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About Frances Sacks
I recently graduated from Wesleyan University where I majored in the Science and Society Program.
Frances Sacks is a graduate of Wesleyan University where she studied in the Science and Society Program.
NBN Episodes hosted by Frances:
July 13, 2023
How to Speak Whale
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached o…
July 4, 2023
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) is unique among the many books about polyamory b…
June 21, 2023
The Chastity Plot
In The Chastity Plot (U Chicago Press, 2021), Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its…
June 20, 2023
El Porvenir, ¡Ya!
Mexican American writers make their mark in Science Fiction literature! In this first of a kind anthology, written solely by Mexican Americans, we are…
May 28, 2023
Armageddon
A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar, reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.You’ll find n…
May 24, 2023
Stroller
Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stro…
May 21, 2023
We Have Always Been Cyborgs
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic t…
April 4, 2023
Whale Music
Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility…
March 27, 2023
The Mountain in the Sea
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominat…
June 10, 2022
Sound and Affect
Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World (U Chicago Press, 2021) maps a new territory for inquiry at the intersection of music, philosophy, affect theory…
May 25, 2022
Street Scriptures
Today I speak with Alejandro Nava about his new book, Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop (U Chicago Press, 2022). This book explores an import…
May 4, 2022
A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracke…
April 4, 2022
Science Fiction
The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices…
March 6, 2022
Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies
I spoke with Hannah Star Rogers, one of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2021). Art and scien…