Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena. The body is central to our sense of id...
3 Apr 202338min
Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture
In Break On Through, Lucas Richert explores Anti-psychiatry, psychedelics, and radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. In this interview Lucas di...
2 Apr 202332min
Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience
The intersection between cutting-edge neuroscience and the emerging field of network science has been growing tremendously over the past decade. Olaf Sporns, editor of Network Neuroscience, and Distin...
2 Apr 202313min
The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Effectiveness
Listen as Peter Krause and Sean Lynn-Jones discuss the key differences between united and hegemonic power and the internal structure of violent and nonviolent national movements, as outlined in Krause...
1 Apr 202344min
Nationalism and Nature in Henry David Thoreau's "Walking”
Listen as Andrew Menard and Laura Dassow Walls discuss the notions of walking, wildness, nationalism, and the role of beauty in Thoreau's "Walking." This conversation was recorded on February 27, 2014...
31 Mar 202342min
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world. Ever-pe...
31 Mar 202322min
Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts
Our contributors discuss their work in the arts and sciences, which is showcased in the new article collection, Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts. Water Is in th...
30 Mar 202332min
Sybil Ludington, Material Culture, and American Mythmaking
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of a lovely feminine Paul Revere... Marla R. Miller and Paula D. Hunt discuss Sybil Ludington, material culture, and American mythmaking. Although there is no p...
29 Mar 202330min
