New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
A podcast by New Books Network

2566 Episodes
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Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025)
Published: 4/8/2025 -
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
Published: 4/7/2025 -
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Published: 4/6/2025 -
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
Published: 4/5/2025 -
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Published: 4/3/2025 -
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
Published: 4/2/2025 -
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Published: 4/1/2025 -
Making Radio History
Published: 3/31/2025 -
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Published: 3/30/2025 -
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Published: 3/29/2025 -
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
Published: 3/28/2025 -
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
Published: 3/27/2025 -
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
Published: 3/26/2025 -
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Published: 3/26/2025 -
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Published: 3/25/2025 -
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
Published: 3/24/2025 -
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Published: 3/24/2025 -
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
Published: 3/23/2025 -
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Published: 3/18/2025 -
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)
Published: 3/16/2025
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