Latest Inventive minds Podcast Episodes
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1207: Balustrades
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 30, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1207 In which a balustrade shows us that laws were made to be broken. Today, we see how laws were made to be broken.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1206: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 29, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1206 Harriet Beecher Stowe: "No talent, only genius." Today, a woman turns slavery from theoretical wrong into personal evil.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1205: Henry Chapman Mercer
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 28, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1205 Henry Chapman Mercer: An aristocrat redirects anthropology. Today, a shy aristocrat redirects anthropology.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2234: Spherical Horses & Frictionless Wheels
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 27, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2234 Spherical horses and frictionless wheels -- When are we close enough to reality? Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks, "What makes a good Model?"
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2858: Hearing Pictures
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 26, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2858 Hearing Pictures: Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Today, hearing pictures.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2722: Voyaging
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 25, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2722 Gathering of Materials and Methods to Craft Sailing and Space-faring Vessels. Today, voyaging at the edge of technology.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1204: Baron von Humboldt
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 24, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1204 Baron von Humboldt's remarkable exploration of Meso-America. Today, a nearly forgotten hero.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1200: London’s Secret Museums
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 23, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1200 London's secret museums. Today, we visit London's secret museums.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1199: Gallup Poll
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 22, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1199 Gallup Poll: spawn of intellect with some saving imperfection. Today, we try to foretell how you plan to vote.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1198: The Gates of Hell
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 21, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1198 In which Virgil visits a theme park and writes the Aeneid. Today, we pass through the Gates of Hell.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2150: Scotty
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 20, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2150 Scotty on Starship Enterprise: an image of an engineer. Today, we beam up with guest scientist Andrew Boyd.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3054: Electioneering in Ancient Rome
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 19, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3054 Electioneering in Ancient Rome: the Commentariolum Petitionis Attributed to Cicero's Brother. Today, how to get elected in ancient Rome.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3162: Charge With My Jacket
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 18, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3162 A Jacket With Embedded Flexible Thin-Film Batteries That Can Charge a Device. Today, a wonderful technology.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1196: Batting 400
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 17, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1196 Reflections on batting 400, evolution, economics, and diversity. Today, what do batting averages, evolution, and the economy have in common?
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1195: Dhouda
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 16, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1195 Dhuoda writes to her son in Ninth Century France. Today, a remarkable woman opens a window on another age.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1194: Self-Deception
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 15, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1194 A scientifically illiterate people goes bankrupt on health care. Today, thoughts on medicine, self-deception, and scientific literacy.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1193: West with the Night
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 14, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1193 Beryl Markham flies out of Africa, and across the Atlantic. Today, a daring flight and an unlikely book.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2117: The Internet of Tubes
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 13, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2117 The Internet of Tubes: In which a gaffe evokes the history of communication. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd and the Internet of Tubes.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3018: Compressed Sensing
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 12, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3018 Compressed Sensing. Today, let's talk about getting something from nothing.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2833: Kykkos Monastery
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 11, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2833 Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus, and the origins of Western monasticism. Today, monks and hermits.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1192: Black Sea
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 10, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1192 In which a deluge transforms the Black Sea -- and farming. Today, let's ride the wake of an old old flood.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1190: Mustard Gas
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 09, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1190 The only mustard gas attack in WWII yields new medicine. Today, a story about cancer and a WW-II mustard gas attack.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1189: Theodore Pachelbel
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 08, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1189 The other Pachelbel brings music to Colonial America. Today, the first "recorded" concert in America.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1188: William Billings
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 07, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1188 William Billings, Colonial composer and American original. Today, we meet America's first significant composer.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2094: The Box
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 06, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2094 Thinking inside the box: the invention of containerization. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd discusses The Box.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2710: Thomas Selfridge
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 05, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2710 The First Fatality in Powered Flight Awakens the World to the Dangers of Aviation. Today, the first powered aviation fatality.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3298: Optic Yellow
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 04, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3298 Gender, Color, and Dichotomy in Tennis. Today, we take sides in tennis.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1187: Good/Bad : People/Machines
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 03, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1187 Good people make good machines: Bad people make bad machines. Today, we try to construct an aphorism.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1186: Bach and Handel
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 02, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1186 Bach, Handel, and their charlatan eye doctor. Today, an odd connection between Bach and Handel.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1185: Adam Smith
Engines of Our Ingenuity - June 01, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1185 Adam Smith: of economics and natural law. Today, a bright Scot looks to natural law for an economic model.
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