New Books in Science, Technology, and...

Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1876
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist...
An interview with Nick Haddad
53 min
1877
Christopher M. Kelty, "The Participant: A Centu...
Kelty offers a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today...
51 min
1878
Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism's Evolution: Organis...
Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s...
48 min
1879
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...
28 min
1880
Jose Sanchez, "Architecture for the Commons: Pa...
An interview with Jose Sanchez
27 min
1881
Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecke...
After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...
46 min
1882
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...
56 min
1883
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
69 min
1884
Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscu...
Hype can be combated and discounted, though, if you're able to see exactly where, how and why it is being deployed...
76 min
1885
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: Th...
O. Carter Snead defines for us what the term “public bioethics” encompasses and provides a much-needed genealogy of the field....
125 min
1886
Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: ...
Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles...
60 min
1887
Abigail A. Dumes, "Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease...
Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy...
50 min
1888
Colleen Plumb, "Thirty Times a Minute" (Radius ...
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing....
95 min
1889
Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Econom...
Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as the Robber Barons of the 21st century...
45 min
1890
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the ...
Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,
46 min
1891
James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat:...
Stein shows how high-school algebra and basic probability theory, with the invaluable assistance of computer simulations, can be used to investigate both the intuitive and the counterintuitive....
73 min
1892
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hid...
An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050...
76 min
1893
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (L...
Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our planet...
59 min
1894
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
1895
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...
44 min
1896
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Relig...
Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...
57 min
1897
Harmony Bench, "Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digita...
Bench traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today.,,
48 min
1898
Jeremy Snyder, "Exploiting Hope: How the Promis...
Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation...
53 min
1899
Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers ...
Weltman surveys a number of ways this conception of mathematics has informed scientific undertakings and public policies, not to mention our everyday behaviors, and makes a powerful case for reevaluating its assumptions...
104 min
1900
Matthew H. Rafalow, "Digital Divisions: How Sch...
Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...
48 min