New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2586 Episodes

1. Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75

   Published: 10/23/2024
2. Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)

   Published: 10/23/2024
3. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/21/2024
4. Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age

   Published: 10/21/2024
5. Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

   Published: 10/21/2024
6. Emotional Rescue

   Published: 10/21/2024
7. William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/17/2024
8. Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/17/2024
9. Alastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/16/2024
10. Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 10/15/2024
11. Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)

    Published: 10/12/2024
12. Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)

    Published: 10/9/2024
13. Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)

    Published: 10/9/2024
14. Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li

    Published: 10/8/2024
15. John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)

    Published: 10/8/2024
16. Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology

    Published: 10/7/2024
17. Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 10/6/2024
18. Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)

    Published: 10/6/2024
19. Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 10/5/2024
20. Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 10/3/2024