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J. Mijin Cha, "A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future" (MIT Press, 2024)
27 mins; December 05, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
78 hours 52 mins; December 05, 2024
Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
53 mins; December 04, 2024
Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; November 26, 2024
Megan Rae Blakely, "Technology, Intellectual Property Law, and Culture: The Tangification of Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; November 25, 2024
Jennifer Denbow, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype" (Duke UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 24, 2024
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; November 24, 2024
Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
52 mins; November 23, 2024
Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, "Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine" (Basilian Media, 2024)
63 hours 9 mins; November 22, 2024
Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)
35 mins; November 22, 2024
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
47 mins; November 22, 2024
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
29 mins; November 20, 2024
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
119 hours 32 mins; November 18, 2024
Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 18, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)
57 mins; November 11, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
47 mins; November 09, 2024
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
25 mins; November 08, 2024
Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
80 hours 39 mins; November 06, 2024
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
69 hours 9 mins; November 06, 2024
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
64 hours 37 mins; November 06, 2024
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Penguin, 2024)
53 mins; November 05, 2024
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
81 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2024
Brian Groom, "Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World" (Harpernorth, 2024)
27 mins; November 02, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
33 mins; November 02, 2024
Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
37 mins; November 01, 2024
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
55 mins; October 31, 2024
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
55 mins; October 31, 2024
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
89 hours 57 mins; October 30, 2024
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 29, 2024
Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
41 mins; October 27, 2024
Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 26, 2024
Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 31 mins; October 24, 2024
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 23, 2024
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
60 hours 36 mins; October 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
29 mins; October 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
29 mins; October 23, 2024
Emotional Rescue
35 mins; October 21, 2024
Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
68 hours 26 mins; October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
76 hours 3 mins; October 21, 2024
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 21, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
50 mins; October 17, 2024
Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
82 hours 34 mins; October 17, 2024
Alastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)
43 mins; October 16, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 mins; October 15, 2024
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 12, 2024
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
32 mins; October 09, 2024
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
81 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
61 hours 43 mins; October 08, 2024
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
60 hours 1 min; October 08, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
71 hours 40 mins; October 07, 2024
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
55 mins; October 06, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; October 05, 2024
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
68 hours 10 mins; October 03, 2024
Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)
61 hours 30 mins; October 02, 2024
Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
70 hours 15 mins; October 01, 2024
Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
91 hours 23 mins; September 30, 2024
Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
54 mins; September 29, 2024
Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
67 hours 4 mins; September 29, 2024
Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
76 hours 54 mins; September 29, 2024
Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
17 mins; September 26, 2024
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
50 mins; September 26, 2024
Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman
52 mins; September 25, 2024
Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
65 hours 13 mins; September 24, 2024
Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
70 hours 14 mins; September 23, 2024
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
71 hours 58 mins; September 23, 2024
Amber Billey et al., "Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches" (ALA Editions, 2024)
38 mins; September 22, 2024
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
50 mins; September 22, 2024
Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
60 hours 11 mins; September 21, 2024
Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
32 mins; September 18, 2024
Hey, Robot!
28 mins; September 16, 2024
Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
54 mins; September 13, 2024
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
44 mins; September 11, 2024
Greg Eghigian, "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 45 mins; September 11, 2024
Raquel Velho on Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
88 hours 8 mins; September 09, 2024
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
54 mins; September 09, 2024
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 6 mins; September 08, 2024
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
60 hours 22 mins; September 07, 2024
James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
57 mins; September 06, 2024
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; September 04, 2024
S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being
42 mins; September 04, 2024
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
35 mins; September 04, 2024
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
24 mins; September 03, 2024
Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 03, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
79 hours 2 mins; September 03, 2024
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
52 mins; September 02, 2024
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
66 hours 15 mins; September 02, 2024
Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
53 mins; September 02, 2024
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
20 mins; August 31, 2024
Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
48 mins; August 31, 2024
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
41 mins; August 30, 2024
Tarryn Li-Min Chun, "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024), "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
68 hours 22 mins; August 30, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
54 mins; August 28, 2024
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, "Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility" (U Washington Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 27, 2024
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 27, 2024
Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
59 mins; August 26, 2024
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
71 hours 56 mins; August 26, 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 25, 2024
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