The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is now podcasting two of its broadcasts, and you can read all about it on the CBC podcasting page. Quirks and Quarks is a long-running weekly science show on CBC radio, and has been a favourite of mine for a long time. The show has been putting archives of each show online for quite sometime (including, I’m pleased to say, in Ogg Vorbis format). I’m glad to see that the RSS feed for Quirks and Quarks breaks each weeks show into segments, so that someone can choose which segments to listen to, if one does not want to enjoy the entire show. This is reason enough for every science teacher to set up a podcast harvester of some sort.
Thanks to Tod Maffin for bringing this to everyone’s attention. Tod’s own column is also podcast by CBC, and I believe that Tod was instrumental in getting the CBC to start trying podcasting as a new way of delivering shows.