Listening ideas for 6 April 2011

Entitled Opinions
The Human Brain - Stuart Edelstein
A conversation with Stuart Edelstein, Professor Emeritus of biology and neuroscience (University of Geneva) and member of the French Académie des Sciences.
(review, feed)

Witness
The Rwandan genocide
A wave of killing in Rwanda started on April 6 1994. Almost a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives. Jean-Francois Gisimba lived through it all, expecting to die on a daily basis.
(review, feed)

Indicast
Point Blank with Nitin Chandrakant Desai
In our film industry, what Amitabh Bachchan or Dilip Kumar is to acting, Nitin Chandrakant Desai is to art direction. The winner of four national awards and many successful movies such as Lagaan, Devdas, Jodha Akbar, Hum Dil Dechuke Sanam, Munnabhai, etc talks about his craft and the challenges of his everyday job. He takes us through his experiece of working with directors like Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansai, Danny Boyle and Ashutosh Gowarikar. His job demands him to think on his feet and deliver results in open sets where temperature can soar up to 45 degrees.This podcast charts the journey of the man who once lived in a 10X10 Worli chawl and today is Indias most respected Art Director who still maintains the modesty of a newcomer.
(review, feed)

Radio Open Source
For a New Moral Map of the Middle East
Imagine Professor Melani McAlister at home in North Carolina, breaking down this Arab spring for a grandmother who’s not entirely convinced that President Obama is not Muslim.
(review, feed)

Rear Vision
Ivory Coast
In Ivory Coast, the world's major source of cocoa, there are two men claiming to be president. But only one of them won the recent presidential election and the tense four month stand-off threatens to plunge the country into civil war.
(review, feed)

De oren van mijn vader

Zo begint Martin Simek het interview met de psycholoog Nico Frijda: "Laat me even goed naar u kijken. U heeft precies dezelfde oren als mijn vader." Wie anders dan Simek zou dit zo doen? In 2009, toen dit interview als podcast verscheen, heb ik er een recensie over geschreven, zie Nico Frijda - Simek 's Nachts.

Nico Frijda en Martin Simek

Tien jaar eerder was Frijda te beluisteren bij de VPRO in het marathon interview, dat zojuist ook per podcast is verschenen. (feed) Dat interview is ook zeer de moeite waard, al was het maar om samen met het Simek interview te beluisteren, maar ik wil nu eerst iets meer over Simek 's Nachts in het algemeen schrijven.

Simek 's Nachts was tot 2007 of 2008 een van de meest fascinerende interviewprogramma's op de Nederlandse radio en toen het een podcast werd, mijn vaste stop op de iPod. Ik begrijp nog steeds niet waarom de RVU het programma stopte. Want Simek was goed en Simek wilde zelf niet stoppen. Bij Elsevier heeft hij in 2009 nog dertien afleveringen op het internet gedaan, maar toen was het uit. En niet alleen is daarmee het programma verdwenen, de feeds zijn ook opgedoekt en dat is al helemaal doodzonde. Samen met lezers van dit blog ben ik voortdurend op zoek naar downloads van oude Simek interviews en via Huffduffer heb ik er een feed voor gemaakt. Neem een abonnement op deze Simek via Anne is a Man feed en je krijgt alle interviews die ik heb weten te vinden, met als nieuwste het interview met Nico Frijda. Help ook bij het vinden van meer. Weet je een opname van Simek te vinden, laat me weten waar die te downloaden is en ik voeg hem toe aan de feed.

Meer Simek 's Nachts:
Ernst van de Wetering,
Wachtkamer van de dood - Anne-Mei The,
Pieter Winsemius,
Jan Lenferink,
Sjoerd Kooistra.

Listening ideas for 5 April 2011

Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Podcast 6.1: Introduction to Associations in the Greco-Roman World
In this first episode of the series, I discuss our evidence for associations and guilds in the Greco-Roman world and outline the various types of these groups, including family-based, occupation-based, cultic-based, and ethnic-based groups. This is part of series 6 (Associations in the Greco-Roman World) of the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast.
(review, feed)

The Roundtable
Joseph Lelyveld - Great Soul
Joe speaks with Joseph Lelyveld about his book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.
(review, feed)

Mahabharata Podcast
Krishna comes to Town
Episode 51 - Sanjay's mission clearly did not accomplish much, so this time Krishna offers to go to Hastinapur as the Pandavas' chief negotiator. When the Kauravas hear he is coming, Dhrtarastra plans on bribing him, while Duryodhana hopes to imprison him.
(review, feed)

Inspired Minds
Giora Feidman- The King of Klezmer turns 75
Be it in classical, jazz, tango or klezmer, Giora Feidman has developed a unique musical language. Indeed Leonard Bernstein once said "Long live Giora, his clarinet and his music! He builds bridges between generations, cultures and classes and he does it with perfect artistry"
(review, feed)

Fraunhofer Podcast
Weniger Rohstoffe – mehr Gewinn
Die Rohstoff- und Energiekosten steigen rapide an. Längst bestimmen sie maßgeblich den Preis des Endprodukts. Künftig können sich nur Unternehmen auf dem Markt behaupten, die Materialien und Energie effizient nutzen. Neue Technologien und Verfahren helfen, Ressourcen zu sparen.
(review, feed)

450 podcasts reviewed on Anne is a Man

Yesterday I updated my Podcast List. By now I have reviewed 450 different podcasts. There are near 2000 posts on the blog and with this I hope I can continue to offer you a good source for finding new good podcasts.

