Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 238
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic p…
2 years ago
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 99
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work h…
2 years ago
Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 189
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic po…
2 years ago
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Episode 219
Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology rei…
2 years ago
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
Episode 2
In Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union (Brill Nijhoff, 2023) Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offers …
2 years ago
Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 219
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (Norton, 2024) is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle …
2 years ago
Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 308
In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an int…
2 years ago
John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023)
Episode 91
Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with ke…
2 years ago
Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 344
Artificial intelligence started with programmed computers, where programmers would manually program human expert knowledge into the systems. In sharp…
2 years ago
Pandemic Perspectives 13: The Need for Genuine Communication
Episode 121
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philo…
2 years ago