Podcasts: 1374 (Oxford), 1974 (Kansas), 2024 (Austin)

Why do we love listening to conversations?

Oxford: 1374

If you were a student at a medieval university, you listened to lectures.

And listened and listened and then listened some more, often more than ten hours a day.

But they weren’t like lectures at today’s universities, where hundreds of students listen to a professor deliver a monologue.

The medieval morning lectures were like that, but in the a…