Science Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of Science podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. All my reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label science.

Distillations (review, site, feed)
Chemistry podcast. Varied program with Chemistry Education, Chemistry facts and history.

Engines of our Ingenuity (review, site, feed)
Short podcasts shedding an ironic light on progress, technological and otherwise

Are we alone? (review, site, feed)
Scientific musings around extraterrestrial life. That is, astrobiology.

Bioethics podcast (review, site, feed)
A podcast about ethics in the realm of medical technology and bio-technology with a clear fundamentalist Christian signature.

Talking Robots (review, site, feed)
A podcast about robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Talking Robots podcasts take around 20-30 minutes and contain interviews, very proficiently conducted by Sabine Hauert with specialists from the field.

Biota Podcast (review, site, feed)
A collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users.

Ape Reality (review, site, feed)
Ape Reality is a free 10-15 minute audio podcast relating to the Noble Ape development and the Noble Ape Simulation recorded by Noble Ape creator, Tom Barbalet.

Physics for future Presidents (review, site, feed)
Also known as Descriptive Introduction to Physics. What every world leader needs to know about physics. Professor Richard Muller shows an amazing talent translating physics to daily practice.

Radiolab (review, site, feed)
WNYC's radio program about science.

Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (review, site, feed)
Discussion Panel style Podcast dedicated to the promotion of science and reason, the investigation of paranormal and pseudo scientific claims, improved standards of education for science and critical thinking skills.

Science Friday (NPR), (review, site, feed)
Popular science program

Replaceable You (Stanford) (review, site, feed)
Stanford's third lecture series about stem cell research and all that is involved in the field. This series concentrates on the subject of regenerative medicine.

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.

Straight talk about stem cells (Stanford) (review, site, feed)
Technology, law and ethics around stem cell research.

In Our Time, (review, site, feed).
BBC four's program about the history of thought. Show host Melvyn Bragg meets weekly with three outstanding academicians to discuss subjects varying from historic persons and occurrences to scientific and philosophical issues in their historical perspective. As far as quality is concerned this podcast ranks among the very best. The only drawback comes from it being a radio program: it is not flexible to the length. It is also a pity the feed offers no more than the last show. But the on line archives disclose every show.

The Missing Link, (review, site, feed).
A history podcast that delivers two essays per issue. The aim is to portray the history of science, but does not do so in a programmatic way, the essays are stand alone subjects.

Wise Counsel, (review, site, feed).
Dr. Dave has been hired by Mental Help Net, to do the interviews with professionals or clients and within a professional and academic version of psychology.

Dutch podcasts - podcasts in het Nederlands

Deze post wordt regelmatig bijgewerkt. Het geeft een overzicht van de Nederlandstalige podcasts die ik ken en mijn gedachten erover. Alle recensies over Nederlandse podcasts (en ander Nederlandstalig materiaal op dit blog) is te vinden onder het steekwoord Nederlands, of NL radio.

Bommel Hoorspel
De verhalen van Bommel verwerkt tot een hoorspel voor kinderen. Helemaal niet slecht gedaan, maar voor de volgroeide lezertjes geen luistervergelijk met het leesplezier.

Haring Podcast
Filosoof Bas Haring op radio (en TV?) bezig met het populariseren van filosofische vraagstukken. Mag je masturberen in de trein, bijvoorbeeld.

Interview Vrijdag
Podcast van Het radio 1 programma De Ochtenden, meer in het bijzonder het Vrijdagse gedeelte van de VPRO. In principe een interview, maar in de praktijk meer dan dat.

Marathon Interview
Een van de meest succesvolle uitvindingen van de VPRO radio. Bestaat al sinds 1986. De nieuwe interviews zijn tot podcasts verwerkt, maar stuk voor stuk, wordt ook het archief ontsloten. Inmiddels zijn de jaargangen 1986 - 1989 beschikbaar, met onvergetelijk materiaal daar tussen.

OVT
Het radioprogramma over de onvoltooid verleden tijd. Het beste zijn de thema-uitzendingen. Nu net is er een serie gestart naar aanleiding van het onvolprezen boek van Geert Mak In Europa. Daarnaast hadden we boeken die de wereld veranderden en vele andere rubrieken.

Simek 's Nachts
Interviewprogramma van Martin Simek. In de podcast wordt in verband met de rechten de muziek weggeknipt. In de stream volledig te beluisteren.

Geschiedewistjedatjes (review, site, feed)
Zeer simpele geschiedenis podcast. Kleine weetjes in minder dan twee minuten per podcast.

