College students are always looking for new and creative reasons to ditch class.A new study has just given them teflon ammo:New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.The reasoning behind it, according to study author Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York – Fredonia, is that the students who attend via podcast can rewind parts they miss or don’t understand