New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Episodes
Seeing Truth in the Lab
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Liboiron founder of Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory talks about making better science and how they are...
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whe...
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Martin Erwig show us how we can find computational concepts inside some of our favorite stories. Picture a computer scientist, starin...
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Intelligence Quotient is a measure of intelligence that has life-or-death consequences. Should we trust it? GUEST Alan Gouddis is a Partner with S...
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’...
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus. Safe spaces, trig...
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cinephilia has recently experienced a powerful resurgence, one enabled by new media technologies of the digital revolution. One strong continuity betw...
Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren maps...
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While ...
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris Gondek interviews Ed Finn, author of the new book What Algorithms Want. Tune in for an interesting discussion on algorithm dis...
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John and Elizabeth, in this special Centennial episode of Recall this Book, explore spectral radiation with Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Ant...
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for m...
Measure for Measure Episode 1: Fathom
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We love a good chart or graph but we think measurement is more complex and interesting than the data points. The fathom is a measure of depth from the...
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, author Ryan Milner talks to Chris Gondak about the rise of the internet meme, and the five logics that factor into the foundation, gr...
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism,...
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some...
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Simon, a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College, discusses his new book Media of the Masses: Cassette C...
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, a...
Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, a famous Vietnamese businesswoman hosted a three-hour long Facebook livestream, in which she named and shamed celebrities for their controver...
Seeing Truth in Photographs
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Penelope Umbrico talks about her work, images as currency, and how technology and various platforms herd images. And is photography tyrannical?...
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a...
Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger;...
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossi...
Garima Garg, "Heavens and Earth: The Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures" (Penguin, 2023)
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What will the future bring? The ancient astrologer turned the impulse to answer this question into something meaningful by mapping the night skies and...
Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let's plays are among the most popular genres on YouTube. The visual worlds of video games shape the worldviews of millions. Gaming is a hobby and a m...
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, "Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space" (MIT Press, 2021)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. I...
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investi...
Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present. Amusement arcades are an important part of British culture, yet discussions...
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical...
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital...
99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s actually going on in a cell–or on the spiky outside of an invading virus? Gael McGill, Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center ...
The Politics of Bicycling
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Po...
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that tradit...
Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Gail Borden’s meat biscuit to John Harvey Kellogg’s peptogenic foods for race betterment and Fleishmann’s yeast as both technology of empir...
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesize...
Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s podcast we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Lee D. Baker’s book From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and ...
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Hintz, a historian and fellowship coordinator with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution’...
Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Di...
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, “‘The Least Safe Day’:...
James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from th...
The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather o...
Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn't. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted refo...
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would happen if microchips suddenly disappeared from our world? From phones to cars, medical equipment to heating units, they are crucial for the...
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Communication researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt talks about her book, The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication, as well as some of her recent and forthco...
Seeing Truth in the Archives
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Sweimler, Exhibition Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History, talks about his career at the museum, working on Seeing Truth, and w...
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning:...
Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History (Routledge, 2022) is a complete handbook to help pre-service teachers, current teachers...
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff t...
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee....
The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist and STS graduate student Gemma Milne talks about her book, Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It, with Peo...
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build greener infrastructure in the face of the global climate emergency? In Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shi...
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequali...
Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our co-hosts Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang discusses t...
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – a...
Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as ...
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Runstedler's book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the different functions and ...
Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Kleinberg, an associate professor of computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about a book she’s been writing on how we c...
Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Recall this Book welcomes Zachary Horton, Associate Professor of Literature and director of the Vibrant Media Lab at University of Pittsburgh...
Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, ...
Inventing American Telecommunications
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, w...
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Vanhaelen's The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Penn State University Press, 202...
Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have usually relied on public intellectuals to provide facts, ideas, and cultural leadership--though not all have lived up to the ideal of “speak...
The History of Teletherapy
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Scienc...
Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As I slowly settle into 2023 — reflecting on the blur that was 2022 — I can’t help but think about the complex problems (aka big messes!) we fac...
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick McCray, Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Art...
The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Microchips are both important and in short supply. So how important? And what can be done to make them more plentiful? Also, what are the geopolitical...
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists ...
The History of Electricity in Mexico
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her detailed cultural history of technological change, Electrifying Mexico, Diana Montaño argues that ordinary Mexicans became electrifying age...
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists ...
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America,...
Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "vi...
Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For almost a year now, we have been absorbing news and information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are a variety of different, or competin...
The Archaeology of Innovation
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Frieman, an associate professor of European Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, talks about her recent book, An Archaeology of Innovat...
Engineering and Social Justice
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Riley, professor and head of the school of engineering education at Purdue University, talks about her path, her work, and her 2008 book, Engine...
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare....
Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human-caused climate change is real and growing in impact. Yet many Americans see climate change as a belief that they can opt out of. Two belief stru...
Deafness “Cures” in History
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jaipreet Virdi talks about her book Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book details the long hist...
Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US military didn't just conquer its way across the US West and the Pacific - it also collected and categorized across these spaces too. In Taking...
Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Devon Powers, a professor of advertising, media, and communication at Temple University, talks about her book, On Trend: The Business of Forecasting t...
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more th...
The Thought of Ivan Illich
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher, and social critic Ivan Illich with Peoples & Thing...
Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our Books in Dark Times series offered John this 2021 chance to speak with Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. ...
Spiritual Machines: Transhumanism and Religion
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since early scientists began experimenting with immortality elixirs in the middle ages, religion has been influencing transhumanism. Now, we’re...
Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Jennifer Forestal’s new book is a fascinating exploration of contemporary democracy and how it operates in different spaces. Fore...
BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special bonus episode. Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks about the podcast’s recent move to the New Books Network and plans the Peoples & Thi...
Automating Finance
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a professor at University of California San Diego, talks about his book Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engi...
Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Hanna Rose Shell, a professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, talks about her book Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rag...
South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Chung, assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks about his research on the rise of shipping and manufacturing in Sou...
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of I...
Infrastructure and Inequality
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Armanios, associate professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about his work on infrastructure and inequa...
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But sh...
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that wide...
The Politics of Digital Technology
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the po...
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into the digital space say about the social realities ...
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data journalist Meredith Broussard talks about her book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, with Peoples & Things host ...
The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most people in developed countries think inequality is increasing. And most would also agree that in terms of the global poor, the last 20 years have ...
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1974, India surprised the world with “Smiling Buddha”: a secret underground nuclear test at Pokhran, Rajasthan. India called it a “peaceful n...
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Jewett is the author of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America (2020) and Science, Democracy, and the America...
Understanding Technology Bubbles
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Goldfarb and David Kirsch, professors of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, talk ...
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” wi...