Karen Armstrong at TED Talks

One must look at the charter of compassion first in order to understand the frame of reference of Karen Armstrongs talk at TED Talks (feed). Armstrong is trying to step beyond the realm of books and elites and arrive at the masses with he plea for compassion, hence the plea to revive the Golden Rule at Ted.

Also implicit remains the exact worries Armstrong has: the world is falling apart because of global crises, economic, political and climatological. Anything that is universal should help to solve the problems. Religion, science, but these are mostly part of the problem, rather than the agents of solution.

Karen Armstrong has evolved from a theologian and a searcher for insight to a woman with a mission.



More Karen Armstrong:
Interfaith and Compassion - Karen Armstrong,
Speaking of Faith and TED.

More TED:
Media revolution and the effect on power - Clay Shirky,
Shay Agassi's visionary plan to bring electric cars to the world,
Elizabeth Gilbert,
Bill Gates,
Stephen Petranek.

316 Podcasts - Anne is a Man's list for October 2009

UPDATE: we now have 342 podcasts reviewed. (click this link for the latest list)

Every first of the month I publish a full list of podcasts I have reviewed. You can find the list below. If however you want to have them presented to you in a more orderly fashion, look up my list of directories. The disclaimer must be that the directories are not as up to date as the full list is.

These days I mark many of the podcasts I review at Huffduffer and as a consequence, one can subscribe to podcast feeds that correspond with this blog, rather than with one single producer. (See previous post)

1. 12 Byzantine Rulers
2. 7th Son
   
3. Africa (Stanford Travel)
4. Africa Past and Present
5. All Things Medieval
6. American Environmental and Cultural History (Berkeley ESPM 160AC)
7. American History before 1870
8. American Studies 101 AC (Berkeley)
9. Analysis (BBC)
10. Ancient and Medieval Podcast
11. Ancient History - Alternative Theories
    
12. Ancient Philosophy (Berkeley)
    
13. Antisemitism (USHMM)

14. Are we alone?
15. Argos (VPRO)
16. Armistice Podcast 
17. Backstory
    
18. BBC History Magazine
    
19. Behind the Black Mask
    
20. Behind the News with Doug Henwood
    
21. Beyond Good and Evil (Librivox)
22. Big Ideas (TVO)
23. Bike Radar
24. BILD 18 - Human Impact on the Environment (UCSD)
25. Binge Thinking History 
26. Bioethics podcast
27. Biography Podcast (Learn Out Loud)
    
28. the Biography Show (TPN)
29. Biota Podcast
30. Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University)
31. the Bitterest Pill 
32. BMS World Mission
33. Bommel Hoorspel (NPS)
34. Brieftour-pod
35. British History 101
36. Cambridge Alumni Podcast
    
37. Car Talk
38. CAT 2 Culture Art and Technology (UCSD)
39. Cat Crave
40. CATS 2 Culture and Technology Studies (UCSD)
41. Celtic Myth Podshow
42. CFR Podcast 
43. Chronicles Radio Dispatches
44. Church History
45. Conceptual Foundations of International Politics (Columbia)
46. Dan Carlin's Common Sense
47. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
48. Das Rätsel der verschollenen Schatulle
    
49. David Kalivas' World History
50. De Geschiedenis Podcast 
51. Der Sonntagssoziologe
52. Dichter und Denker (University of Freiburg)
53. Distillations
54. Dogear Nation
55. Drinking matters (Warwick)
56. Early American Social History (Warwick)
57. East Asian Languages and Cultures (Berkeley)
58. East Asian Thought (UCSD)
59. Economics 100B (Berkeley)
    
60. the Economist 
61. EconTalk
    
62. Elucidations
63. Engines of our Ingenuity
64. English 117S (Berkeley)
65. Entitled opinions
    
66. Environmental Economics and Policy (Berkeley)
67. Environmental History Videocast
68. Ersatz TV 
69. The Ethicist (NYT)
70. Ethics Bites (Open University)
71. Everything Lincoln
72. Existentialism in Literature and Film (Phil 7 - Berkeley)
73. Exploring Environmental History 
74. F1Cast
75. Fact or Fiction
    
76. Family History - Genealogy made easy
    
77. Feed Me Bubbe
    
78. Flavius (Joodse Omroep)
79. Forgotten Classics
    
80. Foundations of American Cyber-Culture (Berkeley)
81. Frankenstein, or modern Prometheus (Librivox)
82. Fraunhofer Podcast
83. Freedomain Radio
    
