How are sports teams using data science? Harvard Data Science Review Podcast discusses with Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale (formerly Carnegie Mellon University) and Kirk Goldsberry, NBA analyst at ESPN and author of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New era of the NBA. [syndicated from HDSR podcast]
Authors and Editors discuss topics, themes, and trends explored within the pages of MIT Press books and journals.
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Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary onto LSD, managed to fundamentally influence modern drug culture whilst remaining virtually anonymous in popular culture at large. In this episode, biographer Andy Roberts talks us through the life of a key character in psychedelic history.
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In this episode Bita Moghaddam discusses the history of ketamine ahead of the publication the book Ketamine, as part of the Essential Knowledge Series.
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This episode leading leukemia specialist and author of When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael A. Sekeres discusses the drugs that allow people to beat cancer and live better with it.
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In this episode academic and author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose, Nancy D Campbell explains one of the defining tragedies of contemporary life; the overdose. She explored the history of drug overdoses and the ways activists to fighting to prevent more deaths.
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Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 brings together urgency and scientific rigor so the world’s researchers can quickly disseminate new discoveries that the public can trust. Amy Brand (Director, The MIT Press) and Vilas Dhar (Trustee, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation) discuss this new overlay journal, its innovative goals, and its role as a proof-of-concept for new models of peer-review and rapid publishing.
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A reading from Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism by Conor Rose. This extract, taken from the opening of the book, offers insight into the Black Lives Matter movement as well as new forms of predatory policing, informed by the 2008 financial crash.
