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About Sarah Kearns

sarah kearns is a writer, open scholarship/education advocate, and former microscopist. currently she's an acquisitions editor for an open scholarship publishing group. when she's not scribbling in the margins of books, sarah also enjoys hiking, eating local food, existentially staring into the void, and is slowly working on a children's book.

Sarah Kearns (@annotated_sci) reads about scholarship, the sciences, and philosophy, and is likely drinking mushroom tea.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Sarah:

Christian Studies November 30, 2022

How to Inhabit Time

Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

James K. A. Smith

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
In this episode, we chat with Dr. James Smith, a professor of philosophy at Calvin University about his most recent book How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future …
Literature June 1, 2022

Watkins Glen

Eleanor Lerman

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Watkins Glen (Mayapple Press, 2021) is the story of Susan -- a woman in her sixties -- who finds herself taking care of her estranged older brother Mark, who has …
Psychology April 8, 2022

Depression Hates a Moving Target

How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink

Nita Sweeney

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Nita Sweeney’s struggle with bipolar disorder and grief had overtaken her life when she decided to take her beloved dog and try running, even though she doubted she could …
Psychology March 31, 2022

The Blindspots Between Us

How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships

Gleb Tsipursky

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
We all want positive, healthy, and genuine relationships whether it's with family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to get stuck …
Science, Technology, and Society January 20, 2022

What The Living Know

A Novel of Suicide and Philosophy

Matthew C. Kruger

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Now that science has granted eternal life and youth to all, the world is a place of endless opportunity to live out one's dreams and fulfill one's desires. With death unnecessary …
Digital Humanities December 22, 2021

Living Books

Experiments in the Posthumanities

Janneke Adema

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
In Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021), Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project -- not as linear, bound …
Science, Technology, and Society November 16, 2021

Alien Listening

Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth

Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space, and it remains the only human-made object to have left the solar system. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts contained world …
Digital Humanities October 7, 2021

Along Came Google

A History of Library Digitization

Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of …
Literary Studies September 3, 2021

Beyond Conversation

Collaboration and the Production of Writing

William Duffy

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
In Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing (Utah State UP, 2021), William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the growing interest in collaboration within digital and …
Digital Humanities July 15, 2021

Technology and the Historian

Transformations in the Digital Age

Adam Crymble

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical research is practiced. In his new book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age …
Science, Technology, and Society June 7, 2021

Objectivity

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Turns out "objectivity" has a not-so clear-cut definition across time. In this podcast, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison to discuss their work, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2010). This work traces the historical and …
Science, Technology, and Society April 23, 2021

The Hidden Lives of Owls

The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds

Leigh Calvez

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Join naturalist and science writer Leigh Calvez on her adventures into science and spirit of animals, as we discuss her two recent books: The Hidden Lives of Owls, and The Breath of the …