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Daniel Bergner, "The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches" (Ecco, 2022)
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2022-08-04
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Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
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2022-08-04
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The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers
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2022-08-03
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Ellis Jones, "DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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2022-08-03
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Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
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2022-08-02
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Lost Utopias: A History of World’s Fairs
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2022-08-01
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Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
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2022-08-01
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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
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2022-07-29
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Erica Gies, "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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2022-07-29
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The Battle of Buxton: Saving a Lighthouse in the Era of Climate Change
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2022-07-28
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Lachlan Fleetwood, "Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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2022-07-28
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Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
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2022-07-28
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James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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2022-07-27
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Nic Maclellan, "Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests" (ANU Press, 2017)
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2022-07-27
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Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
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2022-07-26
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Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
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2022-07-25
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Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
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2022-07-25
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Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
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2022-07-22
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Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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2022-07-21
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Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
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2022-07-20
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