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Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd, "Teaching the History of the Book" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
48 mins; May 07, 2024
Dead Air
39 mins; May 06, 2024
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
74 hours 27 mins; May 06, 2024
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; May 05, 2024
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; May 04, 2024
The Contagion of Covid Policy: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Freedom of Speech
55 mins; May 03, 2024
John J. Berger, "Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth" (Seven Stories Press, 2023)
47 mins; May 03, 2024
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; April 27, 2024
John L. Sullivan, "Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
38 mins; April 27, 2024
Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
56 mins; April 27, 2024
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
39 mins; April 24, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19 mins; April 24, 2024
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
67 hours 54 mins; April 22, 2024
HĂ©ctor BeltrĂĄn, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/MĂ©xico Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29 mins; April 21, 2024
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
38 mins; April 20, 2024
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
28 mins; April 20, 2024
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
67 hours 25 mins; April 19, 2024
Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
84 hours 38 mins; April 15, 2024
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
77 hours 57 mins; April 15, 2024
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
80 hours 3 mins; April 15, 2024
Darren Wershler et al,, "The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
48 mins; April 14, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
30 mins; April 14, 2024
Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
69 hours 11 mins; April 14, 2024
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
44 mins; April 13, 2024
David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)
34 mins; April 12, 2024
Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
70 hours 39 mins; April 12, 2024
100 Years of Radio in South Africa: Then and Now
54 mins; April 11, 2024
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
51 mins; April 10, 2024
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
79 hours 8 mins; April 08, 2024
Tina Sikka, "Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
18 mins; April 05, 2024
Dominic Boyer, "No More Fossils" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
59 mins; April 03, 2024
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; April 03, 2024
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
69 hours 21 mins; April 02, 2024
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
69 hours 8 mins; April 01, 2024
Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; April 01, 2024
Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
59 mins; March 31, 2024
Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
36 mins; March 30, 2024
Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; March 30, 2024
Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
39 mins; March 30, 2024
Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024)
35 mins; March 29, 2024
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
103 hours 19 mins; March 29, 2024
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
27 mins; March 28, 2024
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; March 26, 2024
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
43 mins; March 25, 2024
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
86 hours 22 mins; March 25, 2024
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
68 hours 0 mins; March 24, 2024
Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
58 mins; March 22, 2024
Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
30 mins; March 21, 2024
Jörg Matthias Determann and Shoaib Ahmed Malik, "Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
67 hours 46 mins; March 19, 2024
Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 18, 2024
Ruth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
66 hours 0 mins; March 16, 2024
Lisa Messeri, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 44 mins; March 16, 2024
Once More--What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to be Generative?
60 hours 55 mins; March 16, 2024
Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
60 hours 34 mins; March 15, 2024
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
22 mins; March 15, 2024
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
101 hours 6 mins; March 12, 2024
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
91 hours 13 mins; March 11, 2024
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
91 hours 13 mins; March 11, 2024
Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
102 hours 35 mins; March 10, 2024
Christy Spackman, "The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage" (U California Press, 2023)
56 mins; March 08, 2024
Hsuan L. Hsu, "Air Conditioning" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
44 mins; March 08, 2024
Mike Duggan, "All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
47 mins; March 07, 2024
Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
70 hours 7 mins; March 07, 2024
Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; March 05, 2024
Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
72 hours 28 mins; March 04, 2024
Francesca Sobande, "Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
35 mins; March 03, 2024
Verity Harding, "AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; March 01, 2024
Carol Beggy, "Pencil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; February 28, 2024
Sara J. Grossman, "Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy" (Duke UP, 2023)
41 mins; February 28, 2024
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, "Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2021)
61 hours 42 mins; February 26, 2024
The Taste of Water: A Conversation with Christy Spackman
70 hours 8 mins; February 26, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
52 mins; February 26, 2024
What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to Generate?
59 mins; February 24, 2024
Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
34 mins; February 24, 2024
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
51 mins; February 23, 2024
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
37 mins; February 21, 2024
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
68 hours 32 mins; February 20, 2024
Nate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
57 mins; February 19, 2024
Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
47 mins; February 14, 2024
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
52 mins; February 14, 2024
James S. Damico and Mark C. Baildon, "How to Confront Climate Denial: Literacy, Social Studies, and Climate Change" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
67 hours 58 mins; February 13, 2024
Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)
55 mins; February 13, 2024
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
49 mins; February 12, 2024
Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)
62 hours 53 mins; February 11, 2024
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; February 10, 2024
Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg, "Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
34 mins; February 10, 2024
Eglė RindzevičiĆ«tė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 04, 2024
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; February 01, 2024
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2024
Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles
61 hours 4 mins; January 31, 2024
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
42 mins; January 31, 2024
Curtis Fox, "Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict" (30 Press Publishing, 2023)
91 hours 49 mins; January 30, 2024
Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)
56 mins; January 29, 2024
Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)
55 mins; January 28, 2024
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
28 mins; January 28, 2024
Paddy Walker and Peter Roberts, "War's Changed Landscape?: A Primer on Conflict's Forms and Norms" (Howgate, 2023)
90 hours 24 mins; January 27, 2024
Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
35 mins; January 27, 2024
Lee McIntyre, "On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy" (MIT Press, 2023)
71 hours 26 mins; January 27, 2024
Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, "Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
49 mins; January 26, 2024
The Future of Images of Human Evolution
35 mins; January 20, 2024
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