Please forget my recent review. My speaker was just messed up. But the microphone is sometimes terrible.

Oxford continues a trend. In this case, we have both bad audio (the professor fades in and out as he walks away from the microphone), AND a bad lecture (Lecture 1, 2/10/10). Perhaps I’m biased as a physician and pathologist. It seems that a nutritional anthropologist should inform us of historical nutritional practices, and how they were shown to be beneficial or harmful. Professor Ulijaszek appears to be acting as a nutritionist instead. He literally spent the first half of the show giving advice and opinions on proper nutrition. First I have to say that I’m skeptical that research on nutrition as a PhD gives you the credentials to give nutritional advice. I wish he had reported on the anthropology, given a few opinions as a side note, and left the nutritional advice to a registered dietician or physician. Perhaps more importantly, his arguments were fraught with logical fallacies. Just because the modern “processed food diet” is bad, doesn’t mean that the “paleo diet” is optimal human nutrition. Just because humans evolved with the “paleo diet” doesn’t mean that it was optimal nutrition for modern humans.

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I have yet to find a lecture here that doesn’t make my ears bleed. In an age when decent sound equipment is so cheap that people can record clear, intelligible podcasts from the comfort of their couch, somehow Oxford University only has access to microphones from the Triassic period.

This was a good lecture the mic was a bit scratchy but I need it for my class in college thanks for touching up on important topics

The listener who gave a poor review based on sound quality has no grasp of what this podcast is. A collection of lectures and recorded audio. The lectures are inherently hard to get good quality. There’s no master mp4 you can just upload. Others sound fantastic. The content is incredibly informative and really touches on the human character and what it’s produced. If you’re vaguely interested in Anthropology give it a listen. Love the pcast and will continue to listen :)

Thank u for ur passionate lecture. One thing is, the sound is terrible (guess it's due to the mic location). Plz care about it. Thank you.