Podcast Diet: Entertain & Educate your Brain
Monday, March 21st, 2011
A podcast diet probably won’t make your hips shrink to a size 6 or your muscles fill out that bright yellow lycra bodysuit… and it certainly won’t contribute to better regularity of your number two. However, a balanced podcast diet offers the opportunity for a broad exposure to knowledge and opinion. It can entertain and it can educate.
Several years ago my limited brain, such as it is, became a little too tired of HTML and CSS coding to the point where I could do neither unless a pair of headphones were able to invoke noise into my ear canals. That sounds harsher than it probably was at the time but listening to podcasts grew on me… and I pretty well never code HTML or CSS anymore unless my life depends on the outcome.
This year I’ve also evolved into loading these podcasts onto my mp3 player for trips on public transport, pet walking and domestic chores like washing and drying the dishes. So I consume a great deal of podcasts over the week… I thought it worth sharing the main ones.
General Information, Facts & Brain Entertainment
My favourite podcasts tend to offer up unique content for my ever-active brain to digest. This ranges from the diversity of Radio Lab looking at scientific and cultural phenomenon; Tank Riot are some crazy arsed media and douchebag outing guys from Wisconsin; The Memory Palace simply has awesome five minute obscure morsels about American history; the Moth podcast are stories told live by real people; Snap Judgement are stories by people of decisions made at a critical moment; and, A History of the World in 100 Objects are 100 episodes about objects of art, design and cultural significance and their historic context.