84. Fresh Air (NPR)
85. From Israelite to Jew
    
86. From our own Correspondent (BBC)
87. Game Theory (Yale)
    
88. Ganz einfach leben
89. Genealogy Gems Podcast
    
90. Geography 110C (Berkeley) Economic Geography of the Industrial World
    
91. Geography 130 (Berkeley)
92. Geography of Europe (Arizona State University)
    
93. Geography of World Cultures (Stanford)
94. Georgian Britain (Warwick)
95. German Cultural History
    
96. Geschichtspodcast (Chronico)
    
97. Geschiedewistjedatjes
    
98. Gilder Lehrmann history podcast 
99. Global Geopolitics (Stanford)
100. Grammar Girl 
101. Guns and Rubles (Warwick)
102. Hank's History Hour
103. Hannibal (Stanford)
104. Haring Podcast
105. Harvard Business IdeaCast
     
106. Historical Jesus (Stanford)
107. Historicast
     
108. History 106B (Berkeley)
109. History 131 (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
     
110. History 132 (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
     
111. History 162A (Berkeley)
112. History 167B (Berkeley)
113. History 181B (Berkeley)
114. History 1c (UCLA)
115. History 2311 (Temple College)
116. History 2312 (Temple College)
117. History 4A (Berkeley)
118. History 5 (Anderson - Berkeley)
119. History 5 (Hesse- Berkeley)
     
120. History 5 (Laqueur - Berkeley)
121. History 7B (Berkeley)
122. History according to Bob 
123. History Compass Blog
     
124. the History Faculty 
125. History Network
126. History of Holland (Librivox)
127. History of Medicine (Oxford Brooke University)
128. History of Rome
129. History of the International System (Stanford)
130. History on the Run 
131. History Podcast
132. Historypod
133. Historyzine
134. Hoor! Geschiedenis
     
135. Hoorspelen
136. HUM 4 - Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution (UCSD)
137. HUM 4104 (Virginia Tech)
138. ICT Update
139. In My Living Room! 
140. In Our Time (BBC)
141. In the Media (WNYC)
142. Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)
143. Interview Vrijdag (VPRO)
144. Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Yale)
     
145. an Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Berkeley)
146. Introduction to German Politics (Oxford)
147. Introduction to Language (Arizona State University)
148. Introduction to Psychology (Yale)
149. Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (Yale)
     
150. Introductory Topics in Religious Studies (Berkeley)
151. Iran Podcast
     
152. Irving Poetry podcast
153. Isaiah Berlin Centenary (Oxford)
154. Islamic Medicine (Warwick)
155. It was 20 years ago today 
156. ITV
157. Jung Podcast
158. Junggesellenblog
     
159. KMTT
160. KQED Forum
161. La Resistance
     
162. Language (UCSD)
163. Leben und Überleben mit 45+
     
164. Letters and Science (Berkeley)
     
165. The Long Now podcast
166. LSE Podcast 
167. Lyrics Undercover 
168. Making History with Ran Levi - עושים היסטוריה
     
169. Marathon Arie Kleywegt
170. Marathon Herman Bianchi
171. Marathon Interview (VPRO)
172. Het Marathon Interview (VPRO) vernieuwde feed
173. Masters of None
174. Matt's Today In History
175. Media Matters (NPR)
     
176. medicalhistory 
177. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events - Fall 2008 (Virginia Tech)
178. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events - Spring 2008 (Virginia Tech)
179. Medieval Podcast
180. Meetings Podcast 
181. Meiky's Podcast Show 
182. The Memory Palace 
183. Midwest Writer
184. Mighty Movie Podcast 
185. Military History Podcast
186. Missing Link
187. MMW 2 , the great classical traditions (Chamberlain - UCSD)
188. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain - UCSD)
189. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst - UCSD)
190. MMW 4 (UCSD)
191. MMW6 (UCSD)
     
192. Muscular Judaism
193. My Three Shrinks
194. Namaste Stories
     
195. Napoleon 1O1 (TPN)
196. National Archives Podcast
197. Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast
     
198. New Books In History
     
199. New Humanist
200. New World Orders
     
201. New York Coffee Cup
     
202. The New York Review of Books podcast
203. Night's Knights
     
204. Nilpod
     
205. Nonviolence (Berkeley PACS 164A)
206. Nonviolence today (Berkeley PACS 164B)
207. NRC FM
208. Omega Tau Podcast
209. Only in America
210. Open Source 
211. Out of the past
     
212. OVT (VPRO)
213. Oxford Biographies
     
214. Oy Mendele!
215. Parnell's History Podcast
216. Peopletalk's Podcast
217. Physics for future Presidents (Berkeley)
218. Philosopher's Zone (ABC)
     
219. Philosophy 103
220. Philosophy 135 (Berkeley)
221. Philosophy 138 (Berkeley)
222. Philosophy 7 (Berkeley)
223. Philosophy Bites
224. the Philosophy Podcast
225. Philosopy 6 (Berkeley) Man, God, and Society in Western Literature
     
226. Podcast history of cooking
     
227. Podcasts on Medieval Texts (Virginia Tech)
228. Pods and Blogs 
229. Podwatch
230. POLI 120A - Political Development of Western Europe
     
