New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2587 Episodes

1. Jacob Steere-Williams, "The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England" (U Rochester Press, 2020)

   Published: 2/19/2021
2. Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 2/18/2021
3. Alan Lightman, "Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings" (Pantheon, 2021)

   Published: 2/18/2021
4. S. Carlsson and J. Leijonhufvud, "The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance" (Diversion Books, 2021)

   Published: 2/18/2021
5. David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)

   Published: 2/17/2021
6. Emily Willingham, "Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis" (Avery, 2020)

   Published: 2/17/2021
7. Hannah Marcus, "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

   Published: 2/16/2021
8. Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 2/16/2021
9. Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, "Vera Rubin: A Life" (Harvard UP, 2021)

   Published: 2/16/2021
10. Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 2/15/2021
11. Nathaniel Greenberg, "How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/12/2021
12. Jeremy Black, "A History of the 20th Century: Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'roll" (Sirius Entertainment, 2021)

    Published: 2/12/2021
13. Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 2/10/2021
14. Nina Jankowicz, "How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

    Published: 2/10/2021
15. Tara Fickle, "The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities" (NYU Press, 2019)

    Published: 2/9/2021
16. Jennifer M. Rampling, "The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

    Published: 2/8/2021
17. Ethan Lou, "Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" (Signal, 2020)

    Published: 2/5/2021
18. Michael Rossi, "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America" (Chicago UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/5/2021
19. Matthieu Ricard, "A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion" (Shambhala, 2016)

    Published: 2/5/2021
20. Earl Wright II, "Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology" (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)

    Published: 2/5/2021