Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion. I do it while taking my daily (more or less) 3 mile walk, while I’m “plodding along”.
While there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of great podcasts from other sources, the ones sponsored via public radio have been vetted through the worthy objectives of the medium. Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently. I hope you might find these suggestions — in roughly 90 minute bites -- helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium. __ __ “What influences your inner voice? Controlling 'chatter' part two” ALL IN THE MIND - ABC RN (Radio National) That voice inside your head - where does it come from? We bring back a topic that was one of our most popular for a long awaited part two. Today, what shapes your internal chatter. Our original episode on chatter is called "Controlling the chatter in your head", if you liked this episode you'll love that one! Guest: Professor Ethan Kross, Professor of Psychology and Management, University of Michigan; Author, 'Chatter: The Voice in our Head, Why It Matters and How To Harness It.’ (29”) <https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/allinthemind/inner-voice-chatter-culture/103512920> (links for both programs) “Algorithmic homogeny – why everything looks and feels the same” FUTURE TENSE - ABC RN (Radio National) Algorithmic feeds are meant to personalise our online experiences, but increasingly they're flattening our culture and fostering a dull conformity, according to best-selling author Kyle Chayka. And the influence they exert on our lives is increasingly physical not just digital. Also, data scientist Gloria Mark who has crunched the numbers on how our attention spans have fared over the past decade or so. If you can keep focused, you might find it fascinating. Guests: Professor Gloria Mark – data scientist and psychologist, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine; Kyle Chayka – author and contributing writer for The New Yorker. (29”) <https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/futuretense/algorithmic-homogeny-why-everything-looks-and-feels-the-same/103512916> "How to end conflict—The art of peace making” REAR VISION - ABC RN (Radio National) It’s a truism of peace talks that we’re not negotiating with our friends but rather our enemies. And when most of our enemies have been designated as terrorist and murderers it’s not an easy task. How have we’ve ended violent conflicts in the past and are there lessons we can learn from previous peace negotiations. Guests: Youssef Mahmoud, Senior Advisor at the International Peace Institute. He was a United Nation Under-Secretary-General and headed peace operations in Burundi, the Central African Republic and Chad. Randall Lesaffer, Professor of Legal History at KU University in Leuven, Belgium and author of The Twelve Years' Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War, and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century, and Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One. Philip Kastner, Senior Lecturer in international law at the University of Western Australia and author of numerous publications on law and peace, including Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict. Luxshi Vimalarajah, senior mediator advisor at the Berghof Foundation. She has been involved in peace negotiations in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Turkey, Yemen, North Macedonia and Columbia. (29”) <https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/rear-vision/103512910> — — A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published in most editions of the CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX). For further information and membership information, go to www.cidx.ca John Figliozzi Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide” NEW!!!! 11th EDITION now available from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.com.au <http://amazon.com.au/> Constructive reviews from purchasers welcomed on the Amazon site. _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list Internetradio@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to internetradio-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
