I love ITunes

I do love iTunes. I don’t buy, or even listen to, a lot of music, but the iTunes podcast directory is simply awesome. My computer is filled with over 25 gigs of podcast material, about half of which I haven’t had time to listen to yet.

Today I upgraded my software, and the first thing I noticed was a new link to something called iTunesU , which contains links to podcasts of courses and lectures from a wide variety of universities.

I’ve been a huge fan of the podcasts from UC Berkeley for quite a while now, but there are some really fascinating looking course podcasts in iTunesU that I missed completely from other institutions. I’ve started subscribing to all of them… though I have no idea when I’ll have time to listen to them all.

If you’re looking for a fun and interesting course to listen to, my favorites from UC Berkeley are:

• European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present — a nice, well presented overview. Good for audio only listening.
• Introduction to General Astronomy — the lecturer in this course is worth watching in the video version.
• Earthquakes in your backyard - This is a totally fascinating course, and not too hard to follow. It’s in audio only, but be sure to check out the course website to download the supplementary materials, which make it understandable.
• Man, God and Society in Western Literature — some of the audio in this one is really bad and/or missing, which sucks because this is a really great series of lectures, especially if you follow along with the readings.

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