Podcasts

Wed, Jan 01, 2025 12:40

I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts this year, but it’s often hard to recall what stood out. So, I went back to my favorite app, AntennaPod, and picked some highlights worth …

Fri, Sep 27, 2024 10:39

In a recent episode of the BBC podcast “Thinking Allowed,” Grazia Ting Deng shares fascinating research on the spread of Chinese-owned coffee bars in Italy. As a former Bologna …

Mon, Aug 05, 2024 10:25

Tim Harford released another outstanding episode in his “Cautionary Tale” podcast series. The episode is called “Flying Too High: AI and AirFrance Flight 447” and tells a a …

2020-12-13T21:20:36+01:00

Today, after making home-made kimchi, my partner and I decided to listen to this podcast on Sinica about the history of the chile pepper in China. In the episode Kaiser Kuo talks …

2020-10-12T10:56:25+02:00

One of the nice things about podcasts is that usually you can usually still subscribe to them via RSS without being tracked. Advertisers however are trying to find new ways to …

2020-03-22T16:30:09+01:00

A quote from the Freakonomics podcast “How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War”: [Peter Timmer]: I used to ask my class, I’m talking 1985, “Where is the world’s largest …

2020-03-15T11:29:23+01:00

Listened to two great podcasts from the BCC series “In Our Time” related to political economic theory from the late 18th century: One podcast episode about “The Wealth of Nations”, …

2019-03-18T11:36:35+01:00

I have been getting into the ideas of critical theory with some great podcasts and videos. Stephen West from Philosophize This did an extensive 7 part series on The Frankfurt …

2019-02-19T14:56:20+01:00

Fantastic podcast from France Culture’s “Les chemins de la philosophie”. Professor Patrick Wotling discusses on the podcast the philosophy of Nietzche and how forgetting can be a …