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The main part of the show is an interview with sociologist Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. Additionally, she is the founder of the JUST DATA Lab and author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and Race After Technology (Polity), and editor of Captivating Technology (Duke). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, and health and justice. These are the topics discussed in the interview.
The interview is in three parts, beginning about 53 minutes in.
Science News:
- IN MICE, the excellent Twitter feed
- Promising malaria vaccine to be tested in first large field trial, Nature News, April 2019
- First “Marsquake” Detected on Red Planet, Scientific American, April 2019
These Vibes Are Too Cosmic 