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Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vita...
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
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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...
42 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
30 min
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J. Yates and C. N. Murphy, "Engineering Rules: ...
Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?
49 min
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Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigatin...
Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...
54 min
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Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We...
Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..
51 min
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Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and ...
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...
61 min
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Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Ill...
Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?
70 min
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Michael E. Mann, "The Hockey Stick and the Clim...
How do you reconcile the fact that, in a democracy, everyone’s vote is equal but everyone’s opinion is not?
37 min
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Cara New Daggett, "Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuel...
Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...
40 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Russell Potter, "Finding Franklin: The Untold S...
In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...
41 min
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Jamie L. Pietruska, "Looking Forward: Predictio...
Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...
36 min
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Jeremy Black, "Maps of War: Mapping Conflict th...
Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...
61 min
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Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polit...
Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...
38 min
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Amy Carney, "Marriage and Fatherhood in the Naz...
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...
38 min
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Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Co...
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change...
43 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: Fals...
Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...
37 min
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...
33 min