Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 241
War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford Universi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Episode 65
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 6
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria cont…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 35
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way im…
1 year, 11 months ago
David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 8
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this s…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Episode 13
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an …
1 year, 11 months ago
Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
Episode 63
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its…
1 year, 11 months ago
Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 162
What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure.
For better or worse, windshields have…
1 year, 11 months ago
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
Episode 76
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
Episode 83
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5…
1 year, 11 months ago