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Darknet Diaries is wonderful podcast overall and very entertaining to me. The latest two part episodes of Gollumfun #128 and #129 were great. He interviews 'Gollumfun' who was one of the biggest players in the online underground. His story is just wild!
What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health by Huberman Lab
Sobering (no pun intended) look at just how detrimental cannabis can be to the brain. Covers everything from grey matter volume reductions, to tonal shifts in speech and memory loss.
I would have liked to have seen more coverage of CBD, as all signs point to it being a buffer against THC’s negative effects, but the recent science paints a fairly grim portrait of THC’s affect on cognition.
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source?
It's on Spotify. And on BBC sounds. And I think it's on iTunes. You might just be able to download it for free too. It used to be available like that years ago.
That's not true.
However, I would agree that Hardcore History leans more towards the entertainment side, so while the overall picture is inline with what historians say (Cyrus the Great as a leader vs Darius or the effects of the Gracchi brothers), the specific stories that Dan Carlin says may have other interpretations or other versions.
Obviously, it would interrupt the flow to say "Oh but XYZ disagrees and says this specific story actually happened 5 years earlier", so Dan prefaces it by saying that it's one interpretation.
Saying that "AskHistorians thinks Hardcore History is really innacurate" is completely false.
It does what it sounds like — make it easy to download podcasts
Shameless plug, if you’re looking to download any of these, try podcastsaver.com (I built it). It does what it sounds like — make it easy to download podcasts
Shameless plug, if you’re looking to download any of these, try podcastsaver.com (I built it). It does what it sounds like — make it easy to download podcasts
Very cool and useful- how does it work? Does the podcast index allow you to download episodes through their api? Didn't know such a website was possible
Well it’s possible because RSS is so open and accessible! The podcast index provides an initial trove and I look through, filter and prune.
Think of it as a brief history of online adult content industry. Not the best execution but reveals some good information.
Hunting Warhead: Follows a journalist and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/387-hunting-warhead
Death in ice valley: Podcast investigating a mystery about a dead women in Norway unsolved for almost half a century.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttp4
The Outlaw Ocean: A seven-part series that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by traffickers and smugglers, pirates etc.
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It's on Spotify. And on BBC sounds. And I think it's on iTunes. You might just be able to download it for free too. It used to be available like that years ago.
Nah I meant kranke155's claim that AskHistorians says Hardcore History is inaccurate. That's not true. However, I would agree that Hardcore History leans more towards the entertainment side, so while the overall picture is inline with what historians say (Cyrus the Great as a leader vs Darius or the effects of the Gracchi brothers), the specific stories that Dan Carlin says may have other interpretations or other ver…