Everyone was out of town this weekend which allowed me to
play the opening riff of Blackbird over and over for 20 minutes, but it also
gave me a chance to gorge on podcasts. I listened to them while I organized the
garage, cleaned long neglected parts of the house, worked out and drove to and
from my interactions with the outside world.
In addition to my regulars here are three new favorites:
Berkeley's History
5, the history of Europe from Renaissance to the present. The course is
taught by Carla Hesse who is direct, charming and alive. I even liked listening
to her housekeeping section at the start of her first lecture because in it she
outlined how to learn. "Don't be frustrated by weirdness," she said." Weirdness
is the moment when you learn something." Carla Hesse
KCRW's To the Point on the Bush tax cuts, the
deficit and the election. I like Warren Olney. I've been on his show. That's
not why I'm recommending this. He had good guests and touched on all the
important political and economic issues. The section on electric cars was a
bonus.
David Hacket Fischer talks about George Washington's
crossing of the Delaware as a part of the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History podcast series. Perhaps I liked this because
I know so little about this period.
I downloaded all of these through iTunesU but you can also
get them from their various web sites.
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