Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMike 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 81
What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to …
2 years, 4 months ago
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 333
For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying inf…
2 years, 4 months ago
Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles
Episode 152
Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. We talk about how organizations shape people, a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 247
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant w…
2 years, 4 months ago
Curtis Fox, "Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict" (30 Press Publishing, 2023)
Episode 222
The on-going war in Ukraine continues to highlight the distinct differences between how Russia operates large-scale military operations from the usua…
2 years, 4 months ago
Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)
Episode 1410
Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterize random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant distu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)
Episode 211
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women’s bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt …
2 years, 5 months ago
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 5
A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.
The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health…
2 years, 5 months ago