359 Podcasts - Anne is a Man's list for January 2010

Hello everybody. Here is a Happy New Year to all of you and below all the 359 podcasts that have been reviewed.

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. Beyond the Book
23. Big Ideas (TVO)
24. Bike Radar
25. BILD 18 - Human Impact on the Environment (UCSD)
26. Binge Thinking History 
27. Bioethics podcast
28. the Biography Podcast (Chris Gondek)
29. Biography Podcast (Learn Out Loud)
    
30. the Biography Show (TPN)
31. Biota Podcast
32. Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University)
33. the Bitterest Pill 
34. BMS World Mission
35. Bommel Hoorspel (NPS)
36. Brieftour-pod
37. British History 101
38. Cambridge Alumni Podcast
    
39. Car Talk
40. CAT 2 Culture Art and Technology (UCSD)
41. Cat Crave
42. CATS 2 Culture and Technology Studies (UCSD)
43. Celtic Myth Podshow
44. CFR Podcast 
45. Chicago Audio Works
46. Chronicles Radio Dispatches
47. Church History
48. Conceptual Foundations of International Politics (Columbia)
49. Dan Carlin's Common Sense
50. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
51. Dante (Yale)
52. Das Rätsel der verschollenen Schatulle
    
53. David Kalivas' World History
54. De Geschiedenis Podcast 
55. Death (Yale)
56. Der Sonntagssoziologe
57. Deutsch - warum Nicht? (Deutsche Welle)
58. Deutsche Klassiker (Deutsche Welle)
59. Dichter und Denker (University of Freiburg)
60. Distillations
61. Dogear Nation
62. Drinking matters (Warwick)
63. Early American Social History (Warwick)
64. East Asian Languages and Cultures (Berkeley)
65. East Asian Thought (UCSD)
66. Economics 100B (Berkeley)
    
67. the Economist 
68. EconTalk
    
69. Elucidations
70. Engines of our Ingenuity
71. English 117S (Berkeley)
72. Entitled opinions
    
73. Environmental Economics and Policy (Berkeley)
74. Environmental History Videocast
75. Ersatz TV 
76. The Ethicist (NYT)
77. Ethics Bites (Open University)
78. European Civilization 1648 to 1945 (Yale)
79. Everything Lincoln
80. Existentialism in Literature and Film (Phil 7 - Berkeley)
81. Exploring Environmental History 
82. F1Cast
83. Fact or Fiction
    
84. Family History - Genealogy made easy
    
85. Feed Me Bubbe
    
86. Flavius (Joodse Omroep)
87. Forgotten Classics
    
88. Foundations of American Cyber-Culture (Berkeley)
89. Frankenstein, or modern Prometheus (Librivox)
90. Fraunhofer Podcast
91. Freedomain Radio
    
92. Fresh Air (NPR)
93. From Israelite to Jew
    
94. From our own Correspondent (BBC)
95. Game Theory (Yale)
    
96. Ganz einfach leben
97. Genealogy Gems Podcast
    
98. Geography 110C (Berkeley) Economic Geography of the Industrial World
    
99. Geography 130 (Berkeley)
100. Geography of Europe (Arizona State University)
     
101. Geography of World Cultures (Stanford)
102. Georgian Britain (Warwick)
103. German Cultural History
     
104. German GrammarPod
105. Geschichtspodcast (Chronico)
     
106. Geschiedewistjedatjes
     
107. Gilder Lehrmann history podcast 
108. Global Geopolitics (Stanford)
109. Grammar Girl 
110. Guns and Rubles (Warwick)
111. Hank's History Hour
112. Hannibal (Stanford)
113. Haring Podcast
114. Harvard Business IdeaCast
     
115. Harvard Press; authors off the page
116. Hebrew - SurvivalPhrases
117. Hebrew Podcasts
118. Historical Jesus (Stanford)
119. Historicast
     
120. History 106B (Berkeley)
121. History 131 (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
     
122. History 132 (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
     
123. History 162A (Berkeley)
124. History 167B (Berkeley)
125. History 181B (Berkeley)
126. History 1c (UCLA)
127. History 2311 (Temple College)
128. History 2312 (Temple College)
129. History 4A (Berkeley)
130. History 5 (Anderson - Berkeley)
131. History 5 (Hesse- Berkeley)
     
