The complete geek in me just wants to mention that BBC Radio 4’s great show, In Our Time, has started up a new season.  The new shows are available as a podcast the week that they air (download them and listen to them later if you don’t have the time now). This week’s show is about the Greco-Arabic translation movement, Aristotle et al.  Last week was about the history of miracles, next week is Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, whatever that is.  (Sounds like a trip to Wikipedia for me.)

It’s fascinating if you’re interested in history, philosophy or science, and they’ve got a gigantic archive of streamable shows as well.  Highly entertaining and dorky, great for killing time at work.  So I hear…  Though beware, some shows have been known to put me to sleep.  Higgs Boson, I’m looking at you.