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Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: ...
This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...
49 min
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Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil...
Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....
53 min
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Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social Histo...
In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...
20 min
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Sarah Seo, "Policing the Open Road: How Cars Tr...
When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...
32 min
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousan...
Moller traces the histories of migration of three ancient authors, Euclid, Ptolemy and Galen, from ancient Alexandria in 500 to Syria and Constantinople,
61 min
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Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babie...
Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...
71 min
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History o...
Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...
34 min
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David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bri...
Once a self-proclaimed dark green eco-pessimist, Dr. Montgomery finds this new hope as he travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health...
54 min
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Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: ...
Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...
20 min
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Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Lite...
Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...
65 min
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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, “Automating Finance: I...
Pardo-Guerra explores the history of the finance industry to understand the role of markets and technologies in contemporary capitalism...
41 min
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John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing T...
Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human populations, and the challenge of rethinking anthropological science’s relationship with indigenous peoples and the general public...
30 min
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Ekaterina Svetlova, "Financial Models and Socie...
Svetlova looks at how quantitative models are actually used by investors and finds a whole space where human judgment, intuition and non-model based factors come into play as to when and how and to what degree financial models are actually implemented...
25 min
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Anthony Ryan Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret D...
Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...
46 min
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Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the...
Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...
63 min
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Diana Pasulka, "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion...
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...
55 min
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Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The Ameri...
Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...
38 min
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Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexualit...
The book effectively historicizes categories that are often take for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but by inviting the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies...
77 min
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Anna Rose Alexander, "City on Fire: Technology,...
Alexander examines the approaches to dealing with the ever-present threat of fire in Mexico City in an era in which technology and modernity were transforming the city in fundamental ways...
37 min
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David Beer, “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power a...
What is the social role of data?
34 min
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Daniel Nemser, "Infrastructures of Race: Concen...
Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...
60 min
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Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Envi...
Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...
30 min
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Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Cult...
Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...
115 min
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Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its ...
Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...
56 min
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Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s E...
Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...
54 min