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From sciencesortov.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.

Hello and welcome to Science Sort of episode 266.

Our theme this week is Anchors Away, Part 1.

I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things they wish they were science, is just me.

But sort of a different iteration of me, because for the month

of March this year, I was involved with this startup called Anchor that was trying to make a new

style of sort of democratized audio. You may have even seen me promoting my involvement if you follow

me on Twitter. And what they were looking for were these short, no longer than five minutes,

segments produced a few times a day.

And I was pretty excited to give it a shot. If you listen to this show often, you know I'm a pretty talkative guy.

But it took me a surprisingly long time and more effort than I thought it would to kind of find my voice when it's just me alone with a microphone.

And after deciding on a station name, which was organized curiosity,

and getting a very slick logo design, which is the album art for this episode so you can see

it in the show notes for this episode on ScienceWord.com, I came up with some recurring segments

and was ready to start producing content. Now, one of the features of Anchor is that the content

goes away after 24 hours. But the cool thing is I owned all the content I was producing. So I figured I'd at least be able to share some of the segments I'd been making in a batch

or two here on the podcast. While my station is still technically there on anchor, I've been busy

enough that I haven't really been able to produce new content there for a bit. And maybe I'll get back

to it because as you're about to hear, I think I was able to make something that was distinct from science, sort of,

but still captures my passion for science outreach.

And I would encourage you to check out their website,

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