Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to Be Wrong: An Introduction to the Podcast
Episode 1
"How To Be Wrong" is a podcast series hosted by John J. Kaag, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and John W.…
4 years, 5 months ago
How University Presses Keep Up With Everything: A Discussion with Lisa Bayer
Episode 40
At the New Books Network, we love university presses. So we're happy to tell you about University Press Week, the annual celebration of UPs and their…
4 years, 5 months ago
Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020)
Episode 68
Students and their families face a consequential choice in whether to pursue a degree, and in what area. For those considering mathematics programs, …
4 years, 5 months ago
Alcino Silva, “Learning and Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 84
Learning and Memory is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Alcino Silva, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Psyc…
4 years, 5 months ago
Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro, "When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 27
There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. They believe that va…
4 years, 6 months ago
Michael Horowitz: Founder and President of TCS Education System (Part 2)
Episode 36
In Part II of this interview, TCS Education Founder Michael Horowitz discusses the evolution of the TCS system from its origins in Chicago to a natio…
4 years, 6 months ago
Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 127
In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout thei…
4 years, 6 months ago
David Madland, "Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 147
In Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States (Cornell UP, 2021), David Madland explores how labor unions…
4 years, 6 months ago
Machteld Venken, "Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Episode 56
Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in …
4 years, 6 months ago
Kurt Squire, "Making Games for Impact" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 146
Digital games for learning are now commonplace, used in settings that range from K–12 education to advanced medical training. In Making Games for Imp…
4 years, 6 months ago