My dear readers, my capacity for providing witty insight is pretty limited, so today I am going to serve up some other people’s chatterings to edify while my brain turns to ecstatic mush from eating monster munch.

I’ve been trying to find out about economics, it seems that it hasn’t got all that much to do with business, so that’s a relief. one of the best things I’ve found so far is Econtalk. It’s all pretty old school free market stuff, but there are some great interviews, like this one with Robin Hanson about healthcare and how mental people are.

With the Econtalk podcasts lasting over an hour, the philosophy bytes podcasts are a brief 15minutes of crisply edited questioning. I couldn’t really pick out a star, but have a listen, they fit well onto bus rides.

There are a tonne on the Oxford uni podcasts site, if you have itunes you can use itunes U. I’ve just listened to the talk that Nick Stern did on the economics of climate change. The intro the FHI that Nick Bostrom did is pretty good too.  There are a load there that are worth a listen.

There are a lot of video lectures on the Berkeley site, but they can’t be downloaded which is an arse. There is a course ‘Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems’ which I’d like to follow some day when I have a spare second.

There are a few others, blogging heads, the long now, fora.tv and a few that I have forgotten.

Does anyone else have any other suggestions?