My podcast Better off Read has been down for the last 24 hours. This is because a DMCA takedown service reported I had breached copyright for making an episode of my podcast about 2666 by Roberto Bolaño because they have ‘power of attorney’ over this text… More here. via Neil on Twitter.

The entire thread is worth a read because it shows just how lightly some providers, in this case PodBean, take such serious issues and how they have little time to help their customers. There are many more important attributes to this particular case, but it certainly highlights the tightrope everyone has to walk when doing almost anything online.

Here is a simple list of the podcasts I have been listening to recently. Some of them will make the hours disappear.

The Lazarus Heist

“Almost a perfect crime.” The hacking ring and an attempt to steal a billion dollars. Investigators blame North Korea. Pyongyang denies involvement. The story begins in Hollywood.

A compelling tale that is sadly based on a very true story.

The Missing Crypto Queen

Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.

Brilliantly told. What a scandal!

Deeply Human

Why do you do the things you do? Deeply Human offers a deep dive into the psychology, biology, and anthropological explanations of our common traits.

I have learnt so much in just a few episodes.

Coffee With The Greats

Join host Miles Fisher as he sits down with some of the most accomplished and notable people to unpack and understand this age-old question.

Brilliant guests, natural chat and always worth a listen.

Full Disclosure

Award-winning LBC presenter and best-selling author James O’Brien hosts a series of compelling conversations with fascinating people. These are revealing interviews with people who rarely give in-depth interviews, be it from politics, entertainment or news. Subscribe to get a new episode every Monday.

Brilliant host, great guests, never listened to a bad episode.

I have a couple of guests lined up for future podcast episodes, but would like to prepare a more interactive one.

It would be most helpful if you could send in a question that you would like answered to shaun@mailstm.co.uk or even better record your question using the voice app on your phone and adding it as an attachment. Bear in mind that it will be played on the podcast, but it would obviously sound better than me just reading it out.

You can ask anything you like for inclusion in the podcast or send in ideas for future episodes. Anything you can come up with would be helpful. Thank, Shaun.

Looking for something to set and forget? Want a show that you can add to the queue for days on end? These shows have plenty of hours to devote to non-stop listening. For most of us, the quarantined is starting to feel like a never-ending prognosis, but we’re here to give you a list of shows to last you to the very end. Believe us, there will be an end. Until then, here are over 2,000 episodes to keep you busy! The full list is here.

This is a ‘big’ list and I have to thoroughly recommend Pocket Casts, easily the best podcast player I have used.

If you listen to one podcast episode this year make it this one. It is just brilliant.

Brilliant and right on. But that’s what quantum theory and cosmology and relativity do, as he says “It overturns all the things I held sacred in science”. So while those things still work in the world we can perceive, in fact they are all approximations of something we don’t know.

There are two other takeaways that I caught. One is that, in science, the questions are the most important thing. Not in and of themselves, but as long as you’re asking questions, there’s something new to learn.

The other was that we don’t know what we don’t know. For anyone who hasn’t heard about the knowledge quadrant, it combines question and answer as in

We know the question and we know the answer – these are what we would call facts

We know the question but we don’t know the answer – this is the realm of science, trying to move things from here to group 1.

We don’t know the question but we know the answer – something we observe but we don’t know exactly why. We have to try out various questions to see what fits the results. This one is where we get lots of false positives, studies that show something to be true that aren’t, because the right question hasn’t been asked.

We don’t know the question and we don’t know the answer – totally unknown and no place to start. It’s like saying to most people “Ask a question?” and they reply “About what?” and you say “Exactly!” Bob

Welcome to The Tip Off- the podcast where we take you behind the scenes of some of the best investigative journalism from recent years. Each episode we’ll be digging into an investigative scoop- hearing from the journalists behind the work as they tell us about the leads, the dead-ends and of course, the tip offs… More here.

I have only listened to a couple of episodes, but it’s very good so far. Recommended.