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Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
52 mins; November 09, 2025
The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason
74 hours 21 mins; November 06, 2025
Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025)
46 mins; November 05, 2025
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
29 mins; November 04, 2025
Jessica Doyle and Jordan Ferguson, "Dance Dance Revolution" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
36 mins; November 03, 2025
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
34 mins; November 03, 2025
James Elwick, "Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
63 hours 6 mins; November 02, 2025
Muhammad Atique, "Algorithmic Saga: Understanding Media, Culture, and Transformation in the AI Age" (Atique Mindscape Publishing, 2024)
46 mins; November 01, 2025
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; October 31, 2025
Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)
38 mins; October 30, 2025
Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland, "The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines" (Basic Books, 2025)
140 hours 51 mins; October 29, 2025
Xiao Huang et. al, "GeoAI and Human Geography: The Dawn of a New Spatial Intelligence Era" (Springer, 2025)
29 mins; October 29, 2025
Rick A LĂłpez, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
50 mins; October 28, 2025
Brian Potter, "The Origins of Efficiency" ï»ż(Stripe Press, 2025)
51 mins; October 28, 2025
Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
41 mins; October 27, 2025
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
75 hours 27 mins; October 27, 2025
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
93 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2025
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
93 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2025
Roger Moorhouse, "Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45" (HarperCollins, 2025)
65 hours 15 mins; October 26, 2025
Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 25, 2025
Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
63 hours 49 mins; October 24, 2025
Jesse Rodenbiker, "Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; October 24, 2025
Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024)
66 hours 13 mins; October 24, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 23, 2025
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; October 23, 2025
José Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)
32 mins; October 21, 2025
Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound" (U California Press, 2024)
100 hours 44 mins; October 21, 2025
Caleb Scharf, "The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life" (Hachette UK, 2025)
81 hours 54 mins; October 17, 2025
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
35 mins; October 17, 2025
David Eliot, "Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of AI" (Aevo UTP, 2025)
66 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2025
Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
31 mins; October 13, 2025
Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern
61 hours 42 mins; October 13, 2025
Darren Mueller, "At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz" (Duke UP, 2024)
74 hours 40 mins; October 12, 2025
David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; October 11, 2025
Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
62 hours 40 mins; October 10, 2025
S. Orestis Palermos, "Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law" (Routledge, 2025)
60 hours 37 mins; October 10, 2025
Anthony J. Knowles, "Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany" (Brill, 2025)
46 mins; October 09, 2025
Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
34 mins; October 07, 2025
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
25 mins; October 06, 2025
Carlotta Daro, "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication" (MIT Press, 2025)
37 mins; October 05, 2025
Daniel K. Sodickson, "The Future of Seeing: ï»żHow Imaging is Changing the World" ï»żï»ż(Columbia UP, 2025)
69 hours 43 mins; October 03, 2025
157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
46 mins; October 02, 2025
Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
80 hours 13 mins; September 29, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, "Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do" (APS Press, 2025)
35 mins; September 29, 2025
Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
49 mins; September 27, 2025
Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 12 mins; September 27, 2025
J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024)
59 mins; September 25, 2025
Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)
65 hours 59 mins; September 23, 2025
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)
50 mins; September 23, 2025
Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
45 mins; September 17, 2025
Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)
36 mins; September 14, 2025
The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
86 hours 54 mins; September 13, 2025
Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
70 hours 54 mins; September 13, 2025
Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 32 mins; September 12, 2025
Human Leadership for Humane Technology
46 mins; September 09, 2025
Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)
53 mins; September 09, 2025
Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
65 hours 2 mins; September 05, 2025
Bénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
53 mins; September 05, 2025
Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 04, 2025
Anthony Bonato, "Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media, AI, and Nature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
65 hours 42 mins; September 03, 2025
Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen, "The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes and Imagination" (Reaktion, 2025)
60 hours 34 mins; September 02, 2025
Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
80 hours 25 mins; September 01, 2025
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
30 mins; August 31, 2025
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
31 mins; August 31, 2025
Dan Davies, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
52 mins; August 30, 2025
Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)
64 hours 0 mins; August 27, 2025
Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 30 mins; August 25, 2025
Jack Buffington, "Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
43 mins; August 24, 2025
Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; August 24, 2025
Ben Connable, "Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
39 mins; August 23, 2025
Tim Lenton, "Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2025)
56 mins; August 22, 2025
Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic, "The Future of Memory: Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic" (U of Illinois Press, 2025)
59 mins; August 21, 2025
Gary Rivlin, "AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" (Harper Collins, 2025)
65 hours 23 mins; August 20, 2025
Noah Giansiracusa, "Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life" (Penguin, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; August 20, 2025
Thomas Christian BĂ€chle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (ï»żBristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 17 mins; August 19, 2025
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult" (Norton, 2025)
43 mins; August 18, 2025
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
64 hours 4 mins; August 17, 2025
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
61 hours 41 mins; August 13, 2025
Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
58 mins; August 13, 2025
Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
58 mins; August 11, 2025
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; August 11, 2025
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
20 mins; August 10, 2025
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; August 09, 2025
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
61 hours 54 mins; August 09, 2025
Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosmology: Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs" (Springer, 2021)
88 hours 20 mins; August 08, 2025
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 08, 2025
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
72 hours 16 mins; August 08, 2025
Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World" (Profile Books, 2025)
74 hours 49 mins; August 07, 2025
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
46 mins; August 07, 2025
David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
62 hours 13 mins; August 07, 2025
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
56 mins; August 03, 2025
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 47 mins; August 01, 2025
On Bullshit in AI
20 mins; July 31, 2025
Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; July 30, 2025
Anil Ananthaswamy, "Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI" (Dutton, 2024)
69 hours 21 mins; July 30, 2025
Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
70 hours 1 min; July 29, 2025
Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025)
68 hours 16 mins; July 29, 2025
Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters" (OSU Press, 2025)
35 mins; July 28, 2025
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
59 mins; July 26, 2025
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