231. Political Science 10 (UCLA)
232. Political Science 179 (Berkeley)
     
233. Politics 114B (UCLA)
234. Politics and Warfare (UCSD)
     
235. Pope Podcast
236. Practice of Art (Berkeley) Foundations of American Cyber-Culture
     
237. Prosperity show
238. PSYC 105 - Introduction cognitive psychology (UCSD)
239. Psyconoclasm
240. Radiolab (WNYC)
241. Rav Dovid's
242. Real Talk
     
243. Rear Vision (ABC)
244. Red Panda
     
245. Redborne History
246. Reith Lectures 2009 (BBC)
247. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155A)
248. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155B)
249. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
250. Replaceable You (Stanford)
     
251. Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley)
252. Rpgmp3
253. RSA Current Audio
     
254. Schlaflos in München
     
255. Science & the City
     
256. Science Fiction and Politics
     
257. Science Friday (NPR)
258. Science Talk (Scientific American)
259. Science Times (NYT)
     
260. Sex History Podcast
261. Shrink Rap Radio
262. Šimek 's Nachts (RVU)
263. Šimek 's Nachts (Elsevier)
     
264. the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
265. Skythen-Podcast
     
266. SOCD 188J - Change in Modern South Africa (UCSD)
267. Social Innovation Conversations
268. SOCL 1B - the study of society (UCSD)
     
269. Sonic Society
270. Sparkletack 
271. Speaking of Faith (APM)
272. Stanford U History 
273. Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford)
274. Sterke Geschiedenis
     
275. Straight talk about stem cells (Stanford)
     
276. Stuff you missed in history class 
277. The Structure of English Words (Stanford)
278. Sunday Sundown 
279. Talking Robots
280. TdF London
281. Teaching American History
282. Teaching Company
     
283. TED Talks
284. That Podcast Show (aka Edgy Reviews)
285. Theories of Law and Society (Berkeley)
     
286. the Things We Forgot To Remember
287. Thinking Allowed (BBC)
     
288. Time Out for Truth
     
289. Times Talks
290. the Tolkien Professor
291. Tudorcast
292. UChannel Podcast (aka University Channel Podcast)
293. UCLA Israel Studies 
294. US History since 1877 (Temple College)
295. Veertien Achttien
     
296. VIS 22 - Formations of Modern Art (UCSD)
     
297. Volkis Stimme
     
298. Volkskrant Podcasts
299. Voor 1 nacht (KRO)
300. Wanhoffs Wunderbare Welt der Wissenschaft 
301. We the People Stories
302. Welcome to Mars
     
303. What is Judaism?
304. Wise Counsel 
305. the Word Nerds
306. World View (NYT)
     
307. the Writing Show
308. Wynyfryd's meditation room
309. the Your History Podcast
310. Your Purpose Centered Life
311. zencast
312. zoem
313. האוניברסיטה המשודרת
314. מה שהיה היה
     
315. פודקאסט זה לחלשים
316. קטעים בהיסטוריה 

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Anne is a Man podcast feeds for September 2009

It is still a bit of an experiment, but I am still working on this issue: devising podcast feeds for my readers. Especially since I discovered Huffduffer, which I'd advice anyone to use, it has become very easy to create podcast feeds from assorted audio files offered on the internet.

I started out using Google Reader and here I still maintain the Iran Feed and one can also still subscribe to the legacy interviews of Martin Simek at RVU.

The new feeds are at Huffduffer | AnneisaMan. This is getting to be so big, I have to find a way of making it accessible. In any case, every tag has its own feed and so the options to subscribe for the readers are extensive. I want to point out though, that most of the tags correspond with the labels on my blog. And so if you want you can subscribe to the following label related feeds:
English - English podcasts reviewed in Anne is a Man
Nederlands - Dutch podcasts and other audio, most of which is reviewed
Deutsch - German podcasts
Hebrew - Hebrew podcasts
History - Podcasts on history in all languages
Geopolitics - Podcasts about international relations and power balance
NL Radio - Dutch radio programs in podcast.
Environment - Podcasts about environmental issues.
Philosophy - Podcasts touching on philosophical issues.
Economics - Economics podcasts
Israel - Podcasts about the problems in the Middle East and their history.
Law and Society - Subjects of social order, legal rights and government policy.
Psychology - Podcasts on psychology, psychiatry and other social sciences.
Science - Podcasts in technology and natural sciences
Culture - Podcasts with an artistic and cultural aspect.

New podcasts in September 2009 - Anne is a Man

September is the month when university courses begin. I have reviewed a number of new ones, especially from Berkeley. In addition to those there were a couple of more new podcasts I reviewed for the first time.

Academic Courses:
American Studies 101 AC (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Examining U.S. Cultures in Time.

East Asian Languages and Cultures (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature.

Environmental Economics and Policy (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy.

