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Knowledge by Ear?

Posted by Cliff on from the food-for-your-mind dept.

jgercken asks: "I recently survived a 16-hour drive solo thanks to having downloaded 10+ hours of old Off the Hook shows, a 2600 sponsored radio program. It is so refreshing to hear news from a technically cognizant perspective. Is anyone aware of any similar programs or maybe sources of recorded lectures?"

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  1. Coast to Coast by sirmikester · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of course there are other radio shows with a technical perspective! Just take a look at Coast to Coast with Art Bell (sometimes). The technical parts come in to play when UFO's are mentioned ....

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  2. the /. show by InsaneCreator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geeks in Space - not exactly "Knowledge by Ear", but what could beat "slashdot by ear"? :)

  3. Space and Quirks by jayrtfm · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The Space Show focuses on timely and important issues influencing the development of outer-space commerce and space tourism, as well as other related subjects of interest to us all. {recent show with Brian Walker, the Rocket Guy}

    Quirks & Quarks on CBC Radio One Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. We cover the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom...and everything in between.

    also, check out the websites of conference recording companies. That $300 seminar you missed at PC Expo is now probably a $10 tape or CD.

  4. Just record the Discovery Channel by rasteri · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A good chunk of Discovery Channel programs don't need pictures to be able to understand. There are quite a few other places you can record from too.

  5. audible? by Polo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Although Audible is a pay service, it has an enormous amount of diverse material.

    I think my favorite so far has been "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman".

    I signed up for two books per month and I'm WAAAY behind on listening to it all in the car (some books are as long as 24 hours).

  6. BBC Radio 4 by Noodlenose · · Score: 3, Informative
    ...has an impressive collection of scientific content online for your listening pleasure.

    Always very well presented and researched, this is probably the best speechbased radio station in the world.

    http://bbc.co.uk/radio4

    1. Re:BBC Radio 4 by holy+zarquon's+singi · · Score: 2, Informative

      True. http://abc.net.au/rn is similar, with a smaller budget. More music, much less drama and comedy than radio 4. The science show is excellent.

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  7. Star Stuff by ZenJabba1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio

    1 Hour of space stuff, each week.

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  8. I like the Linux Symposium and TechNet Cast Files by elucidus · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Ottawa Linux Symposium Back Years Are Available Online. There are some very detailed and technical presentations. I liked the treatment of Rsync from 2000 "The Rsync Algorithm", highly recommended.

    Also see:
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  9. Linux.conf.au (2003) proceedings .iso by Dammital · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... includes audio recordings in Ogg/Speex format. See here.

  10. Dr. Dobb's by d3a350 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Dr. Dobb's has quite a few technical presentations in MP3 format at their TechNetCast site:

    http://technetcast.ddj.com/

    They've got a pretty good set of presenters and topics. I've only listened to a couple, but I like what I've heard so far.

  11. Radio Freek America by mageben · · Score: 3, Informative
    Radio Freak America is a 2600 inspired web broadcast from somewhere in Arizona. It's an interresting way to kill an hour or so. Check it out. They have more on the technical side than OTH's more political nature.

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  12. A few picks of mine. by Deagol · · Score: 2, Interesting
    After a few months of 1-day-per-week 3-hour commute to work (one-way), I grabbed a cheap MP3 player at Wally Mart. I began to look for more than my music collection as entertainment.

    My first pick was Off the Hook, then Off the Wall.

    I searched for good free sources of MP3 talk radio content. If NPR wasn't solely Real format, I'd grab All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Ditto This American Life (damn, how I'd love to have this show in MP3 format!).

    A decent, locally-produce show that I like is Radio West, a show dealing with issues local to Utah and the West in general. There's a few good recent shows about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a horrific event in LDS history that Mormon officials rarely acknowledge (and have never formally apologized for). Quite a hot potato in local circles. ;-)

    A somewhat less professional, but often entertaining show, is Ghostly Talk. Regardless of your opinion on ghost chasers and the supernatural, it's kinda interesting stuff. My only real gripe with the show is that there's a lot of chatter of the crew amongst themselves before the real meat of the program's main topic is presented.

    More MP3 archives of good public radio shows would be most welcome. (I don't suppose there's a good Real Adio --> mp3 converter for Linux?)

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  13. The Feynman Lectures by breon.halling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...Are available on tape at Amazon, and probably MP3 somewhere. ;)

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