146 podasts reviewed by Anne the Man

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:

1. 12 Byzantine Rulers
2. Africa (Stanford Travel)
3. Africa Past and Present
4. All Things Medieval
5. American Environmental and Cultural History (Berkeley ESPM 160AC)
6. American History before 1870
7. Ancient and Medieval Podcast
8. Are we alone?
9. BBC History Magazine
10. Big Ideas (TVO)
11. Bike Radar
12. Binge Thinking History
13. Bioethics podcast
14. the Biography Show (TPN)
15. Biota Podcast
16. Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University)
17. Bommel Hoorspel
18. British History 101
19. Car Talk
20. CATS 2 Culture and Technology Studies (UCSD)
21. Celtic Myth Podshow
22. CFR Podcast
23. Chronicles Radio Dispatches
24. Church History
25. Dan Carlin's Common Sense
26. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
27. David Kalivas' World History
28. Distillations
29. the Economist
30. Engines of our Ingenuity
31. English 117S (Berkeley)
32. Everything Lincoln
33. Existentialism in Literature and Film (Phil 7 - Berkeley)
34. Exploring Environmental History
35. F1Cast
36. Fresh Air (NPR)
37. From our own Correspondent (BBC)
38. Geography 130 (Berkeley)
39. Geography of World Cultures (Stanford)
40. Global Geopolitics (Stanford)
41. Hank's History Hour
42. Hannibal (Stanford)
43. Haring Podcast
44. Historical Jesus (Stanford)
45. History 106B (Berkeley)
46. History 167B (Berkeley)
47. History 181B (Berkeley)
48. History 2311 (Temple College)
49. History 2312 (Temple College)
50. History 4A (Berkeley)
51. History 5 (Anderson - Berkeley)
52. History 5 (Laqueur - Berkeley)
53. History 7B (Berkeley)
54. History according to Bob
55. History Network
56. History of Holland (Librivox)
57. History of Rome
58. History of the International System (Stanford)
59. History Podcast
60. Historypod
61. Historyzine
62. ICT Update
63. In Our Time (BBC)
64. In the Media (WNYC)
65. Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)
66. Interview Vrijdag (VPRO)
67. Introduction to German Politics (Oxford)
68. Introduction to Language (Arizona State University)
69. Irving Poetry podcast
70. ITV
71. Jung Podcast
72. KMTT
73. KQED Forum
74. Language (UCSD)
75. LSE Podcast
76. Marathon Interview (VPRO)
77. Matt's Today In History
78. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events (Virginia Tech)
79. Medieval Podcast
80. Midwest Writer
81. Military History Podcast
82. Missing Link
83. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain - UCSD)
84. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst - UCSD)
85. Muscular Judaism
86. My Three Shrinks
87. Napoleon 1O1 (TPN)
88. National Archives Podcast
89. Nonviolence (Berkeley PACS 164A)
90. Nonviolence today (Berkeley PACS 164B)
91. NRC FM
92. Only in America
93. Open Source
94. OVT (VPRO)
95. Oy Mendele!
96. Parnell's History Podcast
97. Peopletalk's Podcast
98. Physics for future Presidents (Berkeley)
99. Philosophy 103
100. Philosophy 7 (Berkeley)
101. Philosophy Bites
102. the Philosophy Podcast
103. Podcasts on Medieval Texts (Virginia Tech)
104. Podwatch
105. Prosperity show
106. Radiolab (WNYC)
107. Rav Dovid's
108. Redborne History
109. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155A)
110. Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155B)
111. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
112. Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley)
113. Rpgmp3
114. Science Friday (NPR)
115. Sex History Podcast
116. Shrink Rap Radio
117. Šimek 's Nachts (RVU)
118. the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
119. Social Innovation Conversations
120. Sonic Society
121. Speaking of Faith (APM)
122. Stanford U History
123. Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford)
124. Sunday Sundown
125. Talking Robots
126. TdF London
127. Teaching American History
128. TED Talks
129. That Podcast Show
130. the Things We Forgot To Remember
131. Times Talks
132. Tudorcast
133. UCLA Israel Studies
134. University Channel Podcast (aka UChannel Podcast)
135. Volkskrant Podcasts
136. We the People Stories
137. What is Judaism?
138. Wise Counsel
139. the Word Nerds
140. the Writing Show
141. Wynyfryd's meditation room
142. the Your History Podcast
143. Your Purpose Centered Life
144. zencast
145. zoem
146. האוניברסיטה המשודרת

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Reviewed this month on Anne is a Man!

Tomorrow I will bring out the updated list of reviewed podcasts, as usual on the first of the month. Before that, I would like to point out the new podcasts that were added this month.

In the category of History Podcasts:
Big Ideas (TVO), (review, site, feed)
TV lectures about various subjects on podcast.


All things Medieval, (review, site, feed)
Podcast on whatever is related to the late Middle Ages - not just dry history.