History 162A (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
A very instructive course into the geopolitics of Europe from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

Philosophy 135 (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Theory of meaning.

Philosophy 138 (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Philosophy of Society.

Introductory Topics in Religious Studies (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Introduction into religion with emphasis on historical, theological and anthropological notions.

Foundations of American Cyber-Culture (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Insight in the current life in cyberspace.

Introduction to Psychology (Yale) (review, site, feed)
Excellent introduction by Paul Bloom.

Conceptual Foundations of International Politics (Columbia) (review, site, feed)
A 2007 lecture series on geopolitics.

Other podcasts I reviewed for the first time:
Dogear Nation (review, site, feed)
Technology podcast which chooses its subjects from the bookmarking site Delicious

Long Now podcast (review, site, feed)
Lectures held at The Long Now, an institute which takes a long term vision.

Omega Tau Podcast (review, site, feed)
Bilingual science and technology podcast; interviews with experts. (feed in English, feed in German)

Dutch podcasts (huffduffed):
Marathon Arie Kleywegt (review, site, feed)
Marathon Interview uit 1993.

Marathon Herman Bianchi (review, site, feed)
Marathon Interview uit 1992.

Hoorspelen (review, site, feed)
Mijn Huffduffer feed met Nederlandstalige hoorspelen.

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Paniekvirus - Argos Podcast

Onderzoeksjournalistiek in podcast is te verkrijgen via de VPRO in het programma Argos (feed). Het laatste programma in die serie gaat over Ab Osterhaus, die we recentelijk al eerder in twee andere podcasts gehoord hebben en besproken hebben.

De kwestie kwam daar ook al voorzichtig aan de orde: Osterhaus is een uitgesproken stem in de media voor grootschalig preventieve investeringen in verband met de Mexicaanse Griep. De Nederlandse overheid, die zich laat adviseren door Osterhaus, besloot 34 miljoen vaccins te bestellen, terwijl bijvoorbeeld de Belgische een order voor maar een fractie daarvan plaatste. Osterhaus zou belangen hebben in de pharmceutische industrie en indirect aan de hype verdienen. Nu het virus blijkt mee te vallen, is Osterhaus de gebeten hond en worden zijn belangen in de media breed uitgemeten en worden er zelfs al kamervragen gesteld.

Natuurlijk moet de relatieve partijdigheid van de professor aangetoond worden en doet Argos in dit verband goed werk, maar het stoort me dat de belangen van Osterhaus als eerste aan de orde komen. Niet dat lijkt mij de centrale vraag; of de adviseur van de regering ergens aandelen heeft en of de belangrijkste expert die de media informeert belangen heeft. Veel belangrijker is dat de pers naast die ene specialist ook nog anderen aan het woord laat. En nog belangrijker dat de overheid zich niet afhankelijk maakt van een enkele adviseur, met alle feilen die er aan elke persoon kleven, of het nu om financiele belangen gaat of andere beperkingen. Nu blijkt dat we onnodig in paniek zijn geraakt, is de volgende hype, kennelijk, om van Osterhaus een zondebok te maken. Terwijl het hype fenomeen veeleer bepaald wordt, niet door Osterhaus, maar door de media en de overheid die zich in een zaak als deze onvoldoende indekken tegen een assymetrische mate van geinformeerd zijn. Als je veel meer dan een enkele expert raadpleegt, zijn al die belangenverstrengelingen al veel minder schadelijk.

Meer Argos:
VPRO's Argos - Podcast recensie.

Meer Ab Osterhaus:
KRO's voor 1 nacht,
Elsevier's Simek 's Nachts.

Whalen / Rohrbough - NBIH

Somehow I have managed to keep up with the production schedule of New Books in History and in the same week listen to both a new and an old issue from this eminent podcast series.

The latest episode, an interview with Brett Whalen, takes us much further back than what we usually get in NBIH: to the age of the Crusades. The need for Crusades was connected with the eschatology notion that the word of Christ needed to be known onto the whole world and that Jerusalem better be in the hands of the Christians. What was it that only by the tenth century these ideas became so convincing that they could trigger an age of Crusades? Whalen takes us into the logic of the Crusades and in the process also shows how this crusading idea never died. Gives new thoughts on George W. Bush's use of the word Crusade in the context of the War against Terror.

For the older episode I simply went to the beginning of the feed and took the oldest issue: an interview with Malcolm Rohrbough. With Rohrbough, Marshal Poe speaks about the trans-Appalachian frontier. Rohrbough is said to be the one who has written the 'definitive story' on this issue. This is basically the effort to take the history of the western frontier from its earliest point and try to tell it as one from the beginning.

More NBIH:
Confronting the bomb,
Henry Hudson's fatal journey,
Substance abuse in the midwest,
How could they continue - NBIH on WW1 soldiers,
After slavery was abolished.