Podcaster

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m always behind but that doesn’t worry me. Listed below are a selection of the ones I listen to. They originate from Australia, UK, USA and Canada. The starred ones are the ones I highly recommend but really I love all of these.

Technology

Buzz Out Loud — keep up to date with tech news
Search Engine — analysis of Canadian internet issues
* Spark — technology as it relates to life

Stories

* A Life Well Wasted — this is brilliant and also happens to be about video games
Life After Radio — my friend Sarah!
* StoryCorps — 90% chance of crying
Snap Judgment — story telling with a beat
The Moth — live story telling without notes
* This American Life — the classic

Science/Mathematics/Economics

More or Less: Behind the Stats — with the Undercover Economist, Tim Harford
* Planet Money — helps explain economics, US-focused but very interesting
* Radiolab — approaching science topics from all directions

Science/History/Skepticism/Philosophy/Thinking Stuff

* All In The Mind — psychology, neuroscience and the like
Skeptoid — looks skeptically at one pop culture topic per episode
* Sunday Night Safran — interview-based radio focusing on religion, politics and ethnicity