Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Episode 248
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar story…
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Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 226
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional appr…
1 year, 5 months ago
Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 116
How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma…
1 year, 5 months ago
David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction …
1 year, 5 months ago
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intellig…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 78
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery…
1 year, 5 months ago
Why Teachers Turn to AI
Episode 40
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Sue Ollerhead. Dr. Ollerhead is currently a Senior Lecturer in Langu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
Episode 87
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Joshua Brinkman, Assistant Teaching Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at North Carolina Sta…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
Episode 69
As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that…
1 year, 5 months ago
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 44
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible …
1 year, 5 months ago