I love books I also love consuming information through media such as podcasts. However books provide a method of learning complex topics in a way you cannot learn from other media. I wrote an article on the effect of media and critical though on the usethetrivium website.
Continue Reading
I have been listening to the Paleo Podcast with Rob Wolf talking about a video on Ted Talks. The video is by Research Associate from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, Christina Warinner. The title of the talk is “Debunking the Paleo Myth”.
I am open minded to new information on this subject and watched the video before I listened to all of to Rob’s podcast. On watching the video I was surprised. Christina Warrina is either a sloppy researcher or she was cynically attempting to alter facts and focus to suit her narrative on a topic that will no doubt get her alot of publicity.
Recently I bought a PC laptop. I have windows XP at work and a mac at home. I installed ubuntu (the installation itself only took about 10 minutes as was the easiest installation I have ever done (of any operating system). The installation started just by running a small windows installer.
I listen to around two hours of podcasts every day. Recently I bought an android phone. I have now swapped the SIM back and am using my iphone 3gs so I can listen to podcasts again.
There are many podcasting apps you can get for android but my experience with ( I tried them all) is that none is as good as iTunes. This is bourne out by the fact that currently 89% of podcasts are listened to on IOS followed by 9% on android and 2% on RIM.
The world is changing, we are currently witnessing a shift in power which will have a huge impact on people that don’t see it coming. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are now Australia moving off the US dollar as reserve currency it marks a move in world power away from US and European dominance.
