Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…
2 years, 8 months ago
Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1350
On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane—the Yankee Clipper—took off from New York and island-hopped its way across the Atlant…
2 years, 8 months ago
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 353
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 185…
2 years, 8 months ago
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 206
The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as 19…
2 years, 8 months ago
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 102
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on …
2 years, 8 months ago
Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (Hülsbusch, 2023)
Episode 208
The relationship between madness and video games has been notoriously tense. In an abundance of titles, stereotypes and stigmatisations can be found—…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
Episode 151
What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by ev…
2 years, 8 months ago
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
Episode 150
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed…
2 years, 8 months ago
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing
Episode 134
Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts discusses the how advancements in artificial intelligence are shaping academic publishing. Avi offers v…
2 years, 8 months ago
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
Episode 57
Economist, historian, and author Marc Levinson talks about his book, Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas …
2 years, 8 months ago