242 Podcasts - Anne is a Man's list for March 2009

UPDATE: we now have 316 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. I am working on it.

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. Ancient and Medieval Podcast
9. Ancient History - Alternative Theories
   
10. Ancient Philosophy (Berkeley)
    

11. Are we alone?
12. Armistice Podcast 
13. Backstory
    
14. BBC History Magazine
    
15. Behind the Black Mask
    
16. Behind the News with Doug Henwood
    
17. Beyond Good and Evil (Librivox)
18. Big Ideas (TVO)
19. Bike Radar
20. Binge Thinking History 
21. Bioethics podcast
22. Biography Podcast (Learn Out Loud)
    
23. the Biography Show (TPN)
24. Biota Podcast
25. Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University)
26. the Bitterest Pill 
27. Bommel Hoorspel
28. British History 101
29. Cambridge Alumni Podcast
    
30. Car Talk
31. CAT 2 Culture Art and Technology (UCSD)
32. CATS 2 Culture and Technology Studies (UCSD)
33. Celtic Myth Podshow
34. CFR Podcast 
35. Chronicles Radio Dispatches
36. Church History
37. Dan Carlin's Common Sense
38. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
39. Das Rätsel der verschollenen Schatulle
    
40. David Kalivas' World History
41. De Geschiedenis Podcast 
42. Distillations
43. East Asian Thought (UCSD)
    
44. Economics 100B (Berkeley)
    
45. the Economist 
46. EconTalk
    
47. Engines of our Ingenuity
48. English 117S (Berkeley)
49. Entitled opinions
    
50. Everything Lincoln
51. Existentialism in Literature and Film (Phil 7 - Berkeley)
52. Exploring Environmental History 
53. F1Cast
54. Fact or Fiction
    
55. Family History - Genealogy made easy
    
56. Forgotten Classics
    
57. Frankenstein, or modern Prometheus (Librivox)
58. Freedomain Radio
    
59. Fresh Air (NPR)
60. From Israelite to Jew
    
61. From our own Correspondent (BBC)
62. Game Theory (Yale)
    
63. Genealogy Gems Podcast
    
64. Geography 110C (Berkeley) Economic Geography of the Industrial World
    
65. Geography 130 (Berkeley)
66. Geography of Europe (Arizona State University)
    
67. Geography of World Cultures (Stanford)
68. German Cultural History
    
69. Geschichtspodcast (Chronico)
    
70. Geschiedewistjedatjes
    
71. Global Geopolitics (Stanford)
72. Grammar Girl 
73. Hank's History Hour
74. Hannibal (Stanford)
75. Haring Podcast
76. Harvard Business IdeaCast
    
77. Historical Jesus (Stanford)
78. Historicast
    
79. History 106B (Berkeley)
80. History 167B (Berkeley)
81. History 181B (Berkeley)
82. History 2311 (Temple College)
83. History 2312 (Temple College)
84. History 4A (Berkeley)
85. History 5 (Anderson - Berkeley)
86. History 5 (Hesse- Berkeley)
    
87. History 5 (Laqueur - Berkeley)
88. History 7B (Berkeley)
89. History according to Bob 
90. History Compass Blog
    
91. History Network
92. History of Holland (Librivox)
93. History of Rome
94. History of the International System (Stanford)
95. History on the Run 
96. History Podcast
97. Historypod
98. Historyzine
99. Hoor! Geschiedenis
    
100. HUM 4 - Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution (UCSD)
101. ICT Update
102. In My Living Room! 
103. In Our Time (BBC)
104. In the Media (WNYC)
105. Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)
106. Interview Vrijdag (VPRO)
107. Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Yale)
     
108. Introduction to German Politics (Oxford)
109. Introduction to Language (Arizona State University)
110. Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (Yale)
     
111. Iran Podcast
     
112. Irving Poetry podcast
113. ITV
114. Jung Podcast
115. Junggesellenblog
     
116. KMTT
117. La Resistance
     
118. KQED Forum
119. Language (UCSD)
120. Leben und Überleben mit 45+
     
121. Letters and Science (Berkeley)
     
122. LSE Podcast  
123. Making History with Ran Levi - עושים היסטוריה
     
124. Marathon Interview (VPRO)
125. Matt's Today In History
126. Media Matters (NPR)
     
127. medicalhistory 
128. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events (Virginia Tech)
129. Medieval Podcast
130. Meetings Podcast 
131. Meiky's Podcast Show 
132. Midwest Writer
133. Military History Podcast
134. Missing Link
135. MMW 2 , the great classical traditions (Chamberlain - UCSD)
136. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain - UCSD)
137. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst - UCSD)
138. MMW 4 (UCSD)
139. MMW6 (UCSD)
     
