[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 337

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion.  I do it while “power walking” (most) every morning.  The act of putting one foot in front of the other can be pretty monotonous and by “podding along” while plodding along the mind also gets something useful to do.  So it can be with the time spent gardening, washing dishes, preparing meals and many other day to day activities.

Podcasting has grown to the point that it can justly be considered a medium all its own.  Therefore, the attempt here has to be to highlight only a small portion of it, just one corner where excellence reigns.

Some of the best radio comes from the public networks of the UK, Australia, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.  Apart from the originating program’s web site, most programs are made available through any number of other amalgamation sources such as iTunes and TuneIn. 

This continuing series of small samplings in more or less 90 minute helpings are curated by me.  I attest to the fact that I have listened to every podcast listed here.  So admittedly these are thoroughly subjective recommendations.  But my interests and tolerance for incompatible topics and views are pretty wide-ranging, even if I do say so myself. 

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“Finance”
THINKING ALLOWED - BBC Radio 4
Traders and finance: Daniel Beunza - Associate Professor in the Cass Business School at City, University of London, talks to Laurie Taylor about his study of a Wall Street derivatives-trading room. In particular, he explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over recent decades has exerted a far-ranging influence on Wall Street , one which should alert us to the risks of moral disengagement caused by a dependence on ‘models’. Also, Anastasia Nesvetailova, Director of City Political Economy Research Centre at City, University of London , argues that financial malpractice is not an anomaly, but part of a business model of finance which involves the sabotaging of competitors, clients and even the state. (30”)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kfr0

“People rely on devices to store information, but that's not a bad thing, researchers say”
SPARK - CBC Radio One
While we might feel like we can't remember enough, there's nothing wrong with relying on technology, says researcher Evan Risko. "Most of us are familiar with the experience of forgetting, and it can be frustrating at times," the University of Waterloo associate professor told Spark host Nora Young. "The fact that we forget is likely a functional part of our cognitive system. Storing all the information we ever encounter would be difficult to manage.”  There was once a time when everyone knew their friends' phone numbers — now, many trust a device more than themselves, leaving some experts to wonder if this "information offloading" is making their memory and information control worse. The fear of technology replacing human functions is valid, said Risko, who is also the Canada research chair in embodied and embedded cognition. "Anytime there's been kind of massive changes in the technological environment, we've seen concern. "[But] it doesn't mean that it's going to turn out badly. I think it should motivate us to be careful, as we should [be]." (56”)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/people-rely-on-devices-to-store-information-but-that-s-not-a-bad-thing-researchers-say-1.5335165

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A monthly (well, mostly monthly) compendium of these newsletters, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is now published in The CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX).  For further information, go to www.cidx.ca

John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide”
NEW! 184 page 9th EDITION available NOW from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com], Amazon [amazon.com], Ham Radio Outlet [hamradio.com]
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