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Recent Guests

Jon Lindsay
Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech
Episode: Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Rob Gallagher
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College, London.
King's College London
Episode: Rob Gallagher, "Artgames after GamerGate" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Dr. Jennifer Vail
A tribologist who studies friction
Harvard University Press
Episode: Jennifer Vail, "Friction: A Biography" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Andreas Killen
Professor of History at City College New York, author of 'Nervous Systems', and expert in modern European history and the history of science, medicine, and psychiatry.
City College New York
Episode: Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
John Rudolph
Distinguished professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Episode: John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
LiLi Johnson
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and English at Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University
Episode: LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)
Professor Michelle Henning
Professor in Photography and Media at the University of Liverpool, and author of A Dirty History of Photography.
University of Liverpool
Episode: Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Alyssa Loh
Filmmaker and co-director of the short film "Twelve Theses on Attention"
Episode: The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)
D. Graham Burnett
Professor of the History of Science at Princeton University
Princeton University
Episode: The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host of New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, and co-host of New Books in Science, Technology, and Society.

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4.3 out of 5 stars from 75 ratings
  • Excellent, but please fix the audio

    Excellent content, but the audio of the introductory part is disturbed by static noise. Thankfully the introduction is pretty short. The audio of the interview is much better. I think it would be wise to get a new microphone.

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LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)
Q: What do you think are the drives from the customer side and the marketing strategies from the companies or from the commercial operation side?
Many consumers seek genetic testing as it provides seemingly objective answers to complex questions about race, identity, and family connections.
LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)
Q: So there's this sort of bifurcation of the sort of upper-the-mobile East Asian families, and then you have this sort of refugee migration that's coming out of the wars in Southeast Asia. Can you elaborate on that?
There was a lot of anxiety about the model minority narrative connecting both types of immigration which were categorized under the broad Asian American label.
LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)
Q: So what first motivated you to start this project and how did it come about into a book?
This was my dissertation while I was working on my PhD in American Studies, focused on Asian American family and kinship and integrating science and technology studies.
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
Q: How did the Italians end up getting access to secret American codebooks and cipher tables?
The Italians had a smaller codebreaking agency but excelled at breaking into embassies and stealing documents, including codebooks, before the war.
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
Q: What was Alan Turing's contribution to breaking the Enigma?
Turing designed a machine that ran through numerous possible settings of the Enigma to decrypt messages, though he was part of a collaborative effort that built on earlier Polish work.

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