132. History 5 (Laqueur - Berkeley)
133. History 7B (Berkeley)
134. History according to Bob 
135. History Compass Blog
     
136. the History Faculty 
137. History Network
138. History of Holland (Librivox)
139. History of India (UCLA)
140. History of Medicine (Oxford Brooke University)
141. History of Rome
142. History of the International System (Stanford)
143. History on the Run 
144. History Podcast
145. Historypod
146. Historyzine
147. Hoor! Geschiedenis
     
148. Hoorspelen
149. HUM 4 - Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution (UCSD)
150. HUM 4104 (Virginia Tech)
151. Human Happiness (Berkeley)
152. Husserl
153. ICT Update
154. In My Living Room! 
155. In Our Time (BBC)
156. In the Media (WNYC)
157. Indicast
158. Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)
159. Interview Vrijdag (VPRO)
160. Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Yale)
     
161. an Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Berkeley)
162. Introduction to German Politics (Oxford)
163. Introduction to Language (Arizona State University)
164. Introduction to Psychology (Yale)
165. Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (Yale)
     
166. Introduction to Theory of Literature (Yale)
167. Introductory Topics in Religious Studies (Berkeley)
168. the Invisible Hand
169. Iran Podcast
     
170. Irving Poetry podcast
171. Isaiah Berlin Centenary (Oxford)
172. Islamic Medicine (Warwick)
173. Islamophonic (The Guardian)
174. It was 20 years ago today 
175. ITV
176. Jung Podcast
177. Junggesellenblog
     
178. the Kamla Show
179. KMTT
180. KQED Forum
181. Kritisch Denken
182. La Resistance
     
183. Language (UCSD)
184. Laura Speaks Dutch
185. Learn German 
186. Learn Hebrew Pod
187. Leben und Überleben mit 45+
     
188. Letters and Science (Berkeley)
     
189. The Long Now podcast
190. LSE Podcast 
191. Lyrics Undercover 
192. Making History with Ran Levi - עושים היסטוריה
     
193. Marathon Arie Kleywegt
194. Marathon Herman Bianchi
195. Marathon Interview (VPRO)
196. Het Marathon Interview (VPRO) vernieuwde feed
197. Marathon Poncke Princen
198. Masters of None
199. Matt's Today In History
200. Media Matters (NPR)
     
201. medicalhistory 
202. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events - Fall 2008 (Virginia Tech)
203. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events - Spring 2008 (Virginia Tech)
204. Medieval Podcast
205. Meetings Podcast 
206. Meiky's Podcast Show 
207. The Memory Palace 
208. Midwest Writer
209. Mighty Movie Podcast 
210. Military History Podcast
211. Missing Link
212. MIT press podcast
213. MMW 1 (Tara Carter - UCSD)
214. MMW 2 , the great classical traditions (Chamberlain - UCSD)
215. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain - UCSD)
216. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst - UCSD)
217. MMW 4, new ideas and clash of cultures (UCSD)
218. MMW6 (UCSD)
     
219. Muscular Judaism
220. My Daily Phrase German
221. My Three Shrinks
222. Namaste Stories
     
223. Napoleon 1O1 (TPN)
224. National Archives Podcast
225. Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast
     
226. New Books In History
     
227. New Humanist
228. New World Orders
     
229. New Testament History and Literature (Yale)
230. New York Coffee Cup
     
231. The New York Review of Books podcast
232. Night's Knights
     
233. Nilpod
     
234. Nonviolence (Berkeley PACS 164A)
235. Nonviolence today (Berkeley PACS 164B)
236. Norman Centuries
237. NRC FM
238. Omega Tau Podcast
239. Only in America
240. Oorsmeer (VPRO)
241. Open Source 
242. Out of the past
     
243. OVT (VPRO)
244. Oxford Biographies
     
245. Oy Mendele!
246. Parnell's History Podcast
247. Peopletalk's Podcast
248. Physics for future Presidents (Berkeley)
249. Philosopher's Zone (ABC)
     
