This episode features an interview with MIT Press author Varun Sivaram about his new book Taming the Sun. Varun Sivaram is the Philip D. Reed Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations. He teaches “Clean Energy Innovation” at Georgetown University, is a Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy, and serves on Stanford University's energy and environment boards. He has advised both the mayor of Los Angeles and the governor of New York on energy and was formerly a consultant at McKinsey & Co. He holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. PV Magazine called him “The Hamilton of the Solar Industry,” Forbes named him one of its 30 under 30, and Grist selected him as one of the top 50 leaders in sustainability.
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The History of Contraception with Donna J Drucker
Technologies of the Human Corpse with John Troyer
Haunted Bauhaus with Elizabeth Otto
Free Will with Mark Balaguer
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Citizenship with Dimitry Kochenov
New Beginnings: A Conversation with Ludo Waltman
Strong Ideas from MIT Libraries and the MIT Press
Experiments in Open Peer Review
How Attention Works
Garage: A Conversation with Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela
Ways of Hearing: Making-of
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Food Routes with Robyn Metcalfe
Discussions on Open Access: Open Access Models and Experimentation
Discussions on Open Access: Open Science Tools
Discussions on Open Access: OA at MIT
Discussions on Open Access: Frankenbook and OA Publishing
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