100 podcasts reviewed

UPDATE: we now have 217 podcasts reviewed. (link)



It is the first of the month again and so I post in alphabetical order all podcasts I reviewed linked to the last post and relevant labels:

1. 12 Byzantine Rulers, history podcast


2. Africa (Stanford Travel), geography


3. Africa Past and Present, geography


4. Arizona, University of: Introduction to Language, language


5. BBC History Magazine, BBC history podcast



6. Bike Radar, tour


7. Binge Thinking History, history podcast


8. Bioethics podcast, science, law and society


9. the Biography Show, history podcast


10. Biota Podcast, science


11. Bommel Hoorspel, NL radio


12. British History 101, history podcast


13. Car Talk,


14. Celtic Myth Podshow


15. CFR Podcast, law and society


16. Dan Carlin's Common Sense,


17. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, history podcast


18. David Kalivas' World History, history podcast


19. Distillations, history podcast science


20. the Economist,


21. Engines of our Ingenuity, science


22. English 117S, language


23. Exploring Environmental History, science, history podcast


24. F1Cast


25. Fresh Air (NPR)


26. From our own Correspondent, BBC geography


27. Geography 130, geography


28. Geography of World Cultures (Stanford), geography history podcast


29. Hannibal (Stanford), history podcast


30. Haring Podcast, NL radio


31. Historical Jesus (Stanford), history podcast יהדות


32. History 167B, Berkeley history podcast


33. History 181B, Berkeley history podcast


34. History 4A, Berkeley history podcast


35. History 5, Berkeley history podcast


36. History 7B, Berkeley history podcast


37. History according to Bob, history podcast


38. History Network, history podcast


39. History Podcast, history podcast


40. Historypod, history podcast


41. Historyzine, history podcast


42. ICT Update,


43. In Our Time, In Our Time BBC (science) history podcast


44. In the Media (WNYC)


45. Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)


46. Interview Vrijdag, NL radio


47. Irving Poetry podcast


48. ITV, tour


49. Jung Podcast, psychology


50. KMTT, יהדות


51. KQED Forum


52. Librivox: History of Holland, history podcast


53. Marathon Interview, NL radio


54. Matt's Today In History, history podcast


55. Medieval Podcast, history podcast


56. Midwest Writer, language


57. Military History Podcast, history podcast


58. Missing Link, history podcast science


59. My Three Shrinks, psychiatry


60. Napoleon 1O1, history podcast


61. National Archives Podcast, history podcast


62. NRC FM,


63. Only in America, history podcast יהדות


64. Open Source


65. OVT, history podcast NL radio


66. Oy Mendele!, יהדות


67. PACS 164A, Berkeley
    
    


68. Parnell's History Podcast, history podcast


69. Physics for future Presidents (Descriptive Physics), Berkeley science


70. Philosophy 103, philosophy


71. Philosophy Bites, philosophy


72. the Philosophy Podcast, philosophy


73. Prosperity show


74. Radiolab (WNYC), science


75. Rav Dovid's, יהדות


76. Rpgmp3


77. Sex History Podcast, history podcast


78. the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, SGU science


79. Šimek 's Nachts, simek NL radio


80. Social Innovation Conversations,


81. Sonic Society, creative writing


82. Speaking of Faith, יהדות


83. Shrink Rap Radio, shrinkrapradio psychology


84. Stanford U History, history podcast


85. Sunday Sundown


86. Talking Robots, science


87. TdF London, tour


88. TED Talks, vodcast


89. Times Talks,


90. The Word Nerds, TWN language


91. UCLA Israel Studies, Israel


92. University Channel Podcast, science


93. Volkskrant Podcasts, tour


94. What is Judaism?, יהדות


95. Wise Counsel, Wise Counsel psychology


96. the Writing Show, Writing Show language


97. Wynyfryd's meditation room


98. Your Purpose Centered Life


99. zencast


100. zoem, psychology
     
     

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New podcasts in the directories and more

Today I have added a whole new directory to my list of podcast directories: Geography podcasts:

Geography of World Cultures (Stanford)
Enhanced podcast (maps are added to the audio) about the spread of languages and religions in the world. We see that the political and cultural boundaries are not the same as the boundaries of language and religion.

Geography 130 (Berkeley) Natural Resources and Population
Lecture series that explains how our earth is populated, why it is populated the way it is, how we use our resources and in the process we come to understand how the system is strained.

Africa Past and Present
A relatively new podcast from Michigan State University acquainting us by means of interviews with interesting people with the continent of Africa.

