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Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
60 hours 38 mins; March 30, 2026
Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
35 mins; March 17, 2026
César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)
66 hours 35 mins; March 16, 2026
Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)
44 mins; March 14, 2026
Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up" (U California Press, 2025)
52 mins; March 09, 2026
Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)
41 mins; March 08, 2026
Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
46 mins; March 04, 2026
Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)
63 hours 10 mins; February 27, 2026
Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
72 hours 3 mins; February 26, 2026
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
79 hours 2 mins; February 25, 2026
Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
48 mins; February 23, 2026
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; February 22, 2026
Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
50 mins; February 21, 2026
Raiford Guins, "King PONG: How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions" (MIT Press, 2026)
75 hours 23 mins; February 20, 2026
W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)
48 mins; February 19, 2026
David King Dunaway, "A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
Ted Striphas, "Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet" (Columbia UP, 2023)
58 mins; February 18, 2026
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley et al. eds., "Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media" (Routledge, 2025)
38 mins; February 12, 2026
Yi-Ling Liu, "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet" (Knopf, 2026)
44 mins; February 12, 2026
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
58 mins; February 11, 2026
Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)
54 mins; February 11, 2026
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
38 mins; February 07, 2026
Tom Griffiths, "The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind" (Henry Holt and Co., 2026)
68 hours 37 mins; February 04, 2026
Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek, "The Organism Is a Theory: Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
73 hours 39 mins; January 21, 2026
Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)
40 mins; January 20, 2026
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; January 19, 2026
Aaron Bateman. "Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative" (MIT Press, 2024)
20 mins; January 06, 2026
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
42 mins; January 05, 2026
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
38 mins; December 29, 2025
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 mins; December 29, 2025
Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
41 mins; December 17, 2025
Chaim Gingold, "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" (MIT Press, 2024)
20 mins; December 15, 2025
Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
102 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025
Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
42 mins; December 03, 2025
Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025)