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Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton UP, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other is valuable and worth preserving. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from ph… Play episode

Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State with Ge…
Communicating Cyber Risk: Build Cyber Resilience Through Compelling Commun…
Our AI Moment
Romantic Media and Wartime Networks with Deven Parker (Stanford UP, 2026)
Research: A Manifesto by Peter N. Miller (Princeton UP, 2026)
Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servan…
Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media with Niall Doc…
Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Cho…
AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony …
Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use
In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anth…
Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U Califor…
Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, an…
"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines" with Yasmín Hern…
Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X…
Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with A…
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with Jam…
“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul
Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Break…
Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation i…
Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future F…
Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century E…
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of …
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial…
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New S…
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise…
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and t…
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the…
Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revol…
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Me…
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Arch…
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Cent…
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in th…
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine w…
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Archit…
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhsta…
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postw…

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