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Science & Technology
June 10, 2026
Making Do
Modern environmentalism often frames conservation as moral, humans damage nature, and conservation protects it. But Mardi Reardon-Smith’s Making Do: C…
June 9, 2026
The 21st Century in 100 Games
The 21st Century in 100 Games (Routledge India, 2024) is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling o…
June 9, 2026
The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema
How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment. Drawing on sound studies and performance…
June 8, 2026
The Clintons, Tech, and Memory
We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become an…
June 8, 2026
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
How queer men in Kazakhstan navigate dating apps in a context of stigma, surveillance, and limited legal protections. It shows how platforms like Grin…
June 8, 2026
Explosivity
Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity: Following What Remains (U Minnesota Press, 2025) unearths the hidden leg…
June 7, 2026
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin
"Deep Time," a way of understanding the distant past popularized in the late 20th century by the writer John McPhee, changes our perspective on histor…
June 7, 2026
Understanding Sensory Differences
Children and teens who experience sensory differences often find it difficult to understand their sensory system and sensory/regulation needs they may…
June 6, 2026
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational…
June 6, 2026
Smog and Sunshine
Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. From the 1940s through the 1980s, children breathed air so heavy with lead that their blood…
June 5, 2026
Microphone
Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily li…
June 5, 2026
The Life You Want
Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do - and fail to do - about actually getting them? In The Life You Want Adam Phillips u…
June 4, 2026
In Search of Trustworthy AI
Craig Hatkoff has spent four decades at the intersection of innovation, culture-building, and institutional transformation. He pioneered commercial mo…
June 4, 2026
Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…
June 3, 2026
Critical Care
The claim that real change is enabled by grassroots, community-based movements might seem a distant ideal, but Dr Geraldine Fela shows such assertions…
June 2, 2026
Unlimited
Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the fir…
June 2, 2026
The Concept of Emotional Disorder
Depression and anxiety are increasingly commonly diagnosed mental health conditions in modern society, but where does the boundary between ordinary em…
June 1, 2026
Picky
Are children naturally picky? It sure seems that way. Yet, amazingly, pickiness used to be almost nonexistent. Well into the 20th century, Americans s…
May 31, 2026
Seeking Abundance
Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improvi…
May 30, 2026
The Filthiest Village in Europe
The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2026) traces how a community shrouded …