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2026
Katie Day Good, "Bring the World to the Child: ...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global citizenship...
36 min
2027
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, "The Good Drone: How S...
Choi-Fitzpatrick demonstrates that this technology – which is mostly associated with covert surveillance and remote warfare – has also served as a vital tool for activists, social movements...
40 min
2028
Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Scien...
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white...
62 min
2029
Mack Hagood, "Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Contro...
How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life?
78 min
2030
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequali...
Fischer explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers...
44 min
2031
Jeffrey J. Kripal, "The Flip: Epiphanies of Min...
Kripal offers an ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars...
45 min
2032
Nadia Eghbal, "Working in Public: The Making an...
Most open-source code is not developed by big teams or equitable collaborations; it’s maintained by unseen individuals who work tirelessly to write and publish code that's consumed by millions....
64 min
2033
Danielle Giffort, "Acid Revival: The Psychedeli...
LSD is on your doctor's menu. At least not yet....
30 min
2034
Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agricu...
Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..
61 min
2035
Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fra...
Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?
75 min
2036
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Pe...
How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?
34 min
2037
Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dick...
What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common?
70 min
2038
J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental Hi...
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....
56 min
2039
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise Histor...
Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs's clinic to the present...
21 min
2040
Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Tri...
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...
35 min
2041
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Soc...
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable....
65 min
2042
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....
62 min
2043
Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Inte...
In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...
48 min
2044
Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control...
Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa...
78 min
2045
Olivia Weisser, "ll Composed: Sickness, Gender,...
This book sits right at the intersection of all three of these subfields and contributes to our understanding of the lived experience of religion, the lived experience of gender, ideas about ‘nature,’ and, of course, the history of medicine...
39 min
2046
T. Paulus and A. Wise, "Looking for Insight, Tr...
The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...
70 min
2047
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story ...
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them....
41 min
2048
Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A P...
In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....
60 min
2049
Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation The...
Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...
44 min
2050
Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History o...
Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
59 min