David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science....

When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...

A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.

What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?

The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

Leys focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive...

Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...

Ramirez examines eight inventions―clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips―and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?

Bronfman traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century...

Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...

What is the culture of the tech industry?

Is modern racism a product of secularization and the decline of Christian universalism?

The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old...

What are some of the prevalent ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility?

Gelber examines several athletes through the prism of the “Cobra Effect, ”a phenomenon that occurs when an attempted solution to a problem results in an unintended consequence...

Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...

Braddock applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few....

Dolmage links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics—the flawed “science” of controlling human population based on racist and ableist ideas about bodily values...

Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...

Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...

What is spam?

Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South...

Prior explores the social, cultural and industrial contexts for the changes that have taken place in popular music since the widespread adoption of digital technology by creators, distributors, and listeners from the early 1980s onward...

Olson situates the urban geography of Paris and the very material of maps of the city at the heart of the story of Republican national consolidation, from the initial stabilization of the Third Republic to the 1930s...

How does technology shape music?

Your building has the potential to change the world...

Looking at wealth of case studies among Amazon reviewers, redditors, and established journals, "Update Culture" is a deep diver into the many factors that contribute to the circulation of a digital text

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context...

Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...

The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?

The essays in this volume reshape our understanding of Latin America's Long Cold War.

Our conversation covers innovative progress underway in replacing reactive medicine with precision and prevention...

Hilty and her co-authors expand on concepts and practices important to maintaining and restoring land connectivity...

Tong looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks...

In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis...

Magnusson provides a sweeping overview of the tools and techniques of music-making both before and after the dawn of computing...

This book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development...

Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...

Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...

Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital...

Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory...

Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...

Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”

Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

Sorgner makes the case for a Nietzschean transhumanism...

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...

Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them...

Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...

Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.

Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...

D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Should robots have rights?

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...

Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”

Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...

Minerva discusses the moral concerns of cryonics...

Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...

Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond?

What is the human and environmental cost of music?

Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...

Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

Can robots be our friends?

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...

Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...

Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 70s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us.,,

Anderson provides a history of pigs in America from the first arrival on the continent in the Columbian Exchange to the modern agribusiness of pork production...

Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs...

The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?

Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...

This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society...

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

How did the modern, American body come into being?

Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...

Sexbots are coming...

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?