These are all light(ish) podcasts—they explain some things and they’re very entertaining, but they don’t get into the really hard-core aspects of their particular fields. You will not hear the actual math equations, for example.
*Planet Money—economics—http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=94411890
*Radio Lab—general science—http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/
*The Skeptics Guide To The Universe—skepticism + misc science/atheism/rationality—http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
And obviously I can’t not mention my own podcast, translating Eliezer’s Methods of Rationality fic into audio format:
*Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality—pure awesomeness—http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/harry-potter-methods-rationality/id431784580?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
These are all light(ish) podcasts—they explain some things and they’re very entertaining, but they don’t get into the really hard-core aspects of their particular fields. You will not hear the actual math equations, for example.
*Planet Money—economics—http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=94411890
*Radio Lab—general science—http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/
*The Skeptics Guide To The Universe—skepticism + misc science/atheism/rationality—http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
And obviously I can’t not mention my own podcast, translating Eliezer’s Methods of Rationality fic into audio format:
*Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality—pure awesomeness—http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/harry-potter-methods-rationality/id431784580?ign-mpt=uo%3D4