Karen is your usual Sunday Afternoon Inquisitor, but today she’s busy enjoying a mind-blowing sex-a-thon the likes of which have never been seen outside a Penthouse Forum-writer’s sordid imagination. So I took over!
You know that we Skepchicks put out videos on this YouTube channel and of course you also know we broadcast Curiosity Aroused and the Skepchick podcast. Oh yeah, and I have that Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe gig going on still.
But what other podcasts or vodcasts or YouTube channels do you subscribe to in order to get your skeptic fix?
The Afternoon Inquisition (or AI) is a question posed to you, the Skepchick community. Look for it to appear Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 3pm ET.
[Climate Denial Crock of the Week]
AVoteForScience
CaptainDisillusion
ComputerHistory
DepressionCooking
My skeptical subscriptions, at least on YouTube are:
JamesRandiFoundation
Potholer54debunks
rkwatson
TheAtheistExperience
TheBadAstronomer
Thunderf00t
Skeptics With A K
InKredulous
More from Merseyside, please!
Podcasts:
Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe
Skeptoid
Skeptic Zone
Geologic
Irreligiosophy
YouTube:
thunderf00t
AronRa
CaptainDisillusion
cdk007
centerforinquiry
DonExodus2
nottinghamscience
periodicvideos
Potholer54debunks
QualiaSoup
skepticallypwned
thedarwinfinches
The Pod Delusion
For Good Reason
I don’t listen to whole lot of “skeptical” podcasts (I find them to be generally redundant to reading that I do), but I do enjoy several that are of interest to skeptics:
Nova Science Now
My History Can Beat up Your Politics
Scientific American’s 60 Second Science
Radiolab
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
Funny you should mention it, as I just [WARNING: blatant blogwhoring ahead] wrote a blog post on this very topic a few days ago.
I think Righteous Indignation is near the top of my favorite podcasts. Plus, the Conspiracy Skeptic, Skeptics with a K, and Token Skeptic.
On YouTube, you simply cannot go wrong with QualiaSoup’s videos. Invariably spot-on.
Podcasts:
Astronomy Cast*
Double Feature
FactCheck.org*
For Good Reason*
The Naked Scientist
PusCast*
QuackCast
Point of Inquiry*
Rationally Speaking*
Science and the City
Scientific American podcast*
The Skeptic Zone*
The SGU*
Skeptoid*
This Week in Science
Blogs:
Center for Inquiry
For Good Reason
JREF
Neurologica*
SGU Rogue’s Gallery*
Skepchick*
Respectful Insolence
Phayngula
Science Based Medicine*
Skepics Society and Skeptic’s Magazine
Skeptiblog
skepticator
The Art of a Carbon Life Based Form
Rationally Speaking
* rarely, if ever , missed
In addition to many of the above (just found Conspiracy Skeptic due to the interview with Michael Marshall of the Merseyside Skeptics):
Podcast Beyond Belief (for parents)
NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (the host has been interviewed on Skepticality)
Quackcast and Gobbet o’ Pus (the world needs more Mark Crislip)
Skeptically Speaking (radio show in Alberta, Canada)
Little Atoms
… not terribly prolific but fun (all Australian):
Nonsense Podcast
Cosmic Tea Party
The Skeptic’s Field Guide to Humbug
Young Australian Skeptics
… some science podcasts:
Are We Alone? (the SETI folks)
NPR’s Science Friday
The Naked Scientist
Nature
This Week in Virology (and the companion “This Week in Parasitism”)
I like Radio Freethinker out of Vancouver BC. They’re not scientists (students in the humanities and social sciences instead), but they are skeptics.
Plus, I wish I were Canadian :-)
Point of Inquiry
Righteous Indignation
For Good Reason
Freethinking For Dummies
Well, I have mostly science and skeptic podcasts, with a few others thrown in for good measure…
alphabetically; Astronomy Cast, Common Sense w/ Dan Carlin, Hardcore History w/ Dan Carlin, Little Atoms, Pal Cast, Point of Inquiry, QuackCast, SGU, Skeptoid, and uh..Tiki Bar TV.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History is a great podcast, but I’m not certain I’d catagorize it as related to skepticism. Science? Yes. History? I don’t think so, but it is EXCELLENT.
Interestingly, even though George Hrab is revered in the skeptical world, and though I like the weird, the wacky, and the irreverant, I can’t get through but a few minutes of his podcast even though I’ve tried to come back to it multiple times. Stranger still I really enjoy his talent when I’ve seen him in person. Oh well … can’t please everyone all of the time … unless you’re in a cult.
podcasts: Freethought Radio, The Nonprophets, Reasonable Doubts, Declaring Independence, The Atheist Experience
@Halincouh: I would argue that it is relevant to skepticism because, while psuedoscience gets the lion’s share of attention, psuedohistory can be equally pernicious in some ways, and a show that gets into the nitty-gritty of some hsitorical topic should be relevant to a skeptic’s media diet.
@anthroslug:
My History Can Beat up Your Politics
I would just like to say that this is an awesome name. I’m going to go look them up.
Righteous Indignation
Irreligiosophy
The Conspiracy Skeptic
Monster Talk
Little Atoms
Mr Deity
Sundays Supplement
The Amatuer Scientist Podcast
Savage Love (for the rants)
More or Less (BBC Radio 4 show about the truth behind statistics – debunked the whole Muslim population growth bullshit beloved of the far right in Europe)
Science in Action (BBC World Service)
Skeptoid
Captain Disillusion (Youtube)
Edward Current (Youtube)
I also heartily recommend (not because they’re Skpetical, just because they’re good):
History:
The History of Rome
Norman Centuries
12 Byzantine Rulers
Humour:
The Collings & Herrin Podcasts
Precious Little
Answer Me This
The Perfect Ten
it would be nice if some of you would provide links
The CUSP – The Completely Unnecessary Skeptical Podcast
(New Zealand skeptical podcast)
A few more YouTube channels that haven’t been mentioned yet:
ZOMGitsCriss (A Romanian Skepchick!)
dprjones
AndomedasWake
Here is something new and funny I found:
Apatheism podcast
http://www.podfeed.net/episode/Apatheism+Episode+7/2400055
On Youtube I follow CaptainDisillusion and HealthyAddict. After their recent collaboration I’m now also checking out ZOMGitsCriss and all the other girls who contributed to see if I should subscribe (so far, it’s looking like I should).
@Appleman: I’m glad someone else listens to More or Less – I sometimes think statistics are often overlooked by the skeptical movement, and that show, whilst not specifically a skeptical podcast, fills a gap in the market. The stuff they did over the election, examining all the statistical claims by various candidates, was fantastic.
Generally, Thunderfoot (who I subscribed to after watching the “Why do people laugh at Creationists” series), and a few things linked off of his channel. I generally hate streaming video and have no patience for podcasts.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys! Many of them have been added to my List of Things I Will Never Have Time to Watch/Read/Listen To. :P
Mitchell & Webb did a really funny skit on homeopathy on their “That Mitchell & Webb Look”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
They also did one for atheism. Make sure you watch all the way to the end of the priests lines. Hilarious.
@ anthroslug
You win. I agree. I don’t know why I disagreed in the first place as I am a part time history geek.
I was surprised that no one mentioned The Geologic Podcast.
I’d also like to take the opportunity to mercilessly pimp http://fledgelingskeptic.com
I know most everyone here is far from being a new skeptic, but for new people or those looking for basic resources, FS is a great place to start.