Matt Wisnioski and I recently spoke about his great new book on the myriad ways that engineers navigated new landscapes of technology and its discontents in 1960s America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Engineers for Change: An Interview
Emma Spary and I spoke recently about her new book on the science and cultures of food in France during the long 18th century. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Eating the Enlightenment: An Interview
Deborah Coen and I recently talked about her fascinating new book on earthquakes, observation, and the science of disaster in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Earthquake Observers: An Interview
Joel Isaac and I recently talked about his new book on Kuhn, the human sciences, and the “interstitial academy.” You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Working Knowledge: An Interview
Chris Beckwith and I recently talked about his new book on the recursive method, the history of science, and Central Asia. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Warriors of the Cloisters: An Interview
[via Printculture] The wonderful Cabinet magazine hosted a performed bestiary one recent afternoon at the New Museum. For 4.5 hours, a small group of writers, artists, professors, curators, and others talked about a series of creatures in order from smallest (ant) to largest (whale). We each had 10 minutes. It was an absolute blast. To represent my creature, the phoenix, I wrote and read a short story based on … Continue reading Read to Me 2: The One Who Claws At His Names
Michel Gordin and I recently talked about his new book on Immanuel Velikovsky, the “first grand wizard of the Universal Order of Mass Pseudo-Scholarship,” and science at the margins in Cold War America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Pseudo-Science Wars: An Interview
Katy Price and I recently talked about her engaging and elegantly written new book on the engagement with Einsteinian relativity by various reading publics in early twentieth-century Britain. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Loving Faster Than Light: An Interview
Janice Neri and I recently talked about her beautiful new book on the imaging of insects in early modernity and its surprisingly wide-ranging consequences for understanding the history of science, art, and global exchange. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Insect and the Image: An Interview
I had the pleasure of speaking with Sally Smith Hughes recently about her book on the history of Genentech and the business of recombinant DNA technology. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Genentech: An Interview
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