Science & Technology

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Artificial Intelligence about their new books.

Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

September 2, 2026

Divination Engines

Xiaochang Li
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, "Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination" (Polity, 2027)

August 23, 2026

Journalism in the Age of AI

Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds
Hosted by Joanne Kuai
Biology and Evolution

Biology and Evolution

episodes

Interviews with biologists and evolutionary scientists about their new books.

Robert A. Wilson, "Kin Matters: Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2026)

September 10, 2026

Kin Matters

Robert A. Wilson
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Edward Cutler, "This Beautiful Country: How Italy's Nature Shaped Its Culture and Civilisation" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

September 1, 2026

This Beautiful Country

Edward Cutler
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.

Leah C. Stokes, "The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet" (MIT Press, 2026)

September 6, 2026

The Carbon Wave

Leah C. Stokes
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Geomythography: Myth, Landscape and the Roots of Culture" (Luath Press, 2025)

September 6, 2026

Scotland's Geomythography

Stuart McHardy
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
History of Science

History of Science

episodes

Interviews with historians of science about their new books.

Erin Maglaquel "Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body" (Astra House, 2026)

September 8, 2026

Presence

Erin Maglaque
Hosted by Elspeth Currie
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)

September 8, 2026

Nary a Horse Left Standing

Lee Alan Dugatkin
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Mathematics

Mathematics

episodes

Interviews with mathematicians about their new books.

Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

September 2, 2026

Divination Engines

Xiaochang Li
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Richard Elwes, "Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7" (Basic Books, 2026)

May 22, 2026

Huge Numbers

Richard Elwes
Hosted by Gregory McNiff
Medicine

Medicine

episodes

Interviews with doctors and scholars of medicine about their new books.

Ben Westhoff ed.,"Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy" (Arsenault Family Foundation, 2026)

September 9, 2026

Lives Interrupted

Ben Westhoff
Hosted by Emily Dufton
Erin Maglaquel "Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body" (Astra House, 2026)

September 8, 2026

Presence

Erin Maglaque
Hosted by Elspeth Currie
Neuroscience

Neuroscience

episodes

Interviews with neuroscientists about their new books

Mark Solms, "The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing" (Pegasus, 2026)

August 14, 2026

The Only Cure

Mark Solms
Hosted by Philip Lance
The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez

July 30, 2026

The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Physics and Chemistry

Physics and Chemistry

episodes

Interviews with physicists and chemists about their new books.

Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)

June 28, 2026

Chain Reaction

Ijeoma Uchegbu
Hosted by Gregory McNiff
Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell, "Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration" (U California Press, 2026)

May 30, 2026

Art-Science Undisciplined

Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

episodes

Interviews with psychoanalysts about their new books.

Rachel Aviv, "You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters" (Knopf, 2026)

September 7, 2026

You Won't Get Free of It

Rachel Aviv
Hosted by Liza Veale
Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" Part 1 (Bloomsbury, 2026)

August 23, 2026

Seriality

Ryan Engley
Hosted by Helena Vissing
Psychology

Psychology

episodes

Interviews with psychologists and scholars of psychology about their new books.

Shaun Gallagher, "The Self and its Disorders" (Oxford UP, 2024)

September 4, 2026

The Self and its Disorders

Shaun Gallagher
Hosted by Anya Daly
Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser

August 20, 2026

Happy to Help

Amy Wilson
Public Health

Public Health

episodes

Interviews with scholars of public health about their new books

Ben Westhoff ed.,"Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy" (Arsenault Family Foundation, 2026)

September 9, 2026

Lives Interrupted

Ben Westhoff
Hosted by Emily Dufton
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)

September 8, 2026

Nary a Horse Left Standing

Lee Alan Dugatkin
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Science

Science

episodes

Interviews with scientists about their new books.

Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

September 5, 2026

Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?

Robert Shum
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

August 28, 2026

Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel

Shai Lavi ed., et al.
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Science, Technology, and Society

Science, Technology, and Society

episodes

Interviews with scholars of science, technology and society about their new books.

Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)

September 8, 2026

Nary a Horse Left Standing

Lee Alan Dugatkin
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)

September 7, 2026

Data-Driven Hollywood

Violaine Roussel
Hosted by Pete Kunze
Systems and Cybernetics

Systems and Cybernetics

episodes

Interviews with scholars of systems and cybernetics about their new books.

Elizabeth Sawin, "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" (Island Press, 2024)

October 11, 2025

Multisolving

Elizabeth Sawin
Hosted by Michael Simpson
Technology

Technology

episodes

Interviews with technologists and scholars of technology about their new books.

Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)

September 7, 2026

Data-Driven Hollywood

Violaine Roussel
Hosted by Pete Kunze
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)

September 3, 2026

Artificial Historians

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Anne Martin, and Lewis Yarlupurka O'Brien
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki
Philosophy of Medicine

Philosophy of Medicine

episodes

Interviews with authors and scholars of the philosophy of medicine.

The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller

August 13, 2026

The New Modern Medicine

Jonathan Fuller
Hosted by Alex Broadbent
Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

February 15, 2026

Making Medical Progress

Vanessa Rampton
Hosted by Miranda Melcher