Sterke Geschiedenis (review, site, feed)
Kris kras door de wereldgeschiedenis met Tom Tacken, een groot verteltalent.

Veertien Achttien (review, site, feed)
Tom Tacken vertelt de eerste wereldoorlog in korte biografietjes

Hoor! Geschiedenis (review, site, feed)
Elke dag een stapje verder in de chronologie van de geschiedenis van Nederland en de Nederlandse cultuur. Podcasts van ongeveer vijf minuten, uitgebracht op elke werkdag door de ervaren verteller Feico Houweling.

De Geschiedenis Podcast (review, site, feed)
Podfaded geschiedenis podcast in door Hugo Teerds. Er zijn maar drie episodes. Het meest de moiete waard vind ik de aflevering over de Wetten van Hammurabi.

Volkskrant Podcasts
Zoals buitenlandse kranten doet ook de Volkskrant aan podcasts. Bij gelegenheid van Het WK en de Tour heb ik de podcasts geprobeerd en ben er danig op afgeknapt. Maar er is meer.

NRC FM
Een wekelijks gesprek, opgenomen in Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.

Podcasts van en met Maurice Zondag:
Sunday Sundown en Podsafe Sec
Over en met podsafe muziek.

F1Cast en F1MiniCast
Over autosport.

Zoem
Pyschologie podcast waarin Rob Zondag aan het woord komt en de ins en outs van de IMET techniek bespreekt, een behandelmethode voor mensen die lijden aan angst-, dwang-, eet- of identiteitsproblemen. De stichting IMET heeft ook een betaalde audio voor cursisten in de IMET opleiding.

ICT Update
Dit is een panel stijl cast die min of meer wekelijks uitkomt met een klein uur gesprek over allerlei nieuwsfeiten in de ICT (high tech noemen we dat in Israel) die in Nederland de koppen hebben gehaald. Met Mark Baars, Jasper Kimmel en Maurice Zondag.

Hebrew Podcasts - פודקאסטים בעברית

Hebrew podcasts:

Making History - עושים היסטוריה (review, site, feed)
Hebrew podcast about history, with an emphasis on the history of science and of technology.

קטעים בהיסטוריה (review, site, feed)
Pieces of History, a Hebrew podcast. Selected topics in history.


מה שהיה היה (review, site, feed)A Hebrew podcast from the Hebrew University's radio station 'Har Hatzofim' in Jerusalem. What is supposed to be a history podcast, turns out to have an special artistic quality.

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German Podcasts - Podcasts auf deutsch

Skythen-Podcast (review, site, feed)
Very extensive promotional podcast for an exhibition on the Scythians.

Leben und Überleben mit 45+ (review, site, feed)
Audio-blog of life after having had cancer

Junggesellenblog (review, site, feed)
Audio-blog of a student who tries to get some studying done in between watching TV and making podcasts

Meiky's Podcast Show (review, site, feed)
Comedy podcast which includes an audio-play, but around the play delivers hilarious insights and reaction to listeners

Das Rätsel der verschollenen Schatulle (review, site, feed)
The audio play that goes with Meiky's Podcast

Geschichtspodcast (Chronico) (review, site, feed)
Promotional podcast of Chronico Magazine, focussed on the Middle Ages as wide as they come.

Volkis Stimme (review, site, feed)
Last week's news recounted with a comical touch.

Schlaflos in Muenchen (review, site, feed)
The legendary audio blog  by Annik Rubens.

Psychology, Political science and Sociology podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of Psychology, Political Science and Sociology podcasts .

Shrink Rap Radio, (review, site, feed).
A podcast series hosted by Dr. David van Nuys, who interviews mainly psychology professionals and the occasional client, or other non-professionals somehow involved in the field of psychology. In addition, on every edition of Shrinkrapradio contains Dr. Dave addressing his audience establishing a community feel to the regular podcast listeners. The podcast represents Dr. Dave's personal preferences in psychology subjects, heavily leaning on Jung and spiritually characterized psychology.

Wise Counsel, (review, site, feed).
Wise Counsel is a spin off from Shrinkrapradio. Dr. Dave has been hired by Mental Help Net, to do the interviews with professionals or clients and within a more stringent professional and academic version of psychology, if compared to SRR. Also there is no community investment.

Jung Podcast
A monologue style podcast featuring Canadian psychologist John Betts, teaching the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung.

Zoem
Dutch psychotherapy podcast. Rob Zondag komt aan het woord over de ins en outs van de IMET techniek, een behandelmethode voor mensen die lijden aan angst-, dwang-, eet- of identiteitsproblemen. De stichting IMET heeft ook een betaalde audio voor cursisten in de IMET opleiding.

