Here’s a list of the podcasts I currently subscribe to.
Favorite
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast. A show about the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them.
- EconTalk. One-on-one discussions with an eclectic mix of authors, professors, Nobel Laureates, entrepreneurs, leaders of charities and businesses, and people on the street. [Check out listeners’ favorite podcasts and Rob Wiblin’s recommended episodes.]
- The Turing Test podcast. The Harvard Effective Altruism student podcast.
- Witness History. History as told by the people who were there.
Also good
- Conversations with Tyler. Tyler Cowen interviews an eclectic roster of guests.
- Hardcore History. Dan Carlin’s ultra-popular podcast on world history.
- The Insight. Weaving together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology, hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history.
- Making Sense. A podcast focusing on important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events.
- Rationally Speaking. Julia Galef and guests “explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely and unlikely, science and pseudoscience.”
- Scott H. Young Podcast. A summary and discussion of each title in Young’s monthly book club.
- The Way I Heard It. Mike Rowe is perhaps my favorite storyteller. In this podcast, he tells a new short story every week.
See also: Brian Tomasik’s recommended podcasts and Luke Muehlhauser’s favorite podcasts