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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2588: Synthetic Sound Waves
Episode: 2588 Synthetic Sound Waves. Today, the sound of music.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3370: Poetic Meter
Episode: 3370 A Look at Poetry and the Importance of Rhythmic Metre. Today, the rhythm of poetry.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3369: Tiny Living Factories
Episode: 3369 Small cells and microorganism that behave like living factories. Today, tiny living factories.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3368: Reality
Episode: 3368 The possibility that there exists a reality out of reach of any human science. Today, we wonder what’s real.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1564: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Episode: 1564 The Second Law of Thermodynamics and time's arrow. Today, we see why time goes only from then to now.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1561: Herbert J. L. Hinkler
Episode: 1561 'Hustling Hinkler, Up in the Sky' - an early Australian flier leaves his mark. Today, an odd hero of early aviation.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1560: Narrow Perception
Episode: 1560 In which we 'look' at the world through a narrow slit. Today, we look at the world through a narrow slit.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1559: The Oldest Technology
Episode: 1559 Music-making: the first technology. Today, we look for the oldest technology.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1558: We O’ercome by Art
Episode: 1558 Mastered by nature, we o'ercome by art - then as now. Today, an old debate in a new arena.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3253: Machine Learning
Episode: 3253 Teaching Computers to Think. Today, Teaching a Computer.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3166: Spoonerisms
Episode: 3166 Spoonerisms and Their Unwilling Namesake. Today, spooning in speakerisms.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1553: In Vacuo
Episode: 1553 Galileo, Torricelli, von Guericke, and the idea of a vacuum. Today, we invent vacuum.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1552: Global Warming Again
Episode: 1552 The ocean - the wild card in global warming. Today, we wonder how things are really heating up.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1551: Inventing the Piano
Episode: 1551 In which Gary Larson tells us the piano was invented earlier than we thought. oday, a lesson in invention from the Far Side.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2864: Bayes’ Theorem
Episode: 2864 The theorem of Reverend Bayes. Today, let's talk about uncertainty and an 18th century Presbyterian minister.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3247: The Prouste Questionnaire
Episode: 3247 Proust, Turing, and the Measure of Humanity. Today, we go from Turing to Proust.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1550: Finding the Book
Episode: 1550 Making a book of The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Today, we wonder how to make a book.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1549: Comptus Rendus, 1836
Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide. Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1547: Ripe for Revolution
Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let's reclaim mystery.
The 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.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2576: Screw Caps for Wine
Episode: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine? Today, a turn of the screw.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2575: Prime Numbers
Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers. Today, some numbers for the ages.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3228: Computer Safety
Episode: 3228 Designing safe computer controls. Today, flying by computer.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2572: Melville and Anna Bissell
Episode: 2572 Melville and Anna Bissell and the Carpet Sweeper. Today, a husband and wife engineer success.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3363: Reinforcement Learning
Episode: 3363 Richard Sutton and reinforcement learning. Today, reinforcement learning.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3362: The Engineering Magazine
Episode: 3362 A 1914 Engineering Magazine teaches us much about the evolution of our technology. Today, a revealing old magazine.
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.