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Ventricles
by Shireen Hamza
Ventricles explores topics related to science and technology, from the past, the present and how we imagine the future, in a global context. 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 natural world.Ventricles is a podcast written and produced by Shireen Hamza in 2019 for the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School. We'd love to hear your thoughts -- write to me at [email protected]
Episodes
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Jungle Laboratories
This episode concludes season one of Ventricles Podcast. We continue our series on politics in the history of technology in this episode. Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga explains the central role that Mexico played in the creation of the birth control pill, a history that has often been told…
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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 history of communications technologies in Chile, during the socialist government of Salvador Allende, in the early 1970s. She explains how the...
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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 exist in only one part of the world, and not another? Why do so many treatments in the history of Western medicine seem bizarre to us now? This…
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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 imaginaries of the future of the Middle East. He starts by discussing the story, Kahramana, from the recent short-story collection edited by…
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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, Professor Eli Nelson explains the story of the Hokule‘a, a double-hulled voyaging canoe launched in 1975 to understand and recover the navigation…
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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 history of coins can help us understand the history of digital currencies, something we perceive to be a radical break from the past. We start the...
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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 Ayurveda, an ancient medicine of South Asia. In this episode, Professor Projit Mukharji tells us how the pulse has been understood by Ayurvedic...
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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 diagnostic tool in both Greek and Chinese medicine. In this episode, Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama discusses the history of the pulse in these two...
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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 cultures? In this episode, Dr. Sara Schechner, a historian of astronomy and an artist who has made sundials herself, speaks about the history of...
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Ventricles explores topics related to science and technology, from the past, the present and how we imagine the future, in a global context. 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 natural world.Ventricles is a podcast written and produced by Shireen Hamza in 2019 for the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School. We'd love to hear your thoughts -- write to me at [email protected]
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Ventricles explores topics related to science and technology, from the past, the present and how we imagine the future, in a global context. Featuring interviews with scholars working at the intersection of science, religion and culture, Ventricles explores the many ways that people know and have...
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