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Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 59:01 -
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:04:57 -
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Apr 18, 2025 – 01:11:14 -
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
Apr 17, 2025 – 01:08:53 -
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:01:55 -
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 15, 2025 – 46:06 -
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 13, 2025 – 40:40 -
Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Apr 12, 2025 – 32:57 -
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults
Apr 10, 2025 – 47:45 -
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
Apr 9, 2025 – 01:10:10 -
Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025)
Apr 8, 2025 – 41:59 -
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:36:29 -
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Apr 6, 2025 – 01:15:07 -
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
Apr 5, 2025 – 53:43 -
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 3, 2025 – 47:02 -
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 2, 2025 – 27:23 -
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Apr 1, 2025 – 40:47 -
Making Radio History
Mar 31, 2025 – 01:07:07 -
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025 – 44:31 -
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Mar 29, 2025 – 01:00:21 -
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
Mar 28, 2025 – 35:41 -
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 27, 2025 – 57:44 -
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Mar 26, 2025 – 25:18 -
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
Mar 26, 2025 – 01:05:45 -
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 25, 2025 – 01:17:10 -
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Mar 24, 2025 – 51:34 -
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
Mar 24, 2025 – 59:23 -
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 23, 2025 – 01:09:09 -
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025 – 48:16 -
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)
Mar 16, 2025 – 49:18 -
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
Mar 14, 2025 – 43:20 -
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Mar 13, 2025 – 38:42 -
Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 12, 2025 – 01:00:10 -
Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)
Mar 11, 2025 – 45:05 -
M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 10, 2025 – 52:44 -
On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 10, 2025 – 42:55 -
Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
Mar 10, 2025 – 01:00:19 -
Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”
Mar 10, 2025 – 58:08 -
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 8, 2025 – 46:50 -
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 8, 2025 – 52:10 -
Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:07:29 -
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:18:56 -
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 7, 2025 – 39:52 -
Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)
Mar 5, 2025 – 01:00:19 -
Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
Mar 4, 2025 – 20:09 -
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 3, 2025 – 58:01 -
Sonic AI
Mar 3, 2025 – 37:57 -
Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Mar 3, 2025 – 36:05 -
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 2, 2025 – 01:17:33 -
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 1, 2025 – 55:17
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