Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Episode 259
For many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artif…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
Episode 161
An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial nat…
1 year, 7 months ago
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 518
As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance indu…
1 year, 7 months ago
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Episode 2545
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Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
Episode 2546
It’s the UConn Popcast, and can you fall in love with ChatGPT? Can, and should, you have sex with a robot? We asked Professor Kate Devlin, a leading …
1 year, 7 months ago
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 384
Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (University of California Press, 2025) illuminates the throughline betwe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
Episode 2542
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with retired professor, consultant, Discovery Institute fellow, and a winner of the NTT DoCoMo Mobile Scienc…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Episode 52
Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment…
1 year, 7 months ago
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1550
Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science in Humans: A Monstrous History (University of…
1 year, 7 months ago
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Episode 206
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Richard Buttny, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at …
1 year, 7 months ago