Human Impact on the Environment - lectures 9 and 10

I have directed you to UCSD's podcast BILD 18 before. Make sure you download all lectures, in order to secure them, before they are taken off line, which is to be expected by the end of the summer semester. While doing that, you can skip lecture 9 because it is empty.

Immediately after that, lecture 10 is highly recommended. This lecture is not as planned according to the BILD 18 course website about Ozone Depletion, but rather about Species Extinction (see lecture 11). The greatest merit of this lecture is that it relates less to the issue of species extinction and more to the problems of making this and similar problems of the environment known to the public and be perceived as to the problems as they are according to the scientific consensus. The lecturer tells of his own experiences of how he is publicly attacked and taken into doubt so effectively that the wide public thinks his and similar messages are not hard facts as they according to the real specialists are.

Justice - LSE podcast

On the LSE Public Lectures and Events was a very interesting lecture by Amartya Sen about The Idea of Justice. I have been more familiar with tackling Justice from the perspective of Law. Sen seems to come from political philosophies. Still, the approaches are similar enough.

Yes! A new Ersatz TV edition

My favorite video podcast. Unfortunately only in German, but rumor has it they might be working on an English version.

The last Flavius

For those who master the Dutch language: the Jewish history and culture program of the Joodse Omroep, Flavius has had its last edition, or at least the last that was brought to you by the professional of OVT. It has been a fascinating series and it got a fabulous closing with discussions about books and history. The book of Judges, The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man by Daniel Boyarin, Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész and De reisbeschrijving van Abraham Levie (1719-1723).

The Memory Palace

A great podcast I fail to review every time a new episode comes out, for the simple reason I would have to write the same line all over again: History brought to you in the form of a story. Nate DiMeo is a ravishing storyteller and brings the short narrations of history with the greatest touch of restrained irony. The Memory Palace - every two weeks a new story. Five minutes of the best history drama.

How could they continue - NBIH on WW1 soldiers

A great issue of New Books In History that you absolutely should not miss is Marshal Poe's recent interview with Alexander Watson. Watson did research on the British and German soldiers in World War I and tried to find an answer to the eternal question how they could continue to fight as longs as they did under the horrible circumstances as they were. This also leads to an answer to the question why they quit fighting when they did. And here Watson claims to present a new answer than what is commonly held to be the case.

More NBIH:
After slavery was abolished,
Populism,
Two great shows on New Books In History,
Two old and one New Books In History,
The latest in New Books in History.