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Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discon...
Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science....
47 min
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Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: ...
Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...
50 min
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Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...
68 min
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Philip M. Plotch, "Last Subway: The Long Wait f...
Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...
39 min
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Matto Mildenberger, "Carbon Captured: How Busin...
Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?
59 min
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David Kaiser, "Quantum Legacies: Dispatches fro...
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science....
78 min
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P. W. Singer and A. Cole, "Burn-In: A Novel of ...
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.
24 min
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Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Eth...
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...
22 min
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Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How H...
A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.
59 min
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Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beas...
What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?
81 min
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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Think...
The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...
42 min
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Ruth Leys, "The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and...
Leys focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive...
57 min
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Doron Galili, "Seeing by Electricity: The Emerg...
With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors and visionaries believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner...
52 min
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He Bian, "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Cult...
Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..
80 min
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Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vis...
Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...
56 min
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Ainissa Ramirez, "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans...
Ramirez examines eight inventions―clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips―and reveals how they shaped the human experience....
36 min
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defendi...
What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?
27 min
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Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Medi...
Bronfman traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century...
53 min
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Julia Obertreis, "Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotto...
Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...
43 min
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Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
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Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gen...
Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...
64 min
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Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evo...
The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old...
52 min
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Nathan G. Alexander, "Race in a Godless World: ...
Is modern racism a product of secularization and the decline of Christian universalism?
40 min
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David R. Grimes, "The Irrational Ape: Why Flawe...
What are some of the prevalent ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility?
39 min
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Jonathan Gelber, "Tiger Woods’s Back and Tommy ...
Gelber examines several athletes through the prism of the “Cobra Effect, ”a phenomenon that occurs when an attempted solution to a problem results in an unintended consequence...
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