Podcast Episodes

Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence

Ev…

9 months ago

J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024)

We live in an age of increasing complexity--an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, tha…

9 months ago

Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)

Humanity's relationship with black holes began in 1783 in a small English village, when clergyman John Michell posed a startling question: What if th…

9 months ago

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)

It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and t…

9 months ago

Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle…

9 months, 1 week ago

Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)

Taking recent spectacular progress in AI fully into account, Mark Seligman's AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature (Anthem Pr…

9 months, 1 week ago

Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)

From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia

This is the first episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

In the tradition of classics such as The Lives of a Cell, a bold reframing of our relationship with technology that argues code is "a universal force…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)

Inspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online Manosphere has exploded in recent years. Dedicated to anti-feminism, these co…

9 months, 2 weeks ago