Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNet Smart: How to Thrive Online
Episode 147
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal suc…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 166
Routledge Handbook of Rewilding (Routledge, 2022) provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and current practices of ‘rewilding’. Rewi…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Episode 146
Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Comm…
2 years, 8 months ago
Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 90
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple.
In Nuts …
2 years, 8 months ago
Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI
Episode 132
Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around trac…
2 years, 8 months ago
Networked: The New Social Operating System
Episode 145
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tw…
2 years, 8 months ago
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
Episode 143
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding …
2 years, 8 months ago
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Episode 142
Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. C…
2 years, 8 months ago
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
Episode 139
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 112
Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glo…
2 years, 8 months ago