Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Ye...
Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...
31 min
2127
M. Schneider-Mayerson and B. R. Bellamy, "An Ec...
"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...
43 min
2128
Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origi...
Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...
59 min
2129
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
46 min
2130
Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: ...
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...
Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...
63 min
2132
Steve Fuller, "The Proactionary Imperative: A F...
Fuller debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species...
89 min
2133
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization ...
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...
67 min
2134
Joshua Sperber, "Consumer Management in the Int...
Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...
60 min
2135
Thomas Yarrow, "Architects: Portraits of a Prac...
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?
34 min
2136
Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: S...
Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...
78 min
2137
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: S...
"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...
58 min
2138
Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How ...
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..
45 min
2139
Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta ...
Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...
56 min
2140
Jason Smith, "To Master the Boundless Sea: The ...
Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...
34 min
2141
Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A...
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
47 min
2142
Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, ...
Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...
61 min
2143
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" ...
Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...
Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...
49 min
2145
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
2146
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" ...
Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts in France and Germany—were at the forefront of the struggle against cholera...
54 min
2147
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Emp...
The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...
54 min
2148
Nir Eyal, "Indistractable: How to Control Your ...
"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...
54 min
2149
Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitio...
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...
53 min
2150
Helen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of...
Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...