Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.Most people think of mathematics as a set of u...
10 Aug 20211h 4min
John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020)
What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of Science, answers that question in his ge...
23 Jul 20211h 2min
Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological modeling to...
22 Jul 202144min
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination--not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bo...
19 Jul 20211h 5min
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination--not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bo...
19 Jul 20211h 5min
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Vall...
9 Jul 20211h 19min
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
Today I talked to Jessica Helfand about her new book Face: A Visual Odyssey (MIT Press, 2019)Helfand is a designer, artist, and author. She’s taught at Yale University for more than 20 years, cofounde...
17 Jun 202132min
W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art beg...
9 Jun 202155min