250. Philosophy 103
251. Philosophy 135 (Berkeley)
252. Philosophy 138 (Berkeley)
253. Philosophy 7 (Berkeley)
254. Philosophy Bites
255. the Philosophy Podcast
256. Philosopy 6 (Berkeley) Man, God, and Society in Western Literature
     
257. Podcast history of cooking
     
258. Podcasts on Medieval Texts (Virginia Tech)
259. Pods and Blogs 
260. Podularity
261. Podwatch
262. POLI 120A - Political Development of Western Europe
     
263. Political, Economic and Social Thought (University of Wisconsin)
264. Political Science 10 (UCLA)
265. Political Science 179 (Berkeley)
     
266. Politics 114B (UCLA)
267. Politics and Warfare (UCSD)
     
268. Pope Podcast
269. Practice of Art (Berkeley) Foundations of American Cyber-Culture
     
270. Prospect Magazine Podcast
271. Prosperity show
272. PSYC 105 - Introduction cognitive psychology (UCSD)
273. Psyconoclasm
274. Radiolab (WNYC)
275. Rav Dovid's
276. Real Talk
     
277. Rear Vision (ABC)
278. Red Panda
     
279. Redborne History
280. Reith Lectures 2009 (BBC)
281. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155A)
282. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155B)
283. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
284. Replaceable You (Stanford)
     
285. Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley)
286. Ronflonflon (VPRO)
287. Rpgmp3
288. RSA Current Audio
     
289. SBS Hebrew program
290. Schlaflos in München
     
291. Science & the City
     
292. Science Fiction and Politics
     
293. Science Friday (NPR)
294. Science Talk (Scientific American)
295. Science Times (NYT)
     
296. Sex History Podcast
297. A Short History of Ireland (BBC)
298. Shrink Rap Radio
299. Šimek 's Nachts (RVU)
300. Šimek 's Nachts (Elsevier)
     
301. the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
302. Skythen-Podcast
     
303. Slow German 
304. SOCD 188J - Change in Modern South Africa (UCSD)
305. Social Innovation Conversations
306. SOCL 1B - the study of society (UCSD)
     
307. Sonic Society
308. Sounds Jewish (The Guardian)
309. Sparkletack 
310. Speaking of Faith (APM)
311. Stanford U History 
312. Stanford University Press Podcast
313. Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford)
314. Sterke Geschiedenis
     
315. Straight talk about stem cells (Stanford)
     
316. Stuff you missed in history class 
317. The Structure of English Words (Stanford)
318. Sunday Sundown 
319. Talking Robots
320. Tapestry (CBC)
321. TdF London
322. Teaching American History
323. Teaching Company
     
324. TED Talks
325. That Podcast Show (aka Edgy Reviews)
326. Theories of Law and Society (Berkeley)
     
327. the Things We Forgot To Remember
328. Thinking Allowed (BBC)
     
329. Time Out for Truth
     
330. Times Talks
331. the Tolkien Professor
332. Tudorcast
333. UChannel Podcast (aka University Channel Podcast)
334. UCLA Israel Studies 
335. University of California Press podcast
336. US History since 1877 (Temple College)
337. Veertien Achttien
     
338. VIS 22 - Formations of Modern Art (UCSD)
     
339. Volkis Stimme
     
340. Volkskrant Podcasts
341. Voor 1 nacht (KRO)
342. Wanhoffs Wunderbare Welt der Wissenschaft 
343. We the People Stories
344. Welcome to Mars
     
345. What is Judaism?
346. Wise Counsel 
347. the Word Nerds
348. World View (NYT)
     
349. the Writing Show
350. Wynyfryd's meditation room
351. Yale press podcast
352. the Your History Podcast
353. Your Purpose Centered Life
354. zencast
355. zoem
356. האוניברסיטה המשודרת
357. מה שהיה היה
     
358. פודקאסט זה לחלשים
359. קטעים בהיסטוריה 

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New podcasts in December 2009 - Anne is a Man

We are closing off 2009 with another 17 new podcasts that got a first mention on the blog - all in spite of the writer's block I am still struggling with. Before I take you to the list of these new podcasts, I want to announce I am going to improve my listings of history podcasts. History podcasts make up the largest category of podcasts that I have reviewed so far. At my history podcast directory you will find a list of podcasts covering over 130 podcasts. I will continue to maintain this directory, but in addition I want to supply shorter list in subcategories, so that it will be easier for you to find what you are looking for.