Church History, (review, site, feed)
Denominational history of the medieval Christian Church


Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University), (review, site, feed)
Podcast course covering elements of history from late Middle Ages to the early modern age.


Things We Forgot To Remember (BBC and Open University), (review, site, feed)
History podcast on how history is construed.

Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, (review, site, feed)
History of Christianity in the early apostolic phase.


In the category of Science:
Science Friday (NPR), (review, site, feed)
Popular science program

Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford), (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed)
Five lectures covering the techniques, the research, the law and the ethical issues of stem cell research.


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American Civil Rights Movement

I wanted to point you to two older Berkeley lecture series, that each in their own way pay attention to the American Civil Rights Movement. I like comparative listening and I can recommend it to everybody. There are drawbacks to both series, but I also think each have their quality.

Professor Michael Nagler's lecture series about Nonviolence (PACS 164A and PACS 164B) pay extensive attention to Mahatma Gandhi, but right after that move on to Martin Luther King. Professor Jenifer Burns' History 7B, consecutively rolls through the history of the US since the civil war and allots two lectures towards the end to the civil rights movement.

There were two things new to me. I have no idea how new to Americans, but to me as a non-American even with a legal training (which means I knew both the Plessy case and the Brown case), there was some new insight to gain. First of all, it is the fact that the movement already began in the 1930's and that the building up to the Brown cases was carefully planned and prepared. The famous marches and the profound appearance of Dr. King in the 1960's, which I identified as The movement, was more of a climax. The second aspect is one I could have reconstructed myself, but for which I needed Jennifer Burns to be pointed at. Since the abolition of slavery, under Lincoln, the blacks tended to favor the Republican party (as Lincoln was a Republican) and this also counted for the strength of the Democrats in the south. In the 1960's it is Lyndon Johnson, who moves the Democrats into the principles of Civil Rights, which means a shift of the Black vote towards Democrats, but simultaneously, a losing of ground in the south which is an established fact today.

More American History:
Whittaker Chambers,
Scopes Trial,
American History before 1870,
The American Constitution's British roots - BTHP,
US History - from Civil War to Present.

More Nonviolence:
Non Violence readers,
Non Violence.

Early Christianity - podcasts review

There is a new podcast I can add to the list that gives some insight in the history of early Christianity. I have to thank Dara from DIY Scholar (a great blog about educational podcasts, other audio and other media on the web).

It is unfortunate that a most widely extending overview, delivered by a historian is no longer available on the web: MMW3 from UCSD. Why UCSD removes their podcasted lectures immediately after the closing of the course is beyond me. Maybe they think only their students are to be served, but in that respect they are alone in the world of academic podcasts. Other institutions offer a formidable backlog for us to browse from.
As to early Christianity, the content is largely delivered by theologians. The first era to discuss would be the life of Jesus, or Yeshua, himself. This is covered in The Historical Jesus, by Thomas Sheehan from Stanford (feed). Not only is this an excellent series, you can also access a lot of the source material on-line, free of charge.

The next phase is the early apostolic period. This is covered by the podcast DIY Dara pointed me to. Canadian professor Philip Harland analyzes Paul's letters, Acts and the Gospels and other sources where available in a historical reconstruction under the title Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. This is a very accessible series. Again there is a lot of theology, but the historical construction stands in the foreground.

The widest range I know of is Covenant Seminar's Church History, which kicks off with the early apostolic period, quickly moves on to the early church years and eventually ending before the Reformation. In this series the theology, doesn't necessarily overshadow the history, but the narrative and lecture carries very noticeably the Presbyterian signature of the producer.

Relevant other reviews:
Church History,
World history guided by the religions,
The Nicene Creed - IOT,
Historical Jesus - Tom Sheehan, Stanford.

The Ethics of Stem Cell Research

I have discovered an earlier enhanced podcast from Stanford University on Stem Cells, Straight Talk About Stem Cells (feed), but I started with Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (feed), because it by virtue of its title promised to touch upon the ethics involved - and that is where I want to get at. I have written about the subject before and bumped into a problem that roughly goes as follows: you either have an ethical podcast, that rejects Stem Cell Research on religious grounds and doesn't explain much about the technical side of it, or you have a technical podcast that implicitly approves, but doesn't discuss much in the way of justifications.

Out of the five lectures in this podcast, only the last lecture really attempted to bridge the gap, but also the first four are rather interesting just the same. To have the basic technique explained (with pictures), helps a lot. The lecture on the various regulations also was instructive. The guest lectures of one specialist and one patient who had undergone stem cell therapy, were a very instructive.

Even if there isn't much in depth ethics discussed, at least the concrete examples of techniques, research and therapies, allow for giving a good inventory and some narrowing down into very specific ethical issues. In short, of all the podcasts I have heard in this subject, this one ranks among the very best.

More bioethics:
Human rights and the body,
Life and bio-engineering - podcast review,
Bioethics without Christ, please,
A useful map into Bio-Ethics,
Stem Cell Research: Science, Ethics, and Prospects,
Stem Cells - Biology and Politics.