Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
Episode 49
With the avalanche of information we get every day, closing down our minds and hearts seems to be the only way to survive. We close down to our inner…
2 years, 2 months ago
Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Episode 42
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (Lexington Books, 2023) examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationshi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Episode 122
Screens are ubiquitous today. Yet contemporary screen media eliminate the presence of the screen and diminish the visibility of its boundaries. As th…
2 years, 2 months ago
James S. Damico and Mark C. Baildon, "How to Confront Climate Denial: Literacy, Social Studies, and Climate Change" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
Episode 227
Climate change and climate denial have remained largely off the radar in literacy and social studies education in the United States. How to Confront …
2 years, 2 months ago
Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 157
Listen to this interview of Christopher Reddy, environmental chemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusett…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
Episode 32
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural pr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)
Episode 121
The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque (Yale UP, 2018) is a cutting–edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic that a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 278
Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scie…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg, "Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 113
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.
The internet brings information to our fingertips …
2 years, 2 months ago
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 435
Can we predict the future? In The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science (Cornell UP, 2023), Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, an Associate Prof…
2 years, 2 months ago