Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMargaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Episode 2887
We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2884
Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. From the 1940s through the 1980s, children breathed air so heavy with lead that their blood …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969" (UCL Press, 2026)
Episode 2885
Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969 (UCL Press, 2026) is a global history project that examines the diffusio…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily li…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 2882
Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the first…
5 months ago
Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)
Episode 2881
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to
invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge…
5 months ago
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Episode 2880
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without bei…
5 months ago
Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
Episode 2879
Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play (Hart Publishing, 2026) uncovers how video game contracts act as monologues of power, moulding p…
5 months ago
What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
Episode 2878
How is the tool of Artificial Intelligence shaping the writing of fiction? Is AI emerging as more than just a potentially handy aid to an author—and,…
5 months, 1 week ago
Learning Languages on Social Media
Episode 2877
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: …
5 months, 1 week ago