New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2572 Episodes

1. Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/25/2025
2. The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success

   Published: 3/24/2025
3. Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles

   Published: 3/24/2025
4. Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/23/2025
5. Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/18/2025
6. Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)

   Published: 3/16/2025
7. Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/14/2025
8. Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 3/13/2025
9. Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/12/2025
10. Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)

    Published: 3/11/2025
11. On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/10/2025
12. Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”

    Published: 3/10/2025
13. M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/10/2025
14. Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair

    Published: 3/10/2025
15. Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/8/2025
16. Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/8/2025
17. Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/7/2025
18. Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/7/2025
19. Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/7/2025
20. Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)

    Published: 3/5/2025