Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2690
How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence
Ev…
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J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 2688
We live in an age of increasing complexity--an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, tha…
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Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)
Episode 2686
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…
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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)
Episode 2687
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and t…
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Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
Episode 2685
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…
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Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
Episode 2684
Taking recent spectacular progress in AI fully into account, Mark Seligman's AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature (Anthem Pr…
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Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)
Episode 2683
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…
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The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
Episode 2681
This is the first episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams …
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Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
Episode 2682
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…
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Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
Episode 2680
Inspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online Manosphere has exploded in recent years. Dedicated to anti-feminism, these co…
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