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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

An interview with Ryan P. Burge

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...