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Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 25, 2024
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
102 hours 59 mins; August 24, 2024
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
59 mins; August 23, 2024
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)
57 mins; August 23, 2024
Michele Santamaria and Nicole Pfannenstiel, "Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the Acrl Framework" (ACRL, 2024)
58 mins; August 20, 2024
12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
72 hours 30 mins; August 16, 2024
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
53 mins; August 14, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
43 mins; August 13, 2024
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
45 mins; August 12, 2024
Matthew Evangelista, "Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends" (Routledge, 2024)
60 hours 2 mins; August 10, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
54 mins; August 09, 2024
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
65 hours 15 mins; August 09, 2024
Alice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)
48 mins; August 08, 2024
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
72 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2024
The GiveWell Method
28 mins; August 07, 2024
Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, "Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change" (Oregon State UP, 2021)
51 mins; August 06, 2024
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
61 hours 2 mins; August 06, 2024
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)
36 mins; August 04, 2024
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 4 mins; August 02, 2024
Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
42 mins; August 02, 2024
Monica Berger, "Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications" (ACRL, 2024)
58 mins; July 31, 2024
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
73 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2024
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
53 mins; July 26, 2024
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
74 hours 5 mins; July 26, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
75 hours 33 mins; July 24, 2024
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
62 hours 29 mins; July 24, 2024
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
70 hours 57 mins; July 22, 2024
David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; July 21, 2024
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
25 mins; July 19, 2024
Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
39 mins; July 19, 2024
Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
75 hours 41 mins; July 17, 2024
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
71 hours 31 mins; July 15, 2024
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
49 mins; July 15, 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
41 mins; July 14, 2024
AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")
60 hours 34 mins; July 13, 2024
Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
57 mins; July 12, 2024
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
34 mins; July 10, 2024
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; July 10, 2024
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
66 hours 36 mins; July 10, 2024
David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
46 mins; July 09, 2024
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
78 hours 3 mins; July 08, 2024
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
23 mins; July 08, 2024
Sandra Hirsh, "Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
56 mins; July 07, 2024
Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
22 mins; July 06, 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; July 05, 2024
Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
29 mins; July 05, 2024
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
51 mins; July 04, 2024
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 14 mins; July 04, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 02, 2024
Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science
76 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024
Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)
88 hours 14 mins; July 01, 2024
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
53 mins; June 30, 2024
Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 28, 2024
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 53 mins; June 27, 2024
Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
39 mins; June 26, 2024
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
61 hours 58 mins; June 24, 2024
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
31 mins; June 24, 2024
Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
61 hours 21 mins; June 24, 2024
Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)
51 mins; June 21, 2024
M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 21, 2024
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
56 mins; June 19, 2024
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
75 hours 31 mins; June 17, 2024
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 16, 2024
Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 16, 2024
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; June 15, 2024
Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 14, 2024
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
47 mins; June 13, 2024
Julia Wojnowska-RadziƄska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
35 mins; June 12, 2024
Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)
48 mins; June 12, 2024
Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)
76 hours 20 mins; June 11, 2024
John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023)
66 hours 23 mins; June 11, 2024
Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
71 hours 29 mins; June 10, 2024
Pandemic Perspectives 13: The Need for Genuine Communication
48 mins; June 09, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
39 mins; June 08, 2024
Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)
53 mins; June 06, 2024
AI and the Humanities: Nina BeguĆĄ DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"
49 mins; June 03, 2024
Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)
51 mins; June 01, 2024
Robert Phillip Kolker and Marsha Gordon, "Film, Form, and Culture" (Routledge, 2024)
58 mins; May 30, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 18 mins; May 28, 2024
Edwin McRae, "Narrative Worldbuilding: A Player Centric Approach to Designing Story Rich Game Worlds" (Narrative, 2024)
28 mins; May 28, 2024
Joanna Guldi, "The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 40 mins; May 28, 2024
American Innovation, American Vitality: A Conversation with Chris Buskirk
61 hours 9 mins; May 22, 2024
Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
64 hours 19 mins; May 20, 2024
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
44 mins; May 20, 2024
Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, "Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2024)
57 mins; May 19, 2024
Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; May 19, 2024
Constantin Ardeleanu, "Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860" (CEU Press, 2024)
71 hours 51 mins; May 18, 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
53 mins; May 18, 2024
Catherine D'Ignazio, "Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action" (MIT Press, 2024)
53 mins; May 17, 2024
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; May 15, 2024
Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia, "The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice" (MIT Press, 2024)
52 mins; May 15, 2024
Dancing Parkinson's and Queering Science with John Noel Viaña
34 mins; May 14, 2024
Per Högselius and Achim KlĂŒppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
23 mins; May 12, 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
56 mins; May 11, 2024
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?": Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
62 hours 39 mins; May 11, 2024
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; May 10, 2024
Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
36 mins; May 10, 2024
The Scientific Attitude
47 mins; May 07, 2024
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