Sad…But Interesting…..
When I found out that we had to do this podcast assignment, I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal and would help me since I just got an IPod for an early birthday present, and it would help me discover ITunes more. Well, it partially helped. I got the hang of things, but finding a podcast that interested me was difficult. I searched many things and sometimes they didn’t work (Im still new at this ITunes thing). After a while, I gave up on ITunes and searched on Google interesting podcasts and finnaly came upod one that i liked. The link on Google brought me to the National Geographic website, with a podcast section. I browsed through them, and found one that had made me have to listen to it. It was so interesting and exciting that I think im going to subscribe to it on ITUnes.
This podcast including information from around the world that could interest anyone. One story I was hurt. They told about how 10,000 wildabeasts drowned eachother while crossing a river in Kenya during their migration. A few didn’t make it across, and then they just piled eachother, drowning one another. 10,000. Can you believe it? All in a matter of a few days. They said it was about 3% of their population that died. In another story, they talked about how they found ancient, intact DNS mammoth hair that could be from 50,000 years ago. They found this extrodinary piece of DNA in Northern Siberia. They even talked briefly about how plants talk! This really got me excited because I had no idea what they were talking about. But then, they said how if a catipilar came along and started to eat a strawberry plant(I think they said strawberry…), the plant would send a chemical to the next to warn them about the catipilar. The next plant would makes the leaves unhealthy and what not to make the catipilar not interested. This is kind of like Instant Messageing, but with plants. National Geographic podcasts are very interesting, and I learned many new things from it. Of course, I left a comment to them about how I loved their podcast, and hopefully they keep up the good work!
You can check this podcast out and more at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/
(I listened to the Oct. 5th one..) I wasn;t sure how to put a ‘verbatim’ of the comment I sent, but I did tell them how much I loved learning about all the interesting facts they said from around the world and hope to listen to more.
