New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Episodes
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political...
Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (Sage, 2023) has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging...
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make ex...
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ran Zwigenberg’s Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (U Chicago Press, 2023) explores early ...
G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines th...
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The IS-2 is the quintessential Soviet heavy tank from World War 2. Heavily armored and boasting a fearsome 122mm gun, this tank matched the German pan...
Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's stronge...
Anne Baillot, "From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text a...
Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of ...
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early mode...
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the populat...
Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Living in Houses: A Personal History of English Domestic Architecture (Lund Humphries, 2022), Dr. Ruth Dalton presents a rich and rewarding histo...
Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the industrial district of the North Staffordshire Potteries dominated the British earthenware industr...
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold....
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observatio...
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency. The Sw...
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Danger Sound Klaxon!:The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023) reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one o...
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, we talk with Stefan Tanaka, professor emeritus of UCSD and a specialist in modern Japanese history. He is author of two books on ...
Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan Economics Professor and Former IMF Chief Economist) joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Power and Progress", co-author...
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and ev...
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored p...
A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The technological revolution we are facing today is artificial intelligence. At least this is what we are told. Those doing the telling include tech e...
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Xaq Frohlich’s From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (U California Press, 2023) is a biography of the Nutrition ...
Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute recently sponsored a panel discussion on the topic, “Can you fall in love with ChatGPT?” and ...
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for...
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Silk—a luxury fabric, a valuable trade good, and a scientific marvel. This material, created by the bombyx mori silkworm, has captivated artisans ...
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel...
Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Colin McFarlane, through W...
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fro...
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contempora...
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Should your doctor prescribe a placebo for you, instead of conventional medicine? And if she did, would it work? Is the double-blind placebo-controlle...
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual He...
Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World" (Triarchy Press, 2011)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recently I had a chance to sit down for a long overdue chat with Anthony (Tony) Hodgson. When we last spoke it happened to be for my very first episod...
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W...
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-autho...
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive vi...
Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied com...
William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and learning? How might the widespread use of digital...
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin...
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at ...
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even before the Covid pandemic began in 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis....
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. ...
Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Corry Cropper, a Professor of French at Brigham Young University, and one of two authors, alongside Seth Whidden, of Velociped...
Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naive...
Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
World War I was the first great general conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities...
AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey talks with economists Luciana Lazzaretti and Stefania Oliva of the University of F...
Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media (British Film Institute, 2023), Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world...
James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. James J. A....
Txt
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding l...
Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this book, Paul A. Thomas—a seasoned Wikipedia contributor who has accrued about 60,000 edits since he started editing in 2007—breaks down the ...
Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christina Dunbar-Hester, professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, talks about her rec...
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is free will an illusion? Is addiction a brain disease? Should we enhance our brains beyond normal? Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science ...
Teaching (and Learning) at a University Online
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lot of talk about online learning, and particularly universities going online. Today I talked to Caleb Simmons, Executive Director of Ar...
Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the c...
Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Whaley’s Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games (U Michigan Press 2023) examines the pathbreaking engagemen...
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel....
Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credential...
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 p...
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the p...
Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, ...
Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unp...
Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms...
Forty Years of Technology Studies
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Barley, professor emeritus at both Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about the long arc of his forty-...
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market do...
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transg...
Katie J. Wells et al., "Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" (Princeton UP, 2023)
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company ...
Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, l...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina, talks about his ...
Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ines Prodöhl’s Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900-1950 (Routledge, 2023) is a history of how, why, and where the soy...
Maxim Samson, "Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisi...
Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of r...
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of th...
Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective...
Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a p...
Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What ...
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with p...
Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gerald O'Brien's book Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession (Ox...
Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transformi...
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech in...
The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — a tool for personal revelati...
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrit...
Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane—the Yankee Clipper—took off from New York and island-hopped its way across the A...
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of...
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 18...
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as...
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on...
Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (Hülsbusch, 2023)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between madness and video games has been notoriously tense. In an abundance of titles, stereotypes and stigmatisations can be found—...
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evo...
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed ...
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts discusses the how advancements in artificial intelligence are shaping academic publishing. Avi offers ...
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal succ...
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Economist, historian, and author Marc Levinson talks about his book, Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas ...
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commo...
Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Routledge Handbook of Rewilding (Routledge, 2022) provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and current practices of ‘rewilding’....
Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts...
Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around track...
Networked: The New Social Operating System
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, twe...
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding a...
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. C...