Ask HN: What's your favourite podcast?

Mysterious Universe (Plus+) for a healthy dose of paranormal entertainment. The hosts are (most of the time) aware of the fact that alot of the things they cover are pretty dumb, and they do laugh of it. It's one of the more professional podcasts I've ever listened to, sound quality is excellent, the music is good, and the hosts are really funny. Check it out!

Also, to feed my hunger for gadgetery, "The 404" and "Buzz out loud" from cNet.

And if you're into history Dan Carlin has two podcasts, "Common sense", about US politics, and "Hardcore History" on history. Good shows by a smart host.

Drive safely, and merry christmas!

Security Now - with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

A nice weekly round-up of current security issues. As well as some in-depth explanation of some aspect of security - like the inner workings of ssl certificates.

ThisWeekInScience:

http://www.twis.org/

Science, humor and World Robot Domination.

For those along the lines of "History of Rome," I would recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (which has a 3 part series on the Fall of the Roman Empire (which goes back several hundred years). He also has a 4 part series on the Eastern Front of WWII, "Toughness" in generations in History, and many other interesting podcasts.

He is very engaging and informed (he was / is an investigative journalist and a history buff, taking from multiple sources and citing biases or clashes with alternative sources.) http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive

He has a separate podcast "Common Sense" for politics.

Phil Windley (of Kynetx, local to UT) has diverse tech podcasts: http://www.windley.com/

Check out MIT Course Ware, they have lectures online. I'm currently subscribed to Biology 101 and introduction to psychology.

Anything in iTunesU is usually good.