Latest Engines Podcast Episodes
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1165: Count Rumford
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 29, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1165 Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford and the conservation of energy. Today, we meet a Bavarian count who was born in colonial Massachusetts.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1164: Things Bite Back
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 28, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1164 Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge Effect. Today, nature takes revenge.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1163: A Better Mousetrap
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 27, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1163 To build a better mousetrap -- that people will use. Today, let's build a better mousetrap.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1162: Systems
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 26, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1162 Systems: Much more than the sum of their parts. Today, let's see how machines transcend themselves.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1979: Airplane Reservations
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 25, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1979 How to process five thousand airline reservation requests in one second. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd buys plane tickets.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3001: Archimedes To the Rescue
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 24, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3001 Archimedes to the Rescue. Today, Archimedes to the rescue.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 23, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1161: Roman Water Wheel
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 22, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1161 An old Roman mill tells about the acceptance of technology. Today, we try to make sense of an old Roman power plant.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1159: Nevil Shute’s Ordeal
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 21, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1159 In which Nevil Shute looks at the ordeal of aerial bombing. Today, Nevil Shute predicts the chilling anonymity of war.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1158: The Crystal Palace
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 20, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1158 The Crystal Palace, the 1851 exhibition, and Victorian art. Today, we look for art to equal the building that holds it.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1157: Marketing Model A
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 19, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1157 Merchandising Windows 95 and the Ford Model A. Today, we sell Model A's and Windows 95.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1971: Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 18, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1971 In which Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer race to prove Fermat's last theorem. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd relives a race.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 17, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3029 Model Citizen. Today, lets talk about models.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 16, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1156: The Machine as Mirror
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 15, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1156 We mirror machine mirrors we mirror machine mirrors we ... Today, an analogy game.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1154: Adam’s Belly Button
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 14, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1154 In which Adam's navel poses the question of pre-creation history. Today, a silly question about Adam's navel paves the way for evolution.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1153: Grosseteste and Bacon
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 13, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1153 Grosseteste, Bacon, and the rise of realism. Today, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and cyberspace.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1152: Macbeth
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 12, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1152 Macbeth, populism, and insanity. Today, Shakespeare tells us how to stay sane.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1961: The Four-Color Problem
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 11, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1961 The Four-Color Problem -- an strange old puzzle, almost resolved. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd colors maps.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3121: Getting Typhus
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 10, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3121 Charles Nicolle and the Transmission of Typhus. Today, we get typhus.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2985: Relative Accuracy
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 09, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2985 Relative Accuracy. Today, we'll question the virtue of accuracy.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1150: Arguing Racism
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 08, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1150 Arguing racism: Time for rational, rather than moral, arguments. Today, we analyze racism.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1149: Heat Transfer
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 07, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1149 Heat Transfer Conference ("Wherever there's a thermal gradient"). Today, we move energy.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1148: 1846
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 06, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1148 1846: Origin of the Smithsonian Institution in a momentous year. Today, let's talk about American expansion, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1147: Points Off
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 05, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1147 Points-Off thinking: a damaging force in education and sports. Today, we ask how many points to take off.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1952: Constants of Nature
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 04, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1952 The only-possible constants of nature: The only-possible us. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd looks at the grandest machine of all.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2944: Max Planck’s Triumphs and Tragedies
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 03, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2944 The Father of Quantum Theory, The Perseverance of a Scientist Facing Multiple Tragedies.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3123: Vincent Coleman
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 02, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3123 The Halifax 1917 Explosion and Vincent Coleman's Final Goodbye. Today, a final goodbye.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1146: Creating a New Country
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 01, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1146 Early Massachusetts: a cultural beachhead, not yet a new country. Today, America leaves its Eastern beaches.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1145: Jacquard and Babbage
Engines of Our Ingenuity - March 31, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode 1145: Jacquard, Babbage, Hollerith, IBM: from weaving to computers. Today, a story about wool weaving and computers.
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