Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 1342
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in whi…
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Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 157
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellb…
2 years, 8 months ago
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Episode 56
Gretchen Sorin, Director and Distinguished Professor of the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York - Oneonta, talks about h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 348
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the comple…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Episode 135
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video g…
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Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Episode 347
The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbu…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
Episode 72
The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Dougla…
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Robot Futures
Episode 134
With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyon…
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Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Episode 130
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie an…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Episode 128
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that scienc…
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