Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 16
If you enjoy video games as a pastime, you are certainly not alone—billions of people worldwide now play video games. However, you may still find you…
1 year, 9 months ago
Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 28
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exceptio…
1 year, 9 months ago
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 32
Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to p…
1 year, 9 months ago
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 82
Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequ…
1 year, 9 months ago
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Episode 51
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to the modern. In The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-…
1 year, 9 months ago
Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 77
Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its …
1 year, 9 months ago
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 160
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest wines and spirits. For over …
1 year, 9 months ago
Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 370
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powe…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 194
In their latest book, Fandom is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture (NYU Press, 2024), Mel Stafill highlights the importance of consi…
1 year, 9 months ago
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Episode 79
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Interne…
1 year, 10 months ago