New Books in the History of Science

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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
61 min
27
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
28
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Poli...
57 min
29
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freed...
An interview with Lewis A. Grossman
39 min
30
Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosm...
83 min
31
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evoluti...
An interview with Athena Aktipis
53 min
32
Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How G...
57 min
33
Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrat...
62 min
34
Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The ...
82 min
35
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Histo...
20 min
36
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victoria...
38 min
37
Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smokin...
53 min
38
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: In...
54 min
39
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathoge...
47 min
40
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, "Ascending R...
69 min
41
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea an...
88 min
42
Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, "Battle of th...
53 min
43
Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical ...
40 min
44
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madho...
47 min
45
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New H...
49 min
46
Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biogra...
72 min
47
Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis:...
45 min
48
Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: ...
34 min
49
Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in ...
31 min
50
Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern ...
76 min