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episode 182: Dominic Boyer, "No More Fossils" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
An interview with Dominic Boyer
episode 231: Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
An interview with Marc Masters
episode 68: Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Guru Madhavan, Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs at the National Academy of Engineering, about his recent book, Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024). In Wicked Problems, Madhavan draws on a rich body of literature from the humanities and social sciences to think through how engineers can do a better job working on problems that include complex social and technical realities...
episode 28: Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
An interview with Max Bennett
episode 94: Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
An interview with Claudia de Rham
episode 117: Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
Jundo Cohen is a Zen Buddhist teacher and founder of Treeleaf Zendo, a digital Zen community with members in over 50 countries. He writes on the intersection of Buddhism, ethics, science, and the future of the planet. He resides in Tsukuba, Japan’s “Science City”. He is the author of The Zen Master’s Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You Are in the Universe (Wisdom, 2020), and is co-host of The Zen of Everything podcast...
episode 77: Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
An interview with Matthew H. Hersch
episode 348: Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Ya-Wen Lei
episode 128: Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
An interview with Robert Willim
episode 168: Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024)
An interview with Emma Frances Bloomfield