Two Podcasts I <3
By fragmad • Oct 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pm • Category: AudioThis is a quick entry with short descriptions of two podcasts I love, adore and recommend to most people. Mostly because I’ve cut down my listening to podcasts since I finished my work placement a year ago. But these are two of about 15 that survived the cut.
Science is the most important thing in our modern world. Who can deny this? I am using a computer to write this, and, you are using a computer to read this. A product of science/technology. Truly if science is a key component of our lives then it is the duty of every sane and intelligent person to attempt to keep up to date with the latest developments.
That is very hard. It is almost a full time job. Reading aggregated news sites such as Slashdot and skimming “New Scientist” once a week can only really help so much. Reading the science section of your daily newspaper can also help. But one of the best resources I have found is a podcast produced by my newspaper - The Manchester Guardian. It is normally about half an hour long; although the podcast I’ve just started listening to is 40 minutes long. It’s got an interview with Marcus du Sautoy who is a professor of mathematics from Oxford University, and the presenter of “The Story of Maths”. Which currently showing on BBC4 and is the most fascinating documentary on UK TV at the moment.
The podcast has covered everything from Bad Science, climate change, quantum physics, the “Large Hadron Collider”; in short everything that is happening in science today.
I’m a fanatic roleplaying gamer. A total and unashamed geek when it comes to rolling the dice and crawling the dungeons. One of the podcasts I listen to about tabletop gaming is 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction. I started to listen to this in August 2006 and have been listening to each and every podcast produced. It has quite likely pushed me into buying quite a few books (most of which I can’t afford) and the advice presented in several of the podcasts have improved my gaming. Probably this podcast (along with another Sons of Kryos) contributed significantly to my awesome experience at the 2008 Student Nationals; where I played the best 9 hours of table-top gaming of my life.
It’s a podcast that highlights new things. I love new things. It’s a good podcast.
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Go listen to the first one podcast even if you don’t like science, you’ll be surprised how accessible science can be. If you used to play Dungeons and Dragons, and then stopped, take a listen to “2d6 Feet”, you might find something to drag you back into playing games.
Peace and love bombs,
Will.
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