Wednesday, November 30, 2011

What are your favorite podcasts?

Time to vote on your favorite podcasts (besides Brain Food Dude). Leave them in the comment box, and help us decide the best podcasts of 2011.

Brain Food Dude #42

The 42nd episode of our podcast is now available. Listen here, or subscribe on itunes.

Jazz & The Cold War

This week on To the Best of Our Knowledge, they did a had a great segment on how jazz was used as a weapon during the cold war.

Listen here.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

A Case for Multitasking

On Harvard Business Review's podcast this week, an interview with Cathy Davidson, author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/23/11.

Do too many kids go too college?

Do too many kids go to college? Intelligence Squared addressed this question in a great debate.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/21/11.

Loss Aversion

Losing feels worse, than winning feels good. How does this simple fact effect the way we invest, and the way our economies work? Planet Money explores this topic.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/22/11.

Tough Guys

The State We're In Podcast did a cool show last week titled "tough guys." The whole show is great, but I especially enjoyed the first segment about "snatchback," or the business of rescuing kidnapped children abroad.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/25/11.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Brain Food Dude #41

The 41st episode of our podcast is now available. Listen here, or subscribe on itunes.

Turkey

You will never look at turkeys the same, after you hear this episode of freakonomics.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/16/11.

Men

Why are men different than women? This week on Econ Talk, a great conversation about gender differences, with Roy Baumeister.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/14/11.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

J. Edgar Hoover

On Point had a great discussion about the good, the bad, and the ugly about J. Edgar Hoover.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/10/11.

Meriwether Lewis

Clay Jenkinson, host of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, just wrote a book about Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis & Clark expedition). Listen to Clay discuss his book, and Meriwether Lewis, on this week's episode of The Thomas Jefferson Hour.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/13/11.

I want my MTV

On Studio 360 this week they discuss the history of MTV, and how it affected music in its time.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/11/11.

History of the High 5

I always figured the high 5 had just been around forever. Like the wheel, or god, or The Simpsons. Turns out people have only been highing fives for a few decades, and on this episode of Radiolab they track it all down to the first high five ever (kind of).

Listen here, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/15/11.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Brain Food Dude #40

Episode #40 of our podcast is now available. Listen here, or subscribe on itunes.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dogs & Wolfs

How exactly did dogs evolve from wolfs? Find out on Fresh Air.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/8/11.

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro is a bad ass journalist. Check out this interview with her on the On Point podcast.

Listen here, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/8/11.

Our Brains Have Tons of Tiny Parts

The human brain has a lot of small parts. More than even an ipod. Jeff Lichtman wants to make a map of our brains. Learn more on Science Friday.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/4/11.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Seth Shoshtak is a scientist for the SETI Institute. He looks for life in outer space. Listen to an interview with Seth on Point of Inquiry.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 10/31/11.

The Campaign Game

This week on Here's the Thing, Alec Baldwin interviews political strategist and legend, Ed Rollins.

Listen here, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/7/11.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Brain Food Dude #39

The 39th episode of our podcast is out now. Listen here, or subscribe to us on itunes.

Campaign Finance

Planet Money is doing a series on campaign finance, and just put out there first episode.

Listen here, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/1/11.

The Iliad

Who exactly was Homer, author of The Iliad and The Odyssey? The answer may be more complicated than you think. The New Yorker: Out Loud podcast had an interesting discussion about the Iliad, and the true Homer.

Listen now, download on itunes, or read the full article in The New Yorker.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

News

On the Media did an entire show dedicated to news.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 10/28/11.

The Happiest Man on Earth

On Being interviewed scientist turned Buddhist Monk, Matthieu Ricard this week. Here what the so called "happiest man on earth" has to say about spirituality, compassion, and happiness.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 10/27/11.

History of the Relationship Between Science & Religion

This month Backstory did a podcast about the history of the relationship between science and religion.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/1/11.

Big Waves

To the Best of Our Knowledge did a podcast all about forces of nature, including a segment on big waves.

Listen now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 10/29/11.