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Call for Podcasts1 comment

Tiago wrote 1 week ago: These days I listen to a lot of podcasts. I cycle to work and the podcasts help to distract me from … more →

Tags: Web, econ talk, Podcasts, Popularization

My Top 6 List

twins4reading wrote 3 months ago: Here dear twin is my top 6 list (I’m too tired/uncreative to come up with 10….no, no wai … more →

Tags: Dead Souls, Lost, Brave New World, Top 6 list, Brady-iana, Chapped Hides, melvyn bragg

Rainey on T.S. Eliot - In Our Time1 comment

jenniferomahony8 wrote 4 months ago: Lawrence Rainey is an academic in the English department here at York. If there is one man who can m … more →

Tags: Poetry, Radio 4, rainey, TS Eliot

The potency of cheap paperback covers1 comment

stevenhartwriter wrote 4 months ago: When I started reading Ernest Hemingway, the editions that fell into my teenaged hands were the pap … more →

Tags: The potency of cheap paperback covers, The Reading Life, A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway, Scribner

Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary

akarkera wrote 5 months ago: This year we celebrate two anniversaries related to Charles Darwin. He was born on 12th February 180 … more →

Tags: Links, BBC Radio 4, Charles Darwin

It's fun to be smart!

allisfullofhope wrote 5 months ago: If you want to feel smart, but still want an easy read, check out Hemingway’s “In Our T … more →

Tags: Literature, College, Ernest Hemingway, Reading

Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Darwin

Dara wrote 6 months ago: Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1808, and in honor of his birthday Darwin lovers the world over … more →

Tags: Courses, Lectures, History, Science, University Podcast, Charles Darwin, Evolution

Ida Lupino: A Biography

conchordfly wrote 6 months ago: Ida Lupino (1918-1995) was more than a gorgeous image of film noir in the forties and fifties who st … more →

Tags: The Hard Way, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, William Donati

Was the human species pre-ordained?

ozymandias1 wrote 7 months ago: I think this is one of the most significant questions that mankind has ever addressed, and yet I ve … more →

Tags: Evolution, Stephen Jay Gould

iTunes: Hyperbole and Complaint, and a Podcast Plug

Karen wrote 7 months ago: Last year I got an iPod Shuffle, Second Generation (1GB) for Christmas. I didn’t know that I … more →

Tags: observations, Podcasts, iTunes, iPod shuffle, Second Generation, workaround, The Cyrkle, red rubber ball, melvyn bragg

Not as conscious as we think

Geoff Bilbrough wrote 8 months ago: The Guardian is reporting the success of the “invisible bear” Youtube clip (above) … more →

Tags: Science, brain, libet, awareness test, Neuroscience, Consciousness, invisible bear

Gödel's theorems on "In Our Time" by the BBC1 comment

mattheath wrote 8 months ago: Hat tip to Yemon Choi (via email) for this very interesting discussion of Gödel’s theorems on … more →

Tags: maths, media, semi-technical, General Audience, doing maths, Marcus du Sautoy, Gödel's theorems, Radio 4, Philosophy of Maths

In Our Time2 comments

jimsteel wrote 9 months ago: There may well be better radio shows than In Our Time, but they must be tucked away in some pretty o … more →

Tags: Melyvn Bragg, Radio 4, BBC

Parallels between Lysenkoism and AGW

omnologos wrote 1 year ago: (originally published in my climate blog “The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE“) T … more →

Tags: catastrophism, climate change, Environment, Politics, Science, Skepticism, Climate, Lysenko, Stalin

Parallels between Lysenkoism and AGW22 comments

omnologos wrote 1 year ago: Timely broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time” series, about NOTE UPDATED LINK Ly … more →

Tags: Dissent, AGW, Science, Skepticism, climate change, Global Warming, Climate, Lysenko, Stalin

BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage - A great radio travel show1 comment

oztraveller wrote 1 year ago: How did I not know about this radio show? Every week Radio 4’s Excess Baggage discusses a trav … more →

Tags: Misc, BBC, China, Laos, Luang Prabang, phrase books, radio, Toilets, Trains

Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the Social Contract

h1storym0nkey wrote 1 year ago: On In Our Time yesterday. Talking about the State o’ Nature. … more →

Tags: Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Radio 4, Thomas Hobbes

Nicene Creed3 comments

Christian Selvaratnam wrote 1 year ago: Melvyn Bragg hosts an informative discussion about the Nicene Creed today on BBC Radio 4’s In … more →

Tags: Faith, BBC, melvyn bragg, Nicene Creed, Radio 4

Genetic Mutation and Evolution

PeterM wrote 1 year ago: Just a quick post to let you know of a fascinating programme in an excellent series: today’s I … more →

Tags: Science, Philosophy, Evolution, Darwin, Radio 4, BBC, mutation


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