New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2577 Episodes

1. Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling

   Published: 7/24/2024
2. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

   Published: 7/24/2024
3. Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)

   Published: 7/22/2024
4. David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)

   Published: 7/21/2024
5. Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)

   Published: 7/19/2024
6. Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)

   Published: 7/19/2024
7. Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

   Published: 7/17/2024
8. Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough

   Published: 7/15/2024
9. Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)

   Published: 7/15/2024
10. Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 7/14/2024
11. AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")

    Published: 7/13/2024
12. Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)

    Published: 7/12/2024
13. Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 7/10/2024
14. Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 7/10/2024
15. Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/10/2024
16. David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 7/9/2024
17. Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/8/2024
18. David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/8/2024
19. Sandra Hirsh, "Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

    Published: 7/7/2024
20. Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

    Published: 7/6/2024