New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-04 09:04
- last episode published
- 2025-01-04 09:00
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020) As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that certainly could not have been imagined at its inception. In their engaging book Twitter: A Biography (... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019) Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing. T... |
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| 2025-01-03 | Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk ... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018) The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies on Hysteria, the good doctor from Vienna continues to stir controversy in institutions, academic circ... |
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| 2024-12-29 | How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and naturalist extraordinaire Charles Foster set out to understand the consciousness of animal species by living... |
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| 2024-12-27 | Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890—1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) by Dr. Michael Bresalier traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications... |
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| 2024-12-26 | This episode is based upon three readings: Alan Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence aka The Turing Test paper. Turing starts his paper by asking “can machines think?” before deciding that’s a meaningless question. Instead, he invents somethi... |
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| 2024-12-23 | Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Professor Nick Couldry explores these urgent questions in his latest book, The Space of the World: Can Huma... |
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| 2024-12-23 | Josh Spodek disconnected his Manhattan apartment from the electric grid in May 2022. Over time, he has reduced his consumption and contribution to landfill. His new book argues that sustainability is not a sacrifice but an upgrade that can bring joy an... |
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| 2024-12-23 | As part of our informal series on artificial intelligence, Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Matt Beane, Assistant Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about his book The Skill Code: How to ... |
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