Psychology courses at Berkeley; recorded lectures.
General Psychology Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Psychology of Personality Fall 2004, Fall 2005
Buddhist Psychology Fall 2005
Clinical Psychology Spring 2006, Fall 2006
Social Psychology Fall 2006, Spring 2007 (I tried this one, but dropped out)
Drugs and Behavior Fall 2006
Human Emotion Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Research and Data Analysis in Psychology Spring 2007
Developmental Psychology Fall 2007

Podcasts that touch upon psychological subjects, or have psychological implications
In Our Time The history of thought
Prosperity show Your relation with money
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe Panel podcast dedicated to taking on superstition, pseudo-science and the gullibility of the public.
Simek s'Nachts Dutch Podcast. Martin Simek interviewt en legt de nadruk op de psychologie van de geinterviewde. Sinds enige maanden is dit geen podcast meer, maar wel als stream te beluisteren.
UC Podcast University lectures held at various academies all around the world, occasionally engaging in psychology.
Your Purpose Centered Life Podcast about how to establish meaning in your life.
zencast Buddhist podcast.

Religion and Spirituality podcasts

BMS World Mission (review, site, feed)
A show made for the partners of the Baptist Mission world wide. A rather light radio style program with items related to missionary work.

Chronicles Radio Dispatches (review, site, feed)
Interview podcast from Shambala Buddhist center in Canada.

KMTT Torah Podcast (review, site, feed)
From a yeshiva in Israel, KMTT delivers podcasts in both Hebrew and English on a wide variety of Jewish subjects. Teachings are delivered by different rabbis.

Muscular Judaism (review, site, feed)
A podcast delivering the recordings of five lectures delving into the story of Samson and trying to interpret this unusual figure in Judaism.

Only in America (review, site, feed)
Larry Josephson's podcast series containing to threads, one is the history of American Jewry and the other is a set of interviews with leading Jews today, such as Peter Geffen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Rav Dovid (review, site, feed)
New York rabbi David Bendory lectures on a wide variety of Jewish subjects; Halachah, Kashrut, Torah and so on.

Speaking Of Faith (APM) (review, site, feed)
APM's nondenominational radio program with Krista Tippett, touching on religious and spiritual subjects, mostly in interviews with very interesting guests.

Time Out for Truth (review, site, feed)
New Age philosophy on how to live the good life, by examples of a lot of movies

What is Judaism? (review, site, feed)
An old podcast, which unfortunately has podfaded. Journalist Larry Josephson speaks with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch about Jewish Holidays, tradition and spirituality.

Wynyfryd's Meditation Room (review, site, feed)
Pagan Wynyfryd collects meditations from all sources and turns them into audio mixed with appropriate music. A podcast that delivers irregularly, but each meditation is (of course) intended for repetition.

Your Your Purpose Centered Life (review, site, feed)
Life coach Eric Maisel presents his philosophy for Authentic Living; a life in which one chooses and defines meaning actively rather than find or receive it externally.

Zencast (review, site, feed)
Dharma teachings by Gil Fronsdal and others. Live from a Buddhist center in California.

Church History (review, site, feed)
A podcast by Covenant Seminary (a theological institution of the Presbyterian Churches of America (PCA)) on Church History, which covers the history from the early apostolic period until the Reformation.

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.

Historical Jesus (review, site, feed)
Lecture series, including syllabus and link to the central book, by theology professor Thomas Sheehan about the Historical Jesus. Sheehan carefully takes the listener through the intricacies of dissecting Scripture to the most authentic sources to Yeshua of Nazareth himself.

Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (review, site, feed)
A lecture series that manages to reveal a world of investigations and interpretations of the Bible's content, covering an enormous amount of it. Each story could receive an entire course in itself.

Pope podcast (review, site, feed)
An amateur podcast that covers the history of the papacy pope by pope.

Religion and Law in US, HIUS 155A - UCSD (review, site, feed)course, taught by Professor Michael Parrish, teaches the legal and religious foundations of the American Society until the Civil War.

Religion and Law in US, HIUS 155B - UCSD (review, site, feed)course, taught by Professor Michael Parrish, teaches the legal and religious foundations of the American Society from the Civil War until the present.

Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (review, site, feed)
Canadian professor Philip Harland analyzes Paul's letters, Acts and the Gospels and other sources where available in a historical reconstruction

Bio-ethics podcast (review, site, feed)
A podcast about ethics in the realm of medical technology and bio-technology with a clear fundamentalist Christian signature.

Prosperity show (review, site, feed)
A suspended podcast about money in our lives.