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Some long podcasts and talks are great, but honestly 90% of them could be a paragraph
Feb 2, 2024
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sorry most of these are history podcasts bc that’s mostly what i listen to but there’s a range of topics
last week tonight with john oliver (youtube) - he recaps the last week or a specific topic in a very understandable funny yet educational way
conflicted: a history podcast - for something a bit more serious in tone - its deep dives into different events in history especially those that don’t get much attention
book club (bbc) - discussions of books with the authors and a group of readers - so many episodes going back years to choose from
slow burn - season long deep dives into events like the clinton impeachment, lead up to the iraq war, rise of clarence thomas
anthropocene reviewed - has a more hopeful tone - john green reviewing and explaining different aspects of the world like orbital sunrises
contrapoints (youtube) - tackles different topics from a lot philosohical cultural sociological perspective - love the video on twilight
us & them - talks about decisive problems in the us from both sides my fav episode is the gun divide
colorless wonderland (youtube) - my fav book channel hes so enthusiastic and has such unique book recs
the morbid zoo (youtube) - deep dives into horror and thriller movies from sociological cultural perspective - she’s so smart and and well read my fav videos are on civil war and sound of freedom
nice try! - exploration of design and its interactions with people history government and more - highly recommend the episode about chandigarh or germania
radio lab - tackles interesting questions that combine law science history sociology - my fav episodes are playing god and eye in the sky
the audio long read - podcast form of long stories from the guardian on a bunch of different topics
more:
- throughline
- philosophy tube
- 99% invisible
- the experiment
- longform
- what roman mars can learn about con law
- codeswitch
- in our time
- audacious with chion wolf
- story corps
- the daily
- ologies
Sep 29, 2024
If you're tired of reading articles, or even books - you can just upload them onto NotebookLM to get an AI-podcasted "deep dive". I sampled an Economist piece and got 10 mins worth of surprisingly good repartee!
Step-by-step:
❶ Try NotebookLM" at Notebooklm.google.com
❷ Create a new notebook and upload your document.
❸ Once done, open the "Notebook guide" section and click "Generate" next to "Audio Overview".
❹ Wait a couple of minutes and you can play it anywhere.
Oddly, Google is also running a similar project, with Illuminate (currently only available for papers hosted on http://arXiv.org)
Sep 19, 2024
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when tv is too much but podcast is not enough
Jul 2, 2024
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It really has the feel of Internet renaissance
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It's like the cheapest way to travel. My favourite thing is to listen to this little christian radio station from Hokkaido, Japan: https://radio.garden/visit/shibetsu/bsinKAAH
Jan 30, 2024