Engines of Our Ingenuity
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Engines of Our Ingenuity
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3361: Ravens in Thin Air
Episode: 3361 The versatile, intelligent, Raven has much to teach us. Today, ravens in thin air.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2570: Celebrating Human Ingenuity
Episode: 2570 Celebrating Human Ingenuity. Today, a story in two parts.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3360: Fender Rhodes
Episode: 3360 The incomparable sound of the legendary Fender Rhodes. Today we consider "The legendary Fender Rhodes".
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3359: Darwin-Wedgwood
Episode: 3359 An very special lineage: Charles Darwin: Grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin. Today, Charles Darwin’s grandparents.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3358: Onesiphore Pecqueur
Episode: 3358 Onesiphore Pecqueur and the invention of your car’s differential gears. Today, let us meet Onesiphore Pecqueur.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1535: Inventing the Clock
Episode: 1535 The mechanical clock as tactile philosophy. Today, we invent the mechanical clock.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1534: Acceleration
Episode: 1534 Making sense of the slippery concept of acceleration. Today, let's think about falling.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2563: Isaac Asimov
Episode: 2563 The Prolific Isaac Asimov. Today, science or fiction?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3357: Backpropagation
Episode: 3357 Backpropagation: The idea that powers modern AI. Today, backpropagation, the trick behind modern AI.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3356: Calligraphic Art
Episode: 3356 A form of decorative calligraphic art emerges from penmanship instruction at 19th century business colleges. Today, when handwriting be...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3355: Tin Cans
Episode: 3355 The rise of the lowly and ubiquitous Tin Can, and its various openers. Today, let us make tin cans.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1533: The Triple Nickel
Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory
Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let's theorize.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks
Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3353: Sandrin
Episode: 3353 An example showing how music, like other technologies, evolves. Today, a lesson from an old song.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1530: The Medieval Mason
Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1529: Osborne Reynolds
Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water
Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2559: Going, Going, Gone!
Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2035: The Gunpowder Plot
Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years. Today, historian Cathy Patterson asks us to "Remember, remember, th...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall
Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1526: Learning to Talk
Episode: 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion. Today, we learn to talk.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2556: Hilbert and Euclid’s Elements
Episode: 2556 Euclid's Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3352: A Taste of Orange
Episode: 3352 A Taste of Orange. Today we are "Tasting Orange".
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3350: Pickering’s Harem
Episode: 3350 Today honoring a special group of women scientists. Pickering’s Harem.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3351: Crossbow
Episode: 3351 The curious struggle of the Crossbow. History is full of instances where armies cling to outmoded weapons.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1522: Fifty Years in the Future
Episode: 1522 A 1950 prediction of technology in the year 2000. Today, we go fifty years into the future.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2555: Google Books
Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1519: Seeing Around the Corner
Episode: 1519 Learning to acquire knowledge and create it at the same time. Today, we wonder where knowledge comes from.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1518: Looking for Reality
Episode: 1518 A concern about computers and the redefinition of reality. Today, we try to tell fact from fiction.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1517: A Tripartite Bridge
Episode: 1517 The very odd bridge that Roebling almost built. Today, a strange bridge.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1516: Saving the Lore
Episode: 1516 In which we must save the lore as well as the plants. Today, we have to save more than the endangered plants.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3090: Friedrich Richard Petri
Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri. Today, drawing the frontier.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1515: Oxygen
Episode: 1515 The would-be discovery of oxygen and scientific revolution. Today, let's try to find out who discovered oxygen.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistence Movement
Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1512: The Corner Store
Episode: 1512 The corner store: a retail outlet that is lost but not forgotten. Today, let's buy candy at the corner store.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1511: Lotus and High-Tech
Episode: 1511 In which the lotus blossom gives a lesson in engineering design. Today, lotus petals and high-tech.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1508: Alchemy
Episode: 1508 The alchemists and chemistry before the middle 19th century. Today, we remember alchemy.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3244: Bias in Face Recognition Software
Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1856: Form and Feeling
Episode: 1856 Form and feeling, a necessary partnership. Today, our guest. Seattle actor Megan Cole, considers a necessary partnership.