Engines of Our Ingenuity
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1569: Alkahest
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1568: The Age of the Earth
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2591: Instant Runoff Voting
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2885: Big Numbers
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3372: Gaslighting
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3371: Mary Colter
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1567: Christopher Wren, Physician
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1566: Glottochronology
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1565: Hysplex
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2588: Synthetic Sound Waves
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3370: Poetic Meter
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3369: Tiny Living Factories
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3368: Reality
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1564: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1562: Guido da Viegevano
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1561: Herbert J. L. Hinkler
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2585: Measuring Race Times
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2942: Hilton Hotels in Space
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2638: Artificial Gravity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1560: Narrow Perception
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1559: The Oldest Technology
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1558: We O’ercome by Art
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1556: The Manual Arts
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2583: Children and Their Goals
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3253: Machine Learning
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3166: Spoonerisms
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1554: Scientific Instruments
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1553: In Vacuo
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1552: Global Warming Again
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1551: Inventing the Piano
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2578: Water Towers
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2864: Bayes’ Theorem
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3247: The Prouste Questionnaire
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1550: Finding the Book
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1549: Comptus Rendus, 1836
Ep 1547The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1547: Ripe for Revolution
Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let's reclaim mystery.
Ep 1546The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1546: Max Jakob
Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land. Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.
Ep 2576The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2576: Screw Caps for Wine
Episode: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine? Today, a turn of the screw.
Ep 2687The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2687: What Lives Within Us
Episode: 2687 Getting to know the organisms that live on and in the human body. Today, what lives within us.
Ep 3367The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3367: Scientific American’s Blunder
Episode: 3367 In which Scientific American Magazine gets wrong, the airflow during singing. Today, Scientific American gets it wrong.
Ep 3366The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3366: Bottle Cap
Episode: 3366 The throw-away bottle cap: More than it seems to be. Today, we invent the bottle cap.
Ep 1545The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1545: English Balloons
Episode: 1545 The English and 18th century ballooning. Today, we ride the first hot-air balloons in England.
Ep 1544The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1544: Electric Light Opera
Episode: 1544 An operetta about electric lights, written before Edison's light bulb. Today, an electric-light opera.
Ep 1543The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1543: Ceredi’s Pump
Episode: 1543 Archimedes' pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes' pump.
Ep 2575The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2575: Prime Numbers
Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers. Today, some numbers for the ages.
Ep 3228The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3228: Computer Safety
Episode: 3228 Designing safe computer controls. Today, flying by computer.
Ep 3365The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3365: 1906 Shop Notes
Episode: 3365 A 1906 set of Shop Notes offers a lesson in technological change. Today, a manual tells us more than it means to.
Ep 1542The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1542: Francis Bacon
Episode: 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda. Today, science tries to find its way.
Ep 1541The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1541: History and Horseshoe Nails
Episode: 1541 Do 'Horseshoe Nails' really alter human history? Today, we ask if horseshoe nails are real.
Ep 1540The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1540: The Ironclad Turtle
Episode: 1540 The Korean Turtle Boat - the first ironclad. Today, we meet a turtle with an iron shell.