature Net­work, NPG’s social net­work­ing ser­vice con­nects sci­en­tists at a global and local level. The suc­cess of the weekly Nature Pod­cast has led to the con­struc­tion of NPG’s own in-house pod­cast stu­dio. The site also hosts a num­ber of NPG blogs, the preprint ser­vice Nature Pre­ced­ings, and country-focussed por­tals such as Nature China and Nature India.”

For more details about Nature.com and the Web­bies, here is the item in Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter.