New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2584 Episodes

1. Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 2/27/2025
2. Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)

   Published: 2/27/2025
3. The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today

   Published: 2/26/2025
4. Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America

   Published: 2/24/2025
5. In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion

   Published: 2/22/2025
6. Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 2/21/2025
7. Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/20/2025
8. Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)

   Published: 2/19/2025
9. The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

   Published: 2/19/2025
10. Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 2/19/2025
11. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/19/2025
12. Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)

    Published: 2/17/2025
13. Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/16/2025
14. Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/15/2025
15. Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/15/2025
16. Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/14/2025
17. Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)

    Published: 2/13/2025
18. Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)

    Published: 2/10/2025
19. Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/10/2025
20. Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 2/10/2025