A Podcast with a Tech Flair Le Jazz Affair brings together two of my most favorite things. Jazz music and technology. The Le Jazz Affair podcast is produced twice weekly. This podcast features PODSAFE jazz Music found on the internet from sites like the Podsafe Music Network and Garage Band. This podcast also talks about technology in a variety of ways.

Glenn explains his popular blog post on how twitter is changing political communication and events, and Jeff finds a way to liken it to Aristotle, calling its use with cell phones the new era of political mass personalization. Moving beyond Twitter's role in politics, they also talk about a fascinating blog post from an Army veteran who served 2 tours in Afghanistan, who explains what's really going on there and why.

This week we're taking on the questions you've waited all summer to find the answers to. We find out whether humans can run faster on the moon than here on Earth, if tea tastes better in china cups, and if talking to plants can help them grow. Plus we look into the world of statistics to learn how many ants it would take to carry a human and discover how many people in the world are having sex right at this moment! Plus, in Kitchen Science, we bring you a watery way to measure upthrust.

Two years after his wife's death, oceanographer and former navy SEAL, Atticus Young, attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime-swimming with a pod of peaceful humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep-a horrific creature as immense as it is ancient.

Welcome to the twenty first Ambient Falls podcast.

I hope you all had a good summer. The weather here in the UK seems to have switched to winter mode already. As you probably noticed, the podcast took a break last month to recharge in the sun but now it’s back and ready to brighten your day. Some excellent tracks for you this month. My personal favourite is Kalimayantra by Hands Upon Black Earth.

Mike M, Summer, Tim A, and Mike S make up a full studio today, bringing you a variety of opinions.

Allison from LA has a bone to pick about the apple orchard analogy that Stackpole used to describe the relationship between the fanfic and the authorized and/or official creative works, and a few more tangents spring out of the ensuing discussion.

You are going to free yourself from the need to keep puting all that food in your mouth. That's the whole problem. You keep putting all that food in your mouth.

On this week’s show: how to avoid design by committee, why you shouldn’t bother submitting to Digg and how to specialise in being a generalist.

RUN WITH IT! Free exercise music mixes for runners, joggers, power walkers, cyclists, elliptical trainers, aerobics, or anyone who can use nonstop, fixed-tempo music when they train.

Da Bear Cast is a podcast dedicated to the fans and we provide real insight into the Chicago Bears, not surface information that you can get from other major sports news outlets. We go in depth, and we are obsessed.