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Science
Social Sciences
1326
NBN Classic: Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Ca...
Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..
68 min
1327
NBN Classic: Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self...
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?
58 min
1328
NBN Classic: Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Ineq...
Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...
79 min
1329
NBN Classic: Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of ...
An interview with Jonathan Sadowsky
71 min
1330
James Belich, "The World the Plague Made: The B...
An interview with James Belich
65 min
1331
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World...
An interview with David Max Moerman
79 min
1332
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
An interview with Andrea Ballestero
78 min
1333
The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation w...
57 min
1334
Amber Sinha, "The Networked Public: How Social ...
An interview with Amber Sinha
52 min
1335
Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art a...
An interview with Alex Nathanson
22 min
1336
Stefan Höltgen, "Open History: The Archaeology ...
An interview with Stefan Höltgen
45 min
1337
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (H...
An interview with Beronda L. Montgomery
21 min
1338
Felicia Wu Song, "Restless Devices: Recovering ...
An interview with Felicia Wu Song
23 min
1339
Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American His...
An interview with Esther Wright
34 min
1340
Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American...
An interview with Karen Hunger Parshall
66 min
1341
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: In...
An interview with Josh Chin and Liza Lin
54 min
1342
Elise Vernon Pearlstine, "Scent: A Natural Hist...
An interview with Elise Vernon Pearlstine
49 min
1343
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: His...
46 min
1344
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Fra...
An interview with Justin Grimmer, Brandon M. Stewart, and Margaret E. Roberts
52 min
1345
Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and...
76 min
1346
J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: ...
An interview with J. Bradford DeLong
55 min
1347
Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments i...
An interview with Jerry C. Zee
65 min
1348
Lucía Fernández-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview o...
An interview with Lucía Fernández-Amaya
31 min
1349
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
How Do We Choose Which Drugs to Use?
59 min
1350
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social...
An interview with Geoffrey R. Stone
39 min