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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
61 min
227
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Poli...
57 min
228
Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing L...
54 min
229
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in...
52 min
230
Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technolog...
54 min
231
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Vide...
18 min
232
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Mach...
An interview with Paul Thagard
57 min
233
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freed...
An interview with Lewis A. Grossman
39 min
234
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization ...
67 min
235
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evoluti...
An interview with Athena Aktipis
53 min
236
Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosm...
83 min
237
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Ki...
43 min
238
David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: R...
58 min
239
Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Master...
71 min
240
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
52 min
241
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives ...
64 min
242
On Bullshit in AI
18 min
243
Anil Ananthaswamy, "Why Machines Learn: The Ele...
63 min
244
Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How G...
57 min
245
Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education...
62 min
246
Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrat...
62 min
247
Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagin...
30 min
248
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Sur...
An interview with Joseph Gfroerer
53 min
249
Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works...
An interview with Paul A. Thomas
52 min
250
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: Ho...
57 min