Jungle Laboratories
In our final episode of season one, Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga explains the central role that Mexico played in the creation of the birth control ...
Ventricles
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Each week, Ventricles introduces an interesting topic about science and technology, from the past, the present and sometimes (how we imagine) the future. Featuring interviews with scholars working at the intersection of science, religion and culture, Ventricles explores the many ways that people know and have known the world. Ventricles is a new podcast written and produced by Shireen Hamza for the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School. We'd love to hear your thoughts -- write to us at ventriclespodcast.src@gmail.com
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
How are technologies shaped by political needs, and how do technologies enable new kinds of politics? In this episode, Professor Eden Medina tells the...
Why is There a History of Medicine?
If the human body has remained the same in the past few thousand years, why have our approaches to its treatment varied so much? How can an ailment ex...
Imagining Iraq
What will Iraq be like, 100 years in the future? How are Muslim women imagined in the future? In this episode, Professor Ahmed Ragab explores literary...
Canoes in Space
What can we learn about space exploration from Polynesian voyaging, or wayfinding? How does a frontier differ from a horizon? In this episode, Profess...
Coins, Medieval and Digital
What is money, and how is it changing? And what do bitcoins have in common with medieval coins? In this episode, Gili Vidan explains how the long hist...
Vaidyas with Wristwatches
How do everyday technologies change our understanding of our own bodies? The pulse is a diagnostic tool common to many medical traditions, including A...
The Pulse
The body has many rhythms, but the pulse is one that people have paid close attention to. Over the last two millennia, the pulse has been used as a di...
Telling Time
How have humans kept track of time? What technologies have they developed to tell time, and how have they been influenced by religious and scientific ...