Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 126
Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content v…
2 years, 3 months ago
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
Episode 65
Are you into the end of the world? Well, have we got the guest for you. In this episode, Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel interviews Zachary Loeb, as…
2 years, 3 months ago
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
Episode 65
Are you into the end of the world? Well, have we got the guest for you. In this episode, Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel interviews Zachary Loeb, as…
2 years, 3 months ago
Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
Episode 1424
"Luddite" has become an insult and Brain Merchant wants to change that. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Little, …
2 years, 3 months ago
Christy Spackman, "The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 146
Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage…
2 years, 3 months ago
Hsuan L. Hsu, "Air Conditioning" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 361
Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, ment…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mike Duggan, "All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 109
Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mike Duggan is an exploration …
2 years, 3 months ago
Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 125
Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and onli…
2 years, 3 months ago
Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 147
Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA,…
2 years, 3 months ago
Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
Episode 64
In this episode, Peoples & Thing host Lee Vinsel interviews engineer, businessman, consultant, author, contributing editor at IEEE Magazine, and form…
2 years, 3 months ago