Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus.Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation o...
5 Mar 202312min
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
In this episode Chris Gondek speaks with author Tom Mullaney on the invention of the Chinese typewriter, and how the characters originally utilized are still the ones available on modern keyboards.Chi...
4 Mar 202326min
Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves
The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 rocked the science community. In this episode, Chris Gondek spoke with author Harry Collins, whose book Gravity's Kiss centers around the incredible discov...
3 Mar 202320min
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
In this episode Chris Gondek interviews Ed Finn, author of the new book What Algorithms Want. Tune in for an interesting discussion on algorithm disconnect revolving around things humans regularly use...
2 Mar 202323min
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media
In this episode, author Ryan Milner talks to Chris Gondak about the rise of the internet meme, and the five logics that factor into the foundation, growth, and success of a meme.Internet memes--digita...
1 Mar 202324min
What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting against gentrification. ...
28 Feb 202323min
Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy
In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream politics. In Indonesia, Muslim absolutists urge suppre...
27 Feb 202317min
Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
In What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything (MIT Press, 2022), Philippe Schlenker takes readers on tour of meaning, from the animal kingdom to human culture, arguing that semantics should ...
25 Feb 20231h