140. Muscular Judaism
141. My Three Shrinks
142. Namaste Stories
     
143. Napoleon 1O1 (TPN)
144. National Archives Podcast
145. Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast
     
146. New World Orders
     
147. New York Coffee Cup
     
148. Night's Knights
     
149. Nonviolence (Berkeley PACS 164A)
150. Nonviolence today (Berkeley PACS 164B)
151. NRC FM
152. Only in America
153. Open Source
154. Out of the past
     
155. OVT (VPRO)
156. Oxford Biographies
     
157. Oy Mendele!
158. Parnell's History Podcast
159. Peopletalk's Podcast
160. Physics for future Presidents (Berkeley)
161. Philosopher's Zone
     
162. Philosophy 103
163. Philosophy 7 (Berkeley)
164. Philosophy Bites
165. the Philosophy Podcast
166. Philosopy 6 (Berkeley) Man, God, and Society in Western Literature
     
167. Podcast history of cooking
     
168. Podcasts on Medieval Texts (Virginia Tech)
169. Pods and Blogs 
170. Podwatch
171. POLI 120A - Political Development of Western Europe
     
172. Political Science 10 (UCLA)
173. Political Science 179 (Berkeley)
     
174. Politics and Warfare (UCSD)
     
175. Pope Podcast
176. Practice of Art (Berkeley) Foundations of American Cyber-Culture
     
177. Prosperity show
178. PSYC 105 - Introduction cognitive psychology (UCSD)
179. Radiolab (WNYC)
180. Rav Dovid's
181. Real Talk
     
182. Red Panda
     
183. Redborne History
184. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155A)
185. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155B)
186. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
187. Replaceable You (Stanford)
     
188. Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley)
189. Rpgmp3
190. RSA Current Audio
     
191. Schlaflos in München
     
192. Science & the City
     
193. Science Fiction and Politics
     
194. Science Friday (NPR)
195. Sex History Podcast
196. Shrink Rap Radio
197. Šimek 's Nachts (RVU)
198. the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
199. Skythen-Podcast
     
200. SOCD 188J - Change in Modern South Africa (UCSD)
201. Social Innovation Conversations
202. SOCL 1B - the study of society (UCSD)
     
203. Sonic Society
204. Speaking of Faith (APM)
205. Stanford U History 
206. Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford)
207. Sterke Geschiedenis
     
208. Straight talk about stem cells (Stanford)
     
209. Stuff you missed in history class 
210. Sunday Sundown 
211. Talking Robots
212. TdF London
213. Teaching American History
214. Teaching Company
     
215. TED Talks
216. That Podcast Show (aka Edgy Reviews)
217. Theories of Law and Society (Berkeley)
     
218. the Things We Forgot To Remember
219. Thinking Allowed
     
220. Time Out for Truth
     
221. Times Talks
222. Tudorcast
223. UCLA Israel Studies 
224. University Channel Podcast (aka UChannel Podcast)
225. Veertien Achttien
     
226. VIS 22 - Formations of Modern Art (UCSD)
     
227. Volkis Stimme
     
228. Volkskrant Podcasts
229. We the People Stories
230. Welcome to Mars
     
231. What is Judaism?
232. Wise Counsel 
233. the Word Nerds
234. the Writing Show
235. Wynyfryd's meditation room
236. the Your History Podcast
237. Your Purpose Centered Life
238. zencast
239. zoem
240. האוניברסיטה המשודרת
241. מה שהיה היה
     
242. קטעים בהיסטוריה

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New podcasts in February 2009 - Anne is a Man

The month of February has been ravishingly busy although that is not reflected in the amount of new podcasts I have reviewed this month. Only three in total:

Stuff you missed in history class (review, site, feed)
Very light history podcast by How Stuff Works dot com. Every week a short dialog about a wide variety of history subjects such as Marco Polo, the Plague and revisionist history.

From Israelite to Jew (review, site, feed)
Bible Scholar and religious Jew Michael Satlow in a podcast series revealing the history of the Jewish people in the pivotal transitional post-exilic period in which they transformed from being a nation (Israelites) to a religious ethnic group (Jews). There is also a very loosely related episode about the Talmud in this series.

De Geschiedenis Podcast (review, site, feed)
A podfaded history podcast in Dutch by Hugo Teerds with a particularly worthwhile episode about the Code of Hammurabi.

Two podcasts were suggested to me this month, but I could not come around reviewing them:

Something Live (feed); a music podcast by P.J. Shapiro delivering his own work. Although I did not manage to review the podcast I did come round listening to P.J.'s music and liked it enough to download and keep for repeated listening what he offered on MP3.

The boxcutters podcast; a very entertaining Australian podcast that reviews television, in Australia. I found it amusing, but did not see how I could review a podcast about TV that I won't watch. But if you are in Australia, go ahead and check this out.

