Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)
Episode 244
Drs. Messina and Gill talked about cognitive offloading in our digital age—how smartphones, AI, and other technologies are reshaping our mental habit…
1 year, 2 months ago
Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
Episode 30
It’s the UConn Popcast, and what impact will AI have on being human in the next decade? Elon University’s Center for Imagining the Digital Future jus…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Episode 289
In 2018, the United States Supreme Court opened the floodgates for states to legalize betting on sports. Eager for revenue, almost forty states have …
1 year, 2 months ago
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 128
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Althoug…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 207
The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. B…
1 year, 2 months ago
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 232
In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power an…
1 year, 2 months ago
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 387
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on …
1 year, 2 months ago
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 84
It’s a common refrain: AI is neither good nor bad because that depends on how its used. Professor Anita Say Chan begs to differ. Chan is the author o…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 524
How do young people use digital platforms? In The Kids are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life (U California Press, 202…
1 year, 2 months ago
Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experi…
1 year, 2 months ago