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2501
Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Reth...
Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..
45 min
2502
Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The His...
Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...
56 min
2503
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min
2504
Michael C. Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The ...
In Cult of the Irrelevant, Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Washington and the academy across the 20th century...
24 min
2505
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
2506
Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict betwee...
Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...
44 min
2507
Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine I...
Knowledge of algorithms can in some sense be considered to be the literacy of the 21st century...
52 min
2508
Kate Ervine, "Carbon" (Polity, 2018)
Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...
48 min
2509
David Colander and Craig Freedman, "Where Econo...
If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another,..
40 min
2510
Emily Baum, "The Invention of Madness: State, S...
Baum's book is a genealogy of “psychiatric modernity,” of the invention and reinvention of modern mental illness in Beijing, 1901-1937...
63 min
2511
Rick Van Noy, "Sudden Spring: Stories of Adapta...
Van Noy decided not to follow the well-trodden path of trying to prove climate change science, nor did he bark about an irreversible tipping point. Instead, he provides us with a much-needed focus on communities...
46 min
2512
James Schwoch, "Wired into Nature: The Telegrap...
It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals with unprecedented speed...
47 min
2513
Thomas F. Gieryn, "Truth-Spots: How Places Make...
During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots...
61 min
2514
Michael Ruse, "The Problem of War: Darwinism, C...
What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?
55 min
2515
Trent MacNamara, "Birth Control and American Mo...
MacNamara traces the multiple avenues in which birth control entered the lives of everyday Americans and gained social acceptance...
50 min
2516
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
2517
Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computi...
Rankin makes a compelling case for a social history of computing...
37 min
2518
Jieun Baek, "North Korea's Hidden Revolution: H...
Based on interviews with North Koreans who have settled in the South, Baek shows how everything from television programs to foreign affairs coverage and fashion has made its way into the country from the outside world....
60 min
2519
Peter Hotez, "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s A...
The alleged link between vaccines and autism has long been disproven, but it is still a belief held onto by the anti-vaccine movement...
39 min
2520
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machin...
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos...
39 min
2521
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovere...
The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...
52 min
2522
John Torpey, "The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Mate...
29 min
2523
Jan English-Lueck, "Cultures@SiliconValley: Sec...
Silicon Valley is understood to be one of the most fast-paced regions on earth, where innovation and upheaval are part and parcel of daily life...
65 min
2524
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina ...
An interview with Regina Rini
33 min
2525
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotec...
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...
59 min