Wednesday Webcasts: Bostonist Rates the Current Science and Technology Podcast

Bostonist loves science but does not have the time to read the thousands upon thousands of scientific journals and magazines out there. This is where the Current Science and Technology Podcast proves its worth. A production of the Current Science and Technology Center at the Museum of Science in Boston, helps keep you up-to-date on the latest scientific research, trends, and news.

The Current Science and Technology Podcast has covered a wide array of topics from cancer, to mars, and even how podcasting works. Given that the show has been in production since late 2005, and a new show is released each week, anyone with even a minimal interest in science and technology should be able to find plenty of appealing content. The diversity in subject matter makes this weekly podcast appealing. If you don't really care for the topic of a particular podcast, you only have to wait a week, or rewind to those shows you missed last year.

The sound quality for this podcast is above average and the host, Adam, has a pleasing voice and professional demeanor. Bostonist has listened to many podcasts with great content and poor sound quality and we don't like it. In addition to sound quality, the podcast features a good number of interviews with scientists, researchers, and experts - real live people besides the host. However, if there is to be one negative, it would be that there is very little Boston-centric content, with MIT’s research centers, all the technology office parks in Cambridge and Boston and the plethora of medical research done in the Hub, we thought we might get a little more Boston in this podcast.

The bottom line, though, is if you like your science in bite-sized chunks, and enjoy a wide variety of topics, this is the podcast for you.

This post could have also been called "Wednesday Webcasts Strike Back." After a bit of sabbatical we hope that we've been able to entice the Wednesday Webcast feature back to the site. Big thanks to Colin Rego of BostonGeek (who deliver their own podcasts) for contributing this post. We can only hope the employees at John Hancock can read this post.