Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJanna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 67
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established …
2 years, 9 months ago
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 130
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Ph…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Episode 132
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached …
2 years, 9 months ago
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 107
The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet (Rutgers University Press, 2023) by Dr. Randall Patnode traces the histo…
2 years, 9 months ago
Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
Episode 52
This is the second Peoples & Things episode featuring a guest host. In this case, it is M. R. “Mols” Sauter, an assistant professor of information st…
2 years, 9 months ago
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 24
Sleep was taking over Anna's life. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fif…
2 years, 9 months ago
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
Episode 203
Medical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless delays…
2 years, 9 months ago
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Episode 121
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and pla…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
Episode 116
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustibl…
2 years, 10 months ago
Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 9
In this episode, our host Lucila Rozas discusses the book Latino TV: A History (2022) by Mary Beltrán.
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A brief trajectory of the bo…2 years, 10 months ago