Happy New Year in 2010!

Podularity (review, site, feed)
George Miller speaks with authors about their books.

Introduction to Theory of Literature (Yale) (review, site, feed)
University lecture series into modern literary theory.

Death (Yale) (review, site, feed)
Philosophy lecture series dealing with matters related to death. The existence of the soul, immortality, suicide, dying and the nature of death.

Dante (Yale) (review, site, feed)
University lecture series about Dante's Divine Comedy.

Indicast (review, site, feed)
Podcast about current affairs in India.

Beyond the Book (review, site, feed)
Podcast about copyright.

The Kamla Show (review, site, feed)
Indian cultural podcast.

Learning Hebrew through podcast:
Hebrew - SurvivalPhrases (review, site, feed)
Very basic and not always faultless lessons in the (modern) Hebrew language.

Hebrew Podcasts (review, site, feed)
Basic podcast with phrases and grammar of modern day Hebrew.

Learn Hebrew Pod (review, site, feed)
Basic podcast with phrases and grammar of modern day Hebrew.

SBS Hebrew program (review, site, feed)
Australian radio in Hebrew. An excellent chance to hear living Hebrew. Fit for the more advanced learners.

University press podcasts:
Chicago Audio Works (review, site, feed)
Harvard Press; authors off the page (review, site, feed)
MIT press podcast (review, site, feed)
Stanford University Press Podcast (review, site, feed)
University of California Press podcast (review, site, feed)
Yale press podcast (review, site, feed)

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Learn Hebrew through podcast

At the age of 32 I had to learn Hebrew from scratch. My starting point lay with my native Dutch and a couple of surrounding Western European languages. If you want to learn Hebrew by podcast you will find that the supply comes with English as a starting language and I will assume your starting point will be much the same as mine.

After some time, I did an 'Ulpan' (language class for immigrants in Israel) which is more intensive than podcast by a considerable magnitude. The reason I mention the Ulpan is that I found myself in class with as many as 20 nationalities and half of the students starting from English or another European language such as myself. For all of us, Hebrew was very outlandish and we struggled with much the same issues, although the situation for the native English speakers seemed most complicated. For them the differences and the complications seemed the most numerous.

That is bad news. The good news is though that the difficulties with Hebrew lie in the beginning of your learning curve. Picking up the alphabet, adapting to script from right to left, getting used to the pronunciation and to the odd root system of Hebrew words all hit you very hard from the get go. However then it turns out Hebrew is regular like mathematics. Grammar is as straightforward as it can be and the roots make a lot of sense after you have gotten used to them.

Real Hebrew therefore can be learned by the persistent who can take the initial barriers. Accept the baby steps at the start. Accept the seemingly useless verb exercises that skip the commons like to be and to have and force you to learn to conjugate verbs like to guard first. (I hated that) Podcasts can be a great help. Just do not forget to spend time on grammar and writing. Without that the token phrases will never make sense and remain sterile.

Hebrew - SurvivalPhrases (site, feed) - Very basic and not always faultless lessons.

Hebrew Podcasts (site, feed) - Basic podcast with phrases and grammar.

Learn Hebrew Pod (site, feed) - Basic podcast with phrases and grammar.

SBS Hebrew program (site, feed) - Australian radio in Hebrew. An excellent chance to hear living Hebrew. Fit for the more advanced learners.

Jesus, Global Warming and more

Philosophy Bites - Nigel Warburton interviewed Don Cupitt who treats Jesus as a Philosopher. How you can make a modern, humanist freethinker of Christ. (site, feed)

Namaste Stories - Again, this narration podcast tells a tale from the perspective of a teacher. But in this class of immigrants learning the local language, I identified with the pupils. (site, feed)

Death (Yale) - arguments about body and soul and the immortality of the soul. Disappointing in the sense that some of these discussion appear to me purely semantic, but this is not accounted for. (site, feed)

Entitled Opinions - Robert Harrison gives a monologue on Wallace Stevens. High-brow literature lecture. (site, feed)

