The jury is still out on the popularity of podcasts. Either they’re too specialized and boring, or they’re the greatest music and information source since the radio was invented. The truth is probably somewhere in between. In the meantime, podcasts are proving quite popular at UBC…

Here’s an interesting UBC podcast you can listen to while you’re thinking about the featured article on podcasting above. It’s a presentation by “Dr. Spit”, aka David Sweet of the BOLD Forensic Lab at UBC. He says that the Crime Scene Investigation techniques you see on TV aren’t that far removed from the real thing, although it takes a little longer than 60 minutes to solve most murders…