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It rules the waves - Binge Thinking History Podcast review

The Binge Thinking History Podcast is, considering the charts of iTunes, a rather popular podcast in the history sections. This could come as a surprise for those who assume that the audience must be served regularly and be offered a clear schedule. BTHP has been delayed several times (this time around for over three months) and it has been taking more episodes that projected to cover subjects, now and before.

If indeed the high rating in iTunes is indicative of the public's approval than it must be for the one quality BTHP offers in between hiatus. Host Tony Cocks retells the history in his subject with tangible delight, understated humour, relevant quotations and sound effects. One is immersed into the history, which in the last two episodes and in the coming one (at least) is the history of the British Navy. The product is entertaining and informative, full of facts and story, yet light and easy to follow.

This last episode took us from the moment in the seventeenth century the Dutch and the English stopped being opponents, became allies and faced the formidable French of Louis XIV. Cocks explains how the English step by step outdo the French and then move on to become the empire that ruled the waves. This takes us also to the subject of piracy, the dangerous navigation at sea and the immense profits made of sugar and slaves.

Previously about BTHP:
Royal Navy,
Win, lose or draw,
Blitz on London,
Battle of Britain,
The American Constitution's British roots.

Ran Levi tackles urban myths and pseudo-knowledge

The Hebrew podcast Making History with Ran Levi spent the last episode on debunking an impressive list of factual assumptions we are hooked up with, but that turn out to be urban myths and pseudo knowledge. Ran Levi calls them myths, but I think that is too good a word for common misunderstandings and too little credit for mythos.

My favorite debunking is the countlessly repeated statement that the whirlpool in your bath tub turns counter-clockwise if you are on the northern hemisphere and clockwise if you are on the southern hemisphere of this earth. Not true. The direction is determined by the build of your tub. Whatever pull there is from the earth's rotation, that make storms turn in a different direction dependent on position on the globe is way too small to have any effect in you bathroom.

Another one that I never believed if only because of the exaggerated Freudian overtones, is the idea that Adolf Hitler had Jewish ancestry. He did have an unknown grandfather and that leaves ample room for speculation, but Levi attempts to bring some plausibility in that material.

One that I had never questioned and also invites cheap psychology is about the height of Napoleon. Levi claims the emperor was not short at all. 1.70m or thereabouts. The misunderstanding stems from incorrect translation of French feet to English feet, which is not the same measurement.

This is really a must listen. Get that ammunition needed to spoil the downtrodden commonplaces and unchallenged factual claims.

More Making History:
What goes up, must come down,
Douglas Adams,
Sophie Germain,
Max Planck,
Isaac Newton.

Sartre - Philosophy Bites review

For a while I was confused, when I listened to the last episode of Philosophy Bites. My common sense idea of 'bad faith' has to do with an unreliable person. But when Sebastian Gardner speaks of Sartre's idea of bad faith this is appears to be more about false consciousness, about wrong faith, misguided faith, rather than bad faith.

What the episode deals with is the human paradox of historicity and freedom, of social conventions and of choice. The bad faith lies herein that we assume our social role as identity, or our personal history as designating, or even our being non-committal at times. The paradox lies herein that we are neither completely free of the facts of our life, nor are we completely defined by them. Sartre's freedom of choice offers a very radical way of reassessing our own convictions, away from common sense as far as possible.

On the question whether Sartre is still a worthwhile philosopher to study, Gardner wholeheartedly agrees. Accessing the thoughts of Sartre seems something most appealing for the adolescent, but Gardner claims there is to be had for all ages.

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More Philosophy Bites
Idealism,
Alternative Hedonism,
Non-realism of God,
Virtue,
Nietzsche.

Jonathan Engel - Wise Counsel podcast review

A wide insight in the varieties of psychotherapy, the research and the practices is given by the podcast Wise Counsel. In the series, many individual techniques are discussed, but the last interview with Jonathan Engel the attention goes to an overview. Under the title of the history of American psychotherapy the discussion mostly engages into an evaluation of the available main streams of therapeutic approaches and the issue of efficacy.

Dr. Engel's view is that in the abundance of techniques, three main streams can be discerned: 1) Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic approaches, 2) Humanistic psychotherapy, and 3) Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies. Although the podcast interview shows some criticism to the simplification, but I think the audience may experience some relief with the order in the chaos and will find the categorization helpful.

On the subject of efficacy, the takeaway message seems to be that we have little reliable data on the subject. Usually the therapist is asked, whether the therapy worked and the response, obviously, is dependent. Similarly (though less profoundly stated) the client's answer to the question is not independent. Dr. Engel is hardly suggesting what the proper methodology in this research should be.

More Wise Counsel:
Self-help with PTSD,
Wise Counsel - psychology podcast review,
Irvin Yalom,
David H. Barlow,
Richard Heimberg.