Finding good podcasts is really difficult. Not because they are rare but because, like everything online, there is too much to search through. Martin (from the blog with the impossible name Aardvarchaeology) has asked his readers to recommend some better podcasts for him to subscribe to.
So, Dear Reader, you clearly aren’t a moron: in aggregate, Aard’s readers should be a much better authority than the unwashed masses when it comes to podcasts. Please tell me your favourite podcasts with a sentence or two explaining what they’re about…
The list makes a good starting point for those who are looking for better podcasts. My own suggestion to Martin’s list was the University of Bath Public Lecture Podcast. The series features leading names from the worlds of science, humanities and engineering talking about the latest research in their field.
Some of my favorites are:
General Sir Rupert Smith: The utility of force
Professor Allan Kellehear: The history of death and dying
Steve Jones: Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right
Lord Desai: Why is poverty persistent?
Professor Jacque Lynn Foltyn: Dead sexy: The corpse is the new “porn star” of pop culture