Peoples & Things
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Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology.
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Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett on Audio Art, Wonder, and Humanistic Reasoning
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May 04, 2026 |
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Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Julien Mailland on "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry"
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Tiia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
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May 19, 2025 |
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Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
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May 05, 2025 |
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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Mike Sacasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Raquel Velho on Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Bryan Hanson on Disrupting Academic Bullying
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May 27, 2024 |
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MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
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May 06, 2024 |
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Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Taste of Water: A Conversation with Christy Spackman
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Forty Years of Technology Studies
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The Politics of Bicycling
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The History of Student Loans in the United States
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Why It’s So Hard for Us to Subtract
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Inventing American Telecommunications
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The History of Teletherapy
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Business in Socialist Hungary
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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The History of Electricity in Mexico
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The Archaeology of Innovation
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Engineering and Social Justice
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The History of Temp Work
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Deafness “Cures” in History
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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The Thought of Ivan Illich
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Automating Finance
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Ideology of Innovation in India
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Infrastructure and Inequality
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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The Politics of Digital Technology
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Understanding Technology Bubbles
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
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Jan 09, 2023 |