New Books in History - On the history of the trade union ILWU in the US. (site, feed)

In Our Time (BBC) - The current download is about the Samurai and as off tomorrow that one will be gone and you will be able to enjoy and issue about Mary Wollstonecraft. (site, feed)

The Kamla Show - I tried this show for the first time and heard a very charming interview with author Sadia Shepard. She went to look for her Muslim roots in Pakistan, but found Jewish roots in India. (site, feed)

Making History with Ran Levi - Global Warming need not be caused by humans. Controversial issue of this Israeli podcast about the history of science. (site, feed)

Veertien Achttien - The best history podcast in Dutch, with a weekly biography of one of the participants in WW1. This podcast will continue as long as the Great War lasted. (site, feed)

Help for podcast listeners on Anne is a Man!

The running assumption on this blog is that readers know how depart from a review and get the podcast to their players as they wish. Yet, this frequently is not the case. Many readers turn to me with questions on how to get to the podcasts they would like. Therefore, I have written a large variety of instructional posts giving pointers from the most basic to the more advanced podcast finding and listening. Here is a starting post from where you will be able to get the help you need.

First of all there is a set of posts that lay out the elementary steps of podcast listening:
1- listen on line
2- download audio files
3- get iTunes
4- put feeds in iTunes
With these posts you will have your basics covered. From here you can continue to read the reviews and you will be able to make it to any podcast described.

In addition there are are a couple of posts that explain some of the basic technologies involved. This is stuff you do not have to know, like you do not have to know how your car works in order to drive it. It helps though, to have some general understanding of what is going on. Especially if you find yourself in a conversation about podcasts.
What is podcasting in 3 minutes - An animated video from YouTube that gives you a description of podcasts in the most elementary terms. There are a couple of additional remarks to make, but for starters the video will do.
Video explaining RSS - From the same source an animation that explains about RSS. RSS is the pushing technology that allows your podcatcher to find and download new podcasts, but it also is used to push other web content to you; new posts on this blog for example.
What is RSS - Read Anne is a Man automatically - An explanation about RSS and how you can subscribe to the RSS of my blog (and others).

There are also advanced tips I have written. Pointers how to use iTunes optimally and how to use other tools to track podcasts.
Reader's Question - Remember playback position - Here is an issue you should not run into if you use iTunes the regular way. But since the question has come up from readers several times, it was addressed in length.
Preference settings per podcast - Once you subscribe to a large number of podcasts, you may want to deal with each one in a different fashion and here is how.
iTunes 9 - help for the podcast listener - Since iTunes upgraded from version 8 to 9, new functionality regarding podcasts have become available. I describe how you can benefit from some of the new features.
Suggestion for the advanced podcast listener - When you lose track of the multitude of podcasts in iTunes, you might use Google Reader in stead. I relate how I do this myself.
Devising your own podcast feed - Huffduffer - If you run into audio that is not syndicated (not offered as a podcast) you can put it in a feed by yourself at Huffduffer. You can even compose your own feed by collecting and recombining audio from various sources.
Using playlists for podcasts - Designate the order in which your player plays the podcasts and let it automatically start the next after finishing the previous.
Useful tools for podcast listeners - Three tools to help you increase volume, convert anything to mp3 format and edit out silence and noise.
Other podcatchers than iTunes (1) - The beginning of a search for an alternative to iTunes as read and download client.
Where are my files? - Help on finding podcast files on your computer. (soon)

Last but not least, you may want to have some guidance on how to search for podcasts on your own. You could read my posts about sources:
My podcast sources - A relatively old, but near complete overview of sources for finding podcasts.
Five free university lecture sites - University lectures that are podcasts are available in a multitude, but not especially easy to find and not always of sufficient quality. Here are five university sources that are worth to make a start at.

In case you have questions to which you did not find the answer, please leave a comment here and I'll be more than happy to address it. You can also mail to Anne is a Man at: Anne Frid de Vries (in one word) AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk
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A belated Hanukkah picture

Before we celebrated Jonathan's fifth birthday, we had a very festive Hanukkah (Chanuka). As you can see. Standing is my oldest son Itamar (8) and sitting my youngest Jonathan (5).