From Our Own Correspondent
Weekly podcast by the BBC. Correspondents from all over the world give a monologue about the place where they are stationed.

Africa (Stanford, Travel)
Lecture series preparing for a journey to various African countries. The first on the list: Morocco.

Asia (Stanford, Travel)
Lecture series preparing for a journey to South Asia. Insights about the cultures, languages and economy of the south of India.




New this month were:
Africa Past and Present added to the Geography directory
Biography Show added to the History directory
Celtic Myth Podshow added to the Arts and Culture directory (under construction)
Distillations to the Science and to the History directory
Engines of our Ingenuity added to the Science directory
Historypod added to the History directory

Podcast reviews still delayed

Dear readers,

I am still recovering with my ears. I can do a little listening over the speakers on my PC, but not much progress is made. Hence, I can't promise how much and when there will be more reviews, but still can give you some insight as to what is lined up.

- Open Source (Parag Khanna)
- UChannel Podcast
- Irvin Yalom (on KQED and Wise Counsel)
- Susan Yacoby (The Age of American Unreason)
- Shrink Rap Radio (Mindmentor and others)
- Simek interviews Jaap van der Zwan
- Speaking of Faith: No more taking sides
- OVT
- History 5
- Chronicles Radio Dispatches (review by guest author)
- History 106B (The Roman Empire)
- Historyzine
- The Missing Link
- In Our Time

On March 1st:
- A new podcast directory to be added, Geography Podcasts.
- 100 podcasts reviewed

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Engines Of Our Ingenuity

A podcast about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them. How does that sound? History? Technology? Very serious in any case. This is how the podcast Engines Of Our Ingenuity presents itself in the introduction to each episode.

This is about where the seriousness of this University of Houston podcast ends. Speaker John Lienhard delivers a monologue of two hundred and twenty seconds. Those seconds, though seriously filled with facts and provoking thoughts, are rife with wit and irony. The result is a very charming and very short program that sheds light on some aspect of human progress - not necessarily even technological. The program is broadcast on Houston Public Radio and various other stations. And published as a podcast - luckily for us.

There are more light science, technology and history podcasts, but I have yet to hear one that wraps them all in so little time with so huge a result. A real gem in the world of educational audio.

Celtic Myth Podshow

Here is a new podcast that recently started: Celtic Myth Podshow. The podcast intends to bring us a wide variety of stories from the Celtic traditions, that is Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and from Brittany. The way the show intends to bring the tales is by telling them.

The way they phrase it themselves is: 'bringing the tales and stories of the ancient Celts to your fireplace.' Indeed they are brought home, close to the listener, by subtle dramatization. The text is read with a bardic tone of voice and the characters are featured with speaking voices. This is mixed with music in style and the odd sound effect, just the right blend to get you in the Celtic mood.

It may be hard, hopefully will become easier, to keep track of all the names, as they are many and they are very outlandish to the unaccustomed ear. Host Gary performs a pronunciation of the Celtic names that sounded very genuine to me, but at the end of the first show he throws a disclaimer and apologizes for possible mistakes in this respect. Well, we have had one show, I hope this is going to be continued in the splendid way it started.

Related content:
The Fisher King,
The art of coherence,
The Bitch, the Crone, and the Harlot,
Shrinkrapradio meets Curtiss Hoffman.

Podcast review: Historypod

Do you want a five to ten minute history lesson? Would you like to know what was the famed warship Wasa? Or what was it with the Zimmermann telegram? The Historypod podcast delivers this material. Five to ten minute podcasts taking on interesting subjects of world history and effectively deal with them in such a short time.

Host Alan Joyce took on this podcast out of his own curiosity with what he calls 'some of the lesser known stories in history.' His disclaimer is he is not is historian, but to his credit, in podcasting this need not be a problem. With good reading he accomplishes this task and throws in some good podsafe music and sound effects for good measure. Light history lessons at their best.

So what was it with Wasa, and with Zimmermann? You can find this out by listening just as long as reading this review. Wasa was the Swedish warship that was going to be the most formidable battle ship in its time, but then something went wrong on the maiden voyage. And Zimmermann? Arthur Zimmermann was the German foreign minister during WW1, he sent a telegram to Mexico, which was intercepted by the British and carefully conveyed to the US Government, with considerable effect on the ongoing war.

Other short history podcasts:
British History 101,
History according to Bob,
History Podcast,
Matt's Today In History,
Parnell's History Podcast.