Podcasts

meganbmoore just won an mp3 player, so I listed some podcasts I listen to on a semi-regular basis in her comments. Reposting here.

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Podcasts I listen to:

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ <-- Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, science and skepticism podcast. Usually about 1 hr 20 min. Weekly

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/5x5/index.asp <-- Skeptic's Guide 5x5, science and logic, About 5-7 minutes. Weekly

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php <-- NPR has a multitude of podcasts of its shows - I listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (news comedy, weekly, 1 hour), This American Life (1 hr, weekly), Planet Money (news and commentary on the economic crisis, 20-30 min, almost daily, I don't listen to most of them XD), Hmmmmm...Krulwich on Science (2-5 min, weekly), and occasionally Car Talk (1 hr, weekly).

KERA is my local NPR station, and they put out KERA's Think (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183228 - daily, 1 hr, interviews with all sorts of people and topics, I just download the ones that seem most interesting) and Everything You Ever Wanted To Know ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=7070852 - weekly, 1 hr, local call-in show to ask questions about ANYTHING).

WNYC's RadioLab - http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ - is a seasonal (six shows a season) weekly radio show on science topics with a unique and interesting (to me, at least) editing style.

http://www.writingexcuses.com/ <-- Writing Excuses, weekly, 15 min. Podcast on writing with a focus on SF/F/H.

http://www.anythingghost.com/ <-- Anything Ghost (20 min-1.5 hours, usually about 45-60 min, put out whenever he gets enough stories) Podcast with the host just reading ghost stories listeners send him. I'm a hardcore skeptic at heart, but the anthropologist in me loves hearing ghost stories. :D Part of the charm of this is the host's inability to pronounce names and places.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh <-- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. 30 min- 1 hour, put out whenever he gets the time. Past episodes available by download or on CD. I LOVE this guy's history shows. He's a history fanboy and it shows. :D He actually MADE ME INTERESTED IN THE COLD WAR, that's how good he is.

Dan Carlin also puts out a political podcast on a weeklyish basis called Dan Carlin's Common Sense (http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/cs 30 min-1 hour) which is a refreshing breath of fresh air from both the raving lunatic right-wingers and raving lunatic left-wingers, as Carlin seems to be a raving lunatic moderate. I don't listen to every show, just one every now and then.

I also listen to a variety of paranormal podcasts because the anthropologist in me is fascinated by the subculture (if I were still in anthropology now, I'd be rarin' at the bit to do an ethnography of a local ghost hunters' club), but I don't inflict those on other people because if you're not a believer and don't have another reason to listen, they're infuriating. :D (But I'll list them on request!)

SIIIIIICK

Still sick. Went to work for 2.5 hours - the other ref librarian arrived, took one look at me, and told me to go the hell home. So myrialux and I went out to lunch. :D (Well, I needed to get OUT OF THE HOUSE.) And I spent the day watching TV, updating podcasts, and playing Bejeweled II, then myrialux brought me stuff to make cocoa with. And tomorrow I shall have some.

Now off to bed for a fitful nights' sleep as I fall asleep, then wake myself up coughing like mad. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Oh, and I've just realized I've lost the higher registers of my voice. Let's see if that trend continues, shall we?