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podcasts by
downloading iTunes (free) and searching for them or by going to the website
for each and clicking "subscribe."
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nancy.chick@uwc.edu the URL and a brief description.
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
"Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast."
"Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett host A Way with Words, a romp through the English language." (We miss Richard Lederer, though!)
"A podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do." An effectively conversational, in-depth exploration of words.
"There's a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the show, but ... it's sort of hard to describe." In short, great stories bound together by a single theme each week--something akin to an audio short story cycle.
Slate is "a daily magazine on the Web," a "general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, and culture." Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe have discussed The Year of Magical Thinking, Beloved, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The House of Mirth, The Road, and more. Click the link above to subscribe and here to view the archives.
"Sierra Club Radio is a weekly half hour program produced by Sierra Club staff and hosted by Orli Cotel. Each week you'll hear in-depth interviews with politicians, authors, celebrities, artists, and activists inspired by nature. We also feature lifestyle tips from Sierra magazine's 'Green Life' editor, Jennifer Hattam, and from advice columnist 'Mr. Green,' as well as occasional commentary from Club Executive Director Carl Pope."
Inside Higher Education Podcast
The podcast from Inside Higher Education, the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. Whether you’re an adjunct or a vice president, a grad student or an eminence grise, we’ve got what you need to thrive in your job or find a better one: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.
The Chronicle of Higher Education Podcasts
The Chronicle has two podcasts: "Interviews" is a "weekly interview with a prominent researcher, college leader, or Chronicle reporter about big ideas in higher education," and "Tech Therapy" is an interactive "therapy session" about the "headaches, anxieties, and general problems you might be having with technology on your college campus."
Public Radio International (PRI)
PRI has lots of good podcasts. "Selected Shorts" brings together short literary pieces or excerpts, read by the authors or other good readers. "To the Best of Our Knowledge" is generally great discussion about intelligent themes. There are many more. Visit the page for details.
WNYC's show about science is fascinating. If you like "This American Life" and if you like science, this radio show podcast is for you!