What is a podcast?
How do I use podcasts?
How do I subscribe to The Sounds of Science Podcast from The National Academies?

What is a podcast?
Podcasting is a method of publishing audio, video, and other content via a Web site, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of downloadable files. This subscription strategy is similar to that of RSS newsfeeds.

How do I use podcasts?
These feeds can automatically deliver audio broadcasts from The National Academies to your desktop. You can listen to these files on your computer or load them on a digital audio player to take them with you.

How do I subscribe to The Sounds of Science Podcast from The National Academies?

• For iTunes:
  1. Open this link in your web browser: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217933572
  2. If you have iTUNES installed on your computer it will automatically open iTUNES and direct you to the Sounds of Science page.
  3. If you do not have iTUNES installed on your computer, it will first direct you to install iTUNES before taking you to the Sounds of Science page.
  
  
  
• For other programs,


1. Copy this link: http://media.nap.edu/podcasts/naxSoundsofSciencefeed.xml
2. Open the program
3. Select "Add Feed" (might be called something a little different depending on your program) in the "Edit" or "Tools" (or possibly "File") menu.
4. Paste the link within the URL field of the window that opens