New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2587 Episodes

1. Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults

   Published: 4/10/2025
2. Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"

   Published: 4/9/2025
3. Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025)

   Published: 4/8/2025
4. Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)

   Published: 4/7/2025
5. John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/6/2025
6. James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI

   Published: 4/5/2025
7. Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/3/2025
8. Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/2/2025
9. Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/1/2025
10. Making Radio History

    Published: 3/31/2025
11. Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/30/2025
12. The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

    Published: 3/29/2025
13. Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)

    Published: 3/28/2025
14. Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/27/2025
15. Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots

    Published: 3/26/2025
16. Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)

    Published: 3/26/2025
17. Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/25/2025
18. Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles

    Published: 3/24/2025
19. The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success

    Published: 3/24/2025
20. Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/23/2025