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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1178: Aeronautics 1897-1910
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 20, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1178 The Encyclopaedia Britannica before/after the Wright Brothers. Today, we see what happens when an old goal is reached.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1177: Thomas Watson
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 19, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1177 Thomas Watson, the man on the other end of Bell's telephone. Today, we meet the man on the other end of Bell's new telephone.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1176: Ilizarov Surgery
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 18, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1176 Ilizarov orthopedic surgery: growing new bones. Today, we straighten crooked bones.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1175: The Elizabethans
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 17, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1175 The collapse of the Elizabethan renaissance. Today, we visit a 400-year-old revolution.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2040: The Envelope Game
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 16, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2040 The envelope game: a common-sense-defying selection problem. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd defies common sense.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1947: Psychological Synchronicity
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 15, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1947 Physiological Synchronicity: mirroring emotions. Today, actor Megan Cole talks about faces and feelings.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3048: Juba II
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 14, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 3048 Juba II. Today, a scholar king of Africa.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1174: An Intellectual Legacy
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 13, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1174 Nature or nurture, explaining intellectual dynasties. Today, more on the matter of heredity or environment.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1173: A Sinking Automobile
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 12, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1173 A sinking Automobile. Today, thoughts about thinking while I'm drowning.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1171: The Ignobel Prizes
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 11, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1171 The IgNobel Prizes: At what point does satire go wrong? Today, a concern about satire.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1170: The Iatros
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 10, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1170 A visit to an iatros -- a doctor -- in a 400 BC clinic. Today, we visit a 2400-year-old clinic.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2006: Rain Shadow
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 09, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2006 Sequim's strange blue hole in the midst of rain. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd stays dry.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2243: Organizing for Disaster
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 08, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2243 Organizing for disaster: One place where New Orleans did it right. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, prepares for a rainy day.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2693: To Our SHips
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 07, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2693 On the Nature of Ships, and a Fond Farewell to the Shuttle Discovery. Greetings from the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery, where today we celebrate our ships.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1169: Two Kinds of Structural Design
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 06, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1169 From stacked stone to steel: a shift in structural concept. Today, we make buildings by stacking stone.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1168: Voltaire and Science
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 05, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1168 Voltaire, Newton, science, and the French Revolution. Today, Newton, Voltaire, and the French Revolution.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1167: Machiavelli
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 04, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1167 Machiavelli's attempt to make objective science of statecraft. Today, thoughts about Machiavelli and immature science.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1166: Josquin Des Prez
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 03, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1166 Searching for the historical Josquin Desprez. Today, academic detectives look for the real Josquin.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1994: Theory and Encryption
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 02, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 1994 Encryption: abstraction in the world of practical business. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd sends secret messages.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2897: Privacy and Technology
Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 01, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2897 A (Very) Short History of Privacy and Technology. Today, privacy and technology.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2779: Smart Phones / Wise Phones
Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 30, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsEpisode: 2779 Smartphones/Wise Phones, our changing relationship with phones over the last century. Today, smartphones vs. wise phones.
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.
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