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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
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2023-10-21
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Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)
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2023-10-21
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Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
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2023-10-20
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Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)
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2023-10-17
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AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation
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2023-10-16
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Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
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2023-10-15
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James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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2023-10-13
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2023-10-13
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Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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2023-10-11
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Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
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2023-10-09
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Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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2023-10-07
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Teaching (and Learning) at a University Online
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2023-10-04
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Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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2023-10-03
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Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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2023-10-02
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Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
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2023-10-02
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Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
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2023-09-29
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Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
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2023-09-28
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Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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2023-09-27
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Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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2023-09-27
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Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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2023-09-27
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