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The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
80 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2023
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19 mins; June 25, 2023
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
87 hours 47 mins; June 25, 2023
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
41 mins; June 24, 2023
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
20 mins; June 24, 2023
Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
63 hours 8 mins; June 23, 2023
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
18 mins; June 23, 2023
James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
47 mins; June 22, 2023
Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
35 mins; June 22, 2023
Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
14 mins; June 22, 2023
Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
71 hours 25 mins; June 22, 2023
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 21, 2023
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
38 mins; June 20, 2023
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
67 hours 55 mins; June 19, 2023
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 19, 2023
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" (U California Press, 2023)
79 hours 52 mins; June 18, 2023
Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
53 mins; June 17, 2023
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
32 mins; June 16, 2023
Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)
68 hours 14 mins; June 16, 2023
The Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP)
47 mins; June 15, 2023
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
34 mins; June 14, 2023
Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 mins; June 14, 2023
J. P. Daughton, "In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism" (Norton, 2021)
59 mins; June 13, 2023
Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls
72 hours 41 mins; June 13, 2023
Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)
74 hours 25 mins; June 13, 2023
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
55 mins; June 13, 2023
Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
34 mins; June 12, 2023
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
40 mins; June 12, 2023
Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
69 hours 45 mins; June 12, 2023
Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; June 11, 2023
Drone: Remote Control Warfare
17 mins; June 10, 2023
Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
48 mins; June 09, 2023
Lawrence Freedman, "Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2022)
47 mins; June 08, 2023
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 07, 2023
Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
35 mins; June 06, 2023
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
61 hours 4 mins; June 06, 2023
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
88 hours 2 mins; June 05, 2023
Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell, "The Smartness Mandate" (MIT Press, 2023)
56 mins; June 04, 2023
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 04, 2023
Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration
13 mins; June 03, 2023
Elizabeth Reddy, "¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)
71 hours 58 mins; June 02, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
38 mins; June 01, 2023
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
55 mins; May 31, 2023
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, "The 'Third' United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; May 31, 2023
Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
56 mins; May 29, 2023
John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023)
56 mins; May 29, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 28, 2023
Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
49 mins; May 26, 2023
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; May 24, 2023
Party
17 mins; May 24, 2023
After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
48 mins; May 23, 2023
Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)
59 mins; May 22, 2023
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
45 mins; May 21, 2023
James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)
48 mins; May 21, 2023
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
48 mins; May 20, 2023
The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
42 mins; May 19, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 4: George Zarkadakis on Digital Liberalism
34 mins; May 19, 2023
Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
42 mins; May 18, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers
39 mins; May 18, 2023
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
63 hours 59 mins; May 17, 2023
Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
46 mins; May 16, 2023
Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
28 mins; May 13, 2023
Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, "Secret Cinema and the Immersive Experience Industry" (Manchester UP, 2022)
49 mins; May 13, 2023
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
42 mins; May 12, 2023
Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis, "The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media" (Bristol UP, 2021)
37 mins; May 11, 2023
Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
36 mins; May 11, 2023
The Politicization of Science: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout
62 hours 10 mins; May 11, 2023
Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 42 mins; May 10, 2023
Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
76 hours 17 mins; May 10, 2023
Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
45 mins; May 09, 2023
Nina Hall, "Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; May 08, 2023
Barbara Penner et al., "Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
62 hours 27 mins; May 08, 2023
Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)
42 mins; May 07, 2023
Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
46 mins; May 06, 2023
Eva Haifa Giraud, "What Comes After Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion" (Duke UP, 2019)
38 mins; May 05, 2023
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
37 mins; May 05, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
46 mins; May 05, 2023
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
53 mins; May 04, 2023
Spatial Computing
32 mins; May 04, 2023
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
40 mins; May 03, 2023
Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
47 mins; May 03, 2023
Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
55 mins; May 02, 2023
Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
61 hours 8 mins; May 02, 2023
Extraterrestrials
16 mins; May 02, 2023
Collaborative Society
30 mins; May 01, 2023
The History of Contraception
15 mins; May 01, 2023
Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
55 mins; April 30, 2023
Technologies of the Human Corpse
32 mins; April 29, 2023
Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
66 hours 10 mins; April 28, 2023
Wendy Lynne Lee, "This is Environmental Ethics: An Introduction" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
39 mins; April 28, 2023
Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)
72 hours 39 mins; April 27, 2023
Computer Graphics
17 mins; April 27, 2023
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
30 mins; April 26, 2023
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
63 hours 30 mins; April 25, 2023
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
49 mins; April 24, 2023
Quantitative Science Studies: A Discussion with Editor-in-Chief Ludo Waltman
17 mins; April 23, 2023
John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
62 hours 38 mins; April 22, 2023
Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin, "Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures: New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital" (Emerald, 2023)
50 mins; April 21, 2023
Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; April 21, 2023
How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction
14 mins; April 19, 2023
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