Podcasts Carnival

Hanson on Health (Econtalk)
Robin Hanson, of George Mason University, argues that health care is different, but not in the usual ways people claim. He describes a set of paradoxical empirical findings in the study of health care and tries to explain these paradoxes in a unified way. One of his arguments is that the human brain evolved in ways that make it hard for us to be rational about health care. He also discusses using prediction markets as a way of designing health care policy

The Black Swan - thinking the impossible?

How Good People Turn Evil: the psychology of social influence

Limited Liability: essential protection or evasion of responsibility?

Pakistan's political battleground

The dark side of China's Las Vegas

Investigative Journalism and Chinese society

How The Working Class Went Global

Al Qaeda: Past, Present and Future
Lawrence Wright, staff writer New Yorker; author of "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11"

Six Days that Changed the Middle East

Why I Went to Iraq…Three Years Later
Noriaki Imai, student environmental and peace activist

Modern Challenges in Disaster Relief Management and Response
Shaukat Fareed, Chief Executive, Board for Cooperation, United Nations; Founder, Office of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations

Guernica, 70 years on

Armies for Hire- in Iraq and Afghanistan

Children of Zimbabwe

Sorry tale of Burma's modern history

Drugs in Sport
Rear Vision looks at the history of drug taking and drug testing in sport.

Montessori schools - centenary

Crusader Medicine
Crusader battlefields were the Emergency Wards of the medieval period of European history. Injured knights and the occasional king on horseback required medical treatment, which was provided by monks. Today's well known names, such as St John's Ambulance, have their origins in these monastic medical orders.

Shakespeare the philosopher

Music industry aesthetics: sound vs image

Daniel Mendelsohn and The Lost

The future of cities

The Gospel of Judas - Real and Imagined

FIGHTING THE GREAT PANDEMICS
Sir Richard G A Feachem

Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty

Spiritual Classics
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Martin Luther King Jr's Strength to Love, M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled and Waiting for God by Simone Weil.

Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Equiano was a former slave who published a highly influential, best-selling autobiography in 1789 titled; "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself", the book made him an instant celebrity and helped transform public opinion on slavery.

Tackling obesity
Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown looks at the recent statements on the obesity gene, food supplements and lifestyle changes and asks which is the most effective for tackling obesity

Medicare Drug Negotiations: Can the Government get a Better Deal?

Hot Trends in Consumer Electronics

Is Male Circumcision the Key to Stopping the AIDS Epidemic?

The View From Palestine: A Conversation with Sari Nusseibeh