TED Health - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I love TED talks and thought this one would surely be great if it provides ~10 minute talks on health related topics. However, there are such childish, cartoon-like sound effects constantly in the background! Who in the world thought this would be a good idea for an adult audience? It is so distracting, annoying and such a turn off. I very rarely leave negative reviews but I find it mind-boggling that someone would think these sound effects would resonate with an adult, TED-following audience. I just started the episode about food expiration dates and barely 1 minute in, I can’t take the sound effects anymore.

These talks cover a variety of topics of various length that should appeal to a broad audience. Speakers can be funny, quirky, or serious, but all seem to deliver in a clear, understandable way, despite the complexity of the topic. Recommended for anyone interested in learning something new or considering something from a different viewpoint. But for the sake of my cellular data plan, provide an audio version of the talks as well as video.

Much of this podcast steers away from harder science abs seems to focus a little too much on crystal rubbing and being in touch with ones feelings. Still a few gems gleam like the science of sleep and the effects of parenting. It’s worth finding the ones that sound interesting but I did not bother chewing through every episode.

Love the podcast listen regularly, but as I am finding with virtually all podcasts now that this media is becoming very popular, and very integrated into all of our daily lives, podcast hosts, and frequent guests need to do voice work. I realize that is something that does not usually fall in the realm of science and medicine, and it does fall in the realm of actors and performers, but it is so jarring and so grating to hear someone’s voice badly misplaced with glottal stop’s, nasally whiny resonance , throat muscles so tight and distracted that it is almost painful to listen to. I have stopped informative podcasts on this show a number of times, because the sound of the voices is so dreadful. There are many many options available for basic voice training. Please spread the word.