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Engines of Our Ingenuity

100 Episodes

4 minutes | Apr 1, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2543: Clara Adams Takes Flight
Episode: 2543 Clara Adams: 150,000 miles of maiden flights.  Today, Clara Adams flies.
4 minutes | Mar 31, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2541: Reliving Charlotte’s Web
Episode: 2541 Charlotte, of Charlotte's Web, in real life.  Today, I relive Charlotte's Web.
4 minutes | Mar 30, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2894: Wastewater Treatment
Episode: 2894 Wastewater Treatment.  Today, the unmentionable.
4 minutes | Mar 29, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2666: Alan Turing
Episode: 2666 Codes, ciphers and Alan Turing.  Today codes, ciphers and Alan Turing.
4 minutes | Mar 28, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2951: Going to Sea
Episode: 2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial.  Today, we go to sea.
4 minutes | Mar 27, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2540: Semi-Submersible Ships
Episode: 2540 Semi-Submersible Ships, or how the USS Cole hitched a ride home.  Today, semi-submersible ships.
4 minutes | Mar 26, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2537: Vredefort and Apophis
Episode: 2537 Vredefort, Chicxulub, Apophis — once and future threats to Earth.  Today, Vredefort and Apophis.
4 minutes | Mar 25, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2536: Scapa Flow
Episode: 2536 The Scapa Flow ship cemetery.  Today, Scapa Flow.
4 minutes | Mar 24, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2532: Fanny Kemble
Episode: 2532 Fanny Kemble, technology, and London's circle of radical intellectual women.  Today, another kind of radical.
4 minutes | Mar 23, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2891: Specifics and Generalities
Episode: 2891 Specifics and Generalities: teaching and the problem of universals.  Today, what exactly is that?
4 minutes | Mar 22, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2448: Rachmaninoff Unblocked
Episode: 2448 Sergei Rachmaninoff visits a hypnotist to remove his writer's block.  Today, a composer unblocked.
4 minutes | Mar 21, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3288: Yellow-Bellies
Episode: 3288 Yellow-Bellies.  Today we consider "Yellow Bellies".
4 minutes | Mar 20, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2528: Weights and Measures
Episode: 2528 le Systeme international d'units, our real standard of units.  Today, another look at weights and measures.
4 minutes | Mar 19, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2526: Montagu/Sandwich
Episode: 2526 John Montague, Lord Sandwich, and a little-known island chain.  Today, Sandwich's islands.
4 minutes | Mar 18, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2525: Protruding Land
Episode: 2525 Reflections on protruding land, shipwrecks and lighthouses.  Today, protruding land.
4 minutes | Mar 17, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2524: Art Arfons and Speed
Episode: 2524 Art Arfons' last Hurrah.  Today, a thought about folly and Function.
4 minutes | Mar 16, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2889 Twin Primes Conjecture
Episode: 2889 An important step toward solving the twin primes conjecture.  Today, almost twins.
4 minutes | Mar 15, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2658: Massively Multiplayer Mathematics
Episode: 2658 Massively Multiplayer Math.  Today, let's talk massively multiplayer mathematics.
4 minutes | Mar 14, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2724: Let’s Be Pedants
Episode: 2724 Let's be pedants — well, insofar as language allows.  Today, let's be pedants.
4 minutes | Mar 13, 2023
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2522: Farnum Fish
Episode: 2522 Farnum Thayer Fish, first airplane combat casualty.  Today, first aerial combat casualty.
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