Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHelle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 345
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, S…
2 years, 10 months ago
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation …
2 years, 10 months ago
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 1331
Despite uncertain beginnings, public broadcasting emerged as a noncommercial media industry that transformed American culture. In Shadow of the New D…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
Episode 51
Historian Paula de la Cruz-Fernandez talks about her book, Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-…
2 years, 10 months ago
Metadata
Episode 106
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered…
2 years, 10 months ago
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 106
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damage…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 131
Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near …
2 years, 10 months ago
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
Episode 108
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companie…
2 years, 10 months ago
Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
Episode 130
Kant denied biology the status of a proper science, yet his account of the organism profoundly influenced a range of intellectual disciplines.
Andrew…
2 years, 10 months ago
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Episode 111
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some c…
2 years, 10 months ago