Podcasts | In Deep with Angie Coiro. Dr. Louise Aronson on Elderhood Show #247 | July 13, 2019 | Elderhood: old age. Many of us can expect to live more years as “elders” than in either childhood or adulthood, a span of up to 40 years, yet that era of our lives has long been treated as more a symptom and burden—elderhood outright ignored or demonized. In her extraordinary new book Elderhood, already praised by readers like Mary Pipher and Abraham Verghese, Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson offers an honest and full-hearted re-examination of the later decades, with all of their joys and frustrations. Show #243 | June 15, 2019 | Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work involves acts of close observation, whether it’s birdwatching, collecting screen shots, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce. BBC Radio 5 live - Headliners - Downloads. Rough Translation NPR. Only Artists - Downloads.
Four Thought - Downloads. Amy Chua – Think Again - a Big Think Podcast #137 – U.S. and Them. Subscribe on Google Play, Stitcher, or iTunes Come talk to us on Twitter: @bigthinkagain I don’t know about you, but for me, middle school was horrible. I arrived at an all-male school in a still very homophobic era as a small, nervous, Michael Jackson fanatic. Don’t worry - I’m going somewhere with this. For three years, life was hell. My guest today is Yale Law professor Amy Chua, who shook the Internet up a few years back with her book BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER. In her powerful new book POLITICAL TRIBES: GROUP INSTINCT AND THE FATE OF NATIONS, Amy points out that long past high school, group instinct is much stronger than Americans generally like to admit. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Michael Norton on the link between money and happiness, Derek Thompson on “coolness” About Think Again - A Big Think Podcast: Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds.
You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. Radiolab. BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts. BBC Radio 4 - Wireless Nights - Downloads. The Listening Project. Snap Judgment. StoryCorps. Diary of a teenage Saudi girl: the podcasts you should listen to this weekend | Television & radio. Here’s what we enjoyed this week. Let us know what you’re listening to, and what you’d like us to feature, in the comments.
Majd’s diary Majd Abdulghani has captivated podcast-lovers this week with her earnest account of two years of her life in Saudi Arabia (masterfully condensed into half an hour). Abdulghani was selected from more than 1,000 applicants to an NPR contest, and if you listen you’ll instantly see why. In this radio diary, she speaks of her dreams of becoming a scientist, and her parents’ hopes of arranging her marriage. So here’s what happened. Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl by Radio DiariesDuration: 33 minutesListen here / Subscribe hereCome for Majd’s honesty, stay for her charisma. Silent evidence This is a podcast about intimacy, love, sex and bodies – or as they put it, about “the things you feel, but you don’t know how to name: the bliss and banality of being in love, and the wild diversity of the human heart”.
Stories from the Supreme Court. BBC World Service - Meet the People Fixing the World. Self Drives: The Trabant. Snap Judgment Podcast. BBC World Service - Witness. Moral Maze. Thought For The Day. Beyond Belief. BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View - Downloads. Making History. In Our Time. Philosopher’s Arms. BBC World Service Documentaries.
Documentary of the Week. The Radio 3 Documentary. The Educators – ideas about learning. Woman’s Hour Daily Podcast. The Conversation. Forum - A World of Ideas. BBC World Service - The Inquiry - Downloads. BBC World Service - Outlook. Arts and Ideas. A History of Ideas. Thinking Allowed. Damn Interesting. Distraction Pieces Podcast — SPEECH DEVELOPMENT RECORDS.
The Nerdist Podcast. Podcasts and Downloads - Outlook. Fresh Air. Ian McMillan Presents the Verb. Word of Mouth. Wireless Nights with Jarvis Cocker. Short Cuts with Josie Long. A Point of View: Clive James. Triangulation.