New podcasts that were reviewed in the past period are:

Biocast
An Israeli podcast has begun to publish: BioCast which does fifteen minute biographies of the most divergent characters - from scientists to pop musicians, biocast does them all. In addition, it has two tiny rubrics at the end of each show, one in which for half a minute little children associate on the theme of the show (for example on the question what is an explosion after the bio of Robert E. Oppenheim) and after that something that sounds like a Rabbi giving his Judaism inspired take on the same theme.
(review, feed)

Christian Humanist Podcast
An openly confessional, but still open-minded podcast.
(review, feed)

Harvard thinks big 2
Have a scientist with a great idea to summarize it in a ten minute lecture.
(review, feed)

Human Behavioral Biology (Stanford)
Biology's take on Human behavior - Sapolsky's provocative and sometimes humorous entry into tough science.
(review, feed)

Mormon Stories
While Mormon Stories is a podcast for and about LDS Church members, it does not shy away from tackling the subject of members leaving that faith.
(review, feed)

Mr. Deity
God and his feeble attempts to manage a universe.
(review, feed)

Notes on History
Paul Stoetzel telling history his own way
(review, feed)

Torah Threads
Rabbi Paula introducing Torah, per portion.
(review, feed)

World Literature (HACC)
Rick Albright takes the Norton Anthology of World literature and sort of chronologically travels the world and its ages.
(review, feed)

Listening ideas for 4 April 2011

The History of Rome
In This Sign
Prior to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge Constantine experienced visions and dreams that promised him victory if he embraced Christianity.
(review, feed)

Stone Pages Archaeo News
Archaeo News Podcast 189
In collaboration with British Archaeological Jobs Resource
'Funny shaped stone' was Stone Age axe head
Ancient sites protection call on Scottish wind farm site
New discovery revises understanding about first North Americans
Iron Age hill fort still being quarried in Somerset
Cornish stone circle damaged by cattle
11,000-year-old settlement unearthed in Syria
Hand ax innovators reached Asia earlier than thought
3,000-year-old items discovered in southern China
'Tree Islands' in Florida, built on prehistoric trash?
Did Neanderthals discover fire?
The last Neanderthals - artifacts found in Greece
Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
(review, feed)

The Total Football Soccer Show
ET - Twente and Milan win, Team TSS lose, Dutch Wikipedia Game
Albert, Daryl and Taylor review Twente's table-topping 2-0 win over PSV in the Eredivisie, and offer some honest reactions to their first taste of Dutch league football this season. Second course is Milan's 2-0 win over Inter, featuring a goal-scoring, red-card-receiving cameo from Antonio Cassano. Third course is a heart-breaking 3-2 defeat for the back-in-action TSS 11-a-side team, and for dessert we have an all-Dutch player Wikipedia Game.
(review, feed)

EconTalk
Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency
Gavin Andresen, Principal of the BitCoin Virtual Currency Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about BitCoin, an innovative attempt to create a decentralized electronic currency. Andresen explains the origins of BitCoin, how new currency gets created, how you can acquire BitCoins and the prospects for BitCoin's future. Can it compete with government-sanctioned money? How can users trust it? What threatens BitCoin and how might it thrive?
(review, feed)

Rachel the poetess - Biocast

A new Israeli podcast has begun to publish: BioCast which does fifteen minute biographies of the most divergent characters - from scientists to pop musicians, biocast does them all. In addition, it has two tiny rubrics at the end of each show, one in which for half a minute little children associate on the theme of the show (for example on the question what is an explosion after the bio of Robert E. Oppenheim) and after that something that sounds like a Rabbi giving his Judaism inspired take on the same theme. I have not decided yet whether that last entry is serious or not. (feed)

The last chapter really stood out. It took on the biography of the Hebrew Poetess known as Rachel. The show really expressed a great love for her persona and for her poetry, replete with extensive readings and, obviously, song. For those who master the Hebrew language, this is really a must listen.

As with many beginner podcasts, Biocast is still struggling with audio quality. Not only are the recordings not yet up to speed, the total production has varying sound levels which makes for very irritating fluctuations in the volume. I am sure that will be sorted out in due time. And by all means, this should not scare you away from listening about Rachel.