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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
Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
56 mins; July 25, 2025
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
65 hours 13 mins; July 23, 2025
Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025)
42 mins; July 22, 2025
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
47 mins; July 20, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; July 18, 2025
Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)
72 hours 34 mins; July 18, 2025
Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; July 16, 2025
Chris Bernhardt, "Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate" (MIT Press, 2024)
52 mins; July 15, 2025
Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
29 mins; July 14, 2025
Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
64 hours 35 mins; July 14, 2025
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; July 13, 2025
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
29 mins; July 13, 2025
Tom Waidzunas et al., "Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times" (UMass Press, 2025)
67 hours 41 mins; July 11, 2025
Rebecca Lemov, "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion" (Norton, 2025)
37 mins; July 11, 2025
Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 11, 2025
Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
61 hours 20 mins; July 10, 2025
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
67 hours 51 mins; July 08, 2025
Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)
70 hours 47 mins; July 08, 2025
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
51 mins; July 04, 2025
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France" (MIT Press, 2025)
77 hours 42 mins; July 02, 2025
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
99 hours 16 mins; June 30, 2025
Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
61 hours 29 mins; June 30, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
57 mins; June 23, 2025
Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)
48 mins; June 22, 2025
John Barr, "1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
61 hours 39 mins; June 21, 2025
David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
48 mins; June 20, 2025
Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025)
79 hours 58 mins; June 20, 2025
Trans Technologies
67 hours 27 mins; June 19, 2025
Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)
40 mins; June 18, 2025
Anna Gjika, "When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age" (Univ of California Press, 2023)
52 mins; June 18, 2025
Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
61 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2025
Kean Birch, "Data Enclaves" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
44 mins; June 14, 2025
Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; June 11, 2025
Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, "Power On!" (MIT Press, 2022)
59 mins; June 09, 2025
Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
83 hours 53 mins; June 02, 2025
Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
64 hours 34 mins; May 31, 2025
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; May 30, 2025
Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
39 mins; May 28, 2025
Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
87 hours 49 mins; May 27, 2025
Tim Minshall, "How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing" (Ecco, 2025)
65 hours 27 mins; May 25, 2025
William F. Owen, "Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today" (Howgate Publishing, 2024)
104 hours 44 mins; May 23, 2025
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
53 mins; May 23, 2025
Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
50 mins; May 22, 2025
From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
54 mins; May 19, 2025
Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
59 mins; May 18, 2025
Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; May 17, 2025
Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
28 mins; May 16, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (8)
27 mins; May 14, 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; May 13, 2025
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
52 mins; May 12, 2025
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 28 mins; May 09, 2025
Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
41 mins; May 08, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (7)
22 mins; May 07, 2025
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; May 06, 2025
Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
69 hours 56 mins; May 05, 2025
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
64 hours 29 mins; May 01, 2025
Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
60 hours 55 mins; May 01, 2025
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
56 mins; April 30, 2025
Radiophilia
70 hours 31 mins; April 28, 2025
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
57 mins; April 27, 2025
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
74 hours 53 mins; April 26, 2025
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
52 mins; April 25, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
33 mins; April 24, 2025
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
72 hours 47 mins; April 23, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)
39 mins; April 22, 2025
Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
61 hours 16 mins; April 21, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
59 mins; April 20, 2025
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; April 19, 2025
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; April 18, 2025
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
68 hours 53 mins; April 17, 2025
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 55 mins; April 16, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 15, 2025
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
40 mins; April 13, 2025
Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
32 mins; April 12, 2025
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults
47 mins; April 10, 2025
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
70 hours 10 mins; April 09, 2025
Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025)
41 mins; April 08, 2025
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
96 hours 29 mins; April 07, 2025
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; April 06, 2025
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
53 mins; April 05, 2025
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
47 mins; April 03, 2025
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
27 mins; April 02, 2025
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
40 mins; April 01, 2025
Making Radio History
67 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2025
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
44 mins; March 30, 2025
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
60 hours 21 mins; March 29, 2025
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
35 mins; March 28, 2025
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; March 27, 2025
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
25 mins; March 26, 2025
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
65 hours 45 mins; March 26, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
77 hours 10 mins; March 25, 2025
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
59 mins; March 24, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 9 mins; March 23, 2025
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 18, 2025
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)
49 mins; March 16, 2025
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; March 14, 2025
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
38 mins; March 13, 2025
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