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Thecuriousmanspodcast

Mar 21, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with author Dana Sachs about her book, All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis. In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, the greatest human displacement in Europe...


Mar 17, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with Software Engineer, technologist and author David Auerbach about his book, Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities. As we increasingly rely on and integrate our society, culture, politics and finances within a hyper-networked fabric,...


Mar 16, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with author Lauren Kay Johnson about her book, The Fine Art of Camouflage. Born and raised in a family with a military legacy it wasn't a given that Johnson would serve in the armed services. September 11th helped to make that decision and Johnson decided to serve in the Air Force. As an...


Mar 15, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with author Adele Bertei about her book, Twist: An American Girl. Adele Bertei takes us back to her childhood and the movement that was the 60's and 70's. Spoken through her shield of an avatar Maddie Twist, Bertei takes us back to her childhood growing up poor with an ill mother and an...


Mar 14, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with author Rebecca Heisman about her book, Flight Paths. For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been trying to unravel the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling vast distances and heights. Heisman takes us through that study and evolution over...