Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)

Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its origins from the 1970s to today, this timely book examines the evolution of food porn as a desire-inducing aesthetic practice and a visua ...  Show more

In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reader a simple question: Is our economy a ladder or a lottery? Are people able to control their position on the economic spectrum by their act ...  Show more

If there’s one symbol of the COVID fight it’s the face mask – but do we understand the consequences of a masked society? Professor Graham Martin, Director of Research at the Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, tells Ros Taylor why the issue of masks isn’t as clear-cut as we ...  Show more

What do we actually know about virus transmissibility, the efficacy of face masks, and the implications of wearing a face covering? It turns out, it takes a lot of work to get to the bottom of what the data truly says. Articles circulating on social media are often misleading—omi ...  Show more

On a more serious note, the guys discuss the metaphorical mask, which social situations we put on masks, and whether those masked versions of us are truly us... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

In this episode of Podverse: This week is a response to an email request. So we start off with a bit of clarification. We then dig into my beliefs about masks. If masks should be worn and where, I rehash some of the arguments about masks. We look at whose rights are being infring ...  Show more