Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Listening ideas for 5 April 2011

Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Podcast 6.1: Introduction to Associations in the Greco-Roman World
In this first episode of the series, I discuss our evidence for associations and guilds in the Greco-Roman world and outline the various types of these groups, including family-based, occupation-based, cultic-based, and ethnic-based groups. This is part of series 6 (Associations in the Greco-Roman World) of the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast.
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The Roundtable
Joseph Lelyveld - Great Soul
Joe speaks with Joseph Lelyveld about his book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.
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Mahabharata Podcast
Krishna comes to Town
Episode 51 - Sanjay's mission clearly did not accomplish much, so this time Krishna offers to go to Hastinapur as the Pandavas' chief negotiator. When the Kauravas hear he is coming, Dhrtarastra plans on bribing him, while Duryodhana hopes to imprison him.
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Inspired Minds
Giora Feidman- The King of Klezmer turns 75
Be it in classical, jazz, tango or klezmer, Giora Feidman has developed a unique musical language. Indeed Leonard Bernstein once said "Long live Giora, his clarinet and his music! He builds bridges between generations, cultures and classes and he does it with perfect artistry"
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Fraunhofer Podcast
Weniger Rohstoffe – mehr Gewinn
Die Rohstoff- und Energiekosten steigen rapide an. Längst bestimmen sie maßgeblich den Preis des Endprodukts. Künftig können sich nur Unternehmen auf dem Markt behaupten, die Materialien und Energie effizient nutzen. Neue Technologien und Verfahren helfen, Ressourcen zu sparen.
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450 podcasts reviewed on Anne is a Man

Yesterday I updated my Podcast List. By now I have reviewed 450 different podcasts. There are near 2000 posts on the blog and with this I hope I can continue to offer you a good source for finding new good podcasts.

New podcasts that were reviewed in the past period are:

Biocast
An Israeli podcast has begun to publish: BioCast which does fifteen minute biographies of the most divergent characters - from scientists to pop musicians, biocast does them all. In addition, it has two tiny rubrics at the end of each show, one in which for half a minute little children associate on the theme of the show (for example on the question what is an explosion after the bio of Robert E. Oppenheim) and after that something that sounds like a Rabbi giving his Judaism inspired take on the same theme.
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Christian Humanist Podcast
An openly confessional, but still open-minded podcast.
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Harvard thinks big 2
Have a scientist with a great idea to summarize it in a ten minute lecture.
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Human Behavioral Biology (Stanford)
Biology's take on Human behavior - Sapolsky's provocative and sometimes humorous entry into tough science.
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Mormon Stories
While Mormon Stories is a podcast for and about LDS Church members, it does not shy away from tackling the subject of members leaving that faith.
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Mr. Deity
God and his feeble attempts to manage a universe.
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Notes on History
Paul Stoetzel telling history his own way
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Torah Threads
Rabbi Paula introducing Torah, per portion.
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World Literature (HACC)
Rick Albright takes the Norton Anthology of World literature and sort of chronologically travels the world and its ages.
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