i’ve been hooked on podcasts for months now; i’ve pretty much stopped listening to the radio entirely since a few years back when i got a car stereo with an auxillary jack to hook up the ipod. music is great and all, but with a serious lack of great new albums i want to listen to over and over, i’ve managed to fill almost my entire week’s worth of commutes with podcast listening. the favorites that kicked it off were my introduction and rapid falling-in-love with this american life, finding out there was an audio version of the classic savage love, and yes, i’ll admit it, a few video game news/discussion ones as well.

well, my new infatuation came through an introduction via this american life of a show called radiolab. they used an excerpt from a show on morality and how we make moral decisions based on subconcious calculations in our brains, and it was really interesting. so i went to their site and subscribed and listened to the whole show it was taken from, and it was outstanding. now i’m catching up on some back catalog episodes and they’re all really really great. it’s a mix of science, philosophy and humor as they pick apart big questions from a scientific, historical, and anecdotal standpoint, and the hosts are extremely affable and enjoyable to listen to. honestly, these are the kinds of things the internet was made to be bringing us, and i am loving it. if you’re a commuter with an ipod, i definitely recommend checking it out.