Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)
Episode 118
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024) by Dr. Alistair Bonnett is a meticulously curated selection of 40 maps that spans th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power…
1 year, 8 months ago
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Episode 374
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 189
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions …
1 year, 8 months ago
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 281
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thous…
1 year, 8 months ago
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
Episode 103
In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with the show’s producer, Lan A. Li, a historian of Chinese science, medicine…
1 year, 8 months ago
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 198
A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day (Reaktion, 2024) by John Withington illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, fr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Episode 82
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history …
1 year, 8 months ago
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 134
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 373
Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs …
1 year, 8 months ago