What am I going to do with the time left allotted to me? I could probably stick with this job of mine until I die and not really be too upset. I just want to go to classes and use my brain while I still can. It feels like it's atrophying. I don't like that. But what do I want to take?
@Zoonie Please do. I don't even know where to begin.
@stillinhere what sort of thing are you interested in - history? Science? World affairs? BTW, many of my listens are in English accents :) I've got fun history, science, psychology, a couple of BBC radio documentary strands which are very eclectic but always brain pleasing.... choose your weapons, I mean pick areas from the above ;)
@Zoonie Ah, I think starting with psychology and the documentaries would be nice. :)
@stillinhere OK so "The Documentary" is a BBC World Service thing, so it's stories from all over the world, most often narrated with an English accent but it's a great world view. These are links from my Android podcast player, so you can find them in your appropriate player! http://pca.st/rAEW
@stillinhere "All In The Mind" is Australian! It's more hit than miss and it's all psychology: http://pca.st/cOnO
@stillinhere the Ted radio hour has *alot* of psychology in. Lots of other stuff too, occasionally little too uncritical of some Ted speakers, and the presenter has serious vocal fry croak that makes me howl! However, it's often very interesting: http://pca.st/nprted
@stillinhere "You're not so smart" is basically great, with the most annoying music and long ads which you can skip easily. More psych, and fairly hardcore academic sometimes, which is great: http://pca.st/yanss
@stillinhere Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History is off air at the moment but seriously, go through the back catalogue. There are so many mind blowing episodes in there. It's pretty much American cultural history but so well researched even this British loves it: http://pca.st/revisionist
@stillinhere let me know when you want any more! I would also recommend "From Our Foreign Correspondent" and "Seriously", both from the BBC, and both documentary/storytelling. FOFC is current affairs based persona L stories from the journalists on their reflections having covered some story or other, Seriously is very British documentaries. But good!
@Zoonie Well, I'm off work tonight, so I will definitely try to decide what to start with and bookmark everything else. That should keep me busy for a while. Thanks!
@stillinhere I have a ridiculous number of coursera/other online courses half-finished. I don't have the time to *really* take them, but joining and starting usually lets me access all the teaching material, and then I just learn whatever sounds interesting right then. I like the unpredictable mixes of science and humanities and vocational skills, and now and then something really gets its claws into me so I actually learn it. :)
@pmosetc I've been subscribed to coursera for a long time, but didn't have time until recently. I think I started a perl course at some point in the past.
@stillinhere is that something you were doing for fun?
do let us know if you end up finding a topic that sounds interesting to you! I can empathize a lot with feeling like the brain is getting too little use and wanting to take it for a jog. :)
@pmosetc I originally started learning perl because an ex-boyfriend was determined I could learn programming if I gave it a go, then I let it stagnate for a while, and saw it come up again, and thought it would jog my brain. Then things kinda went south for a while, and I let it go. I'll browse some more and see what catches my eye. Right now, I seem to have started wanting to know how TV shows get made. Maybe I can look into something related to that.
@stillinhere ooooh! I bet that would be fascinating :D
@stillinhere there are half a ton of really excellent podcasts on deep academic subjects you can download and listen to on the way to places, whilst doing housework, you name it. They keep things ticking over until something comes in to sharp focus. I can recommend some?