Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2028: B-36
Posted on · Episode: 2028 The B-36: an airplane that fell in the crack of technological change. Today, we fall into a technological crack.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2026: Ritual Origins
Posted on · Episode: 2026 Ritual origins of technology: balance and metaphor. Today, we meet the mother of invention, and she’s not the lady we expected.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2025: L.U.C.A.
Posted on · Episode: 2025 Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Today, our last universal common ancestor.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2023: George Hubert Wilkens
Posted on · Episode: 2023 George Hubert Wilkins: a life brimful and running over. Today, we risk our lives.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2022: Alexander W. Brandon
Posted on · Episode: 2022 Alexander W. Brandon’s, and my father’s, old surveying book. Today, another ghost in an old book.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2020: Screwdrivers and Obviousness
Posted on · Episode: 2020 The screwdriver: archetype of subtle obviousness. Today, let’s talk about screwdrivers.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2019: Robert Millikan
Posted on · Episode: 2019 Robert Millikan: a remarkable late-bloomer in modern physics. Today, the man who didn’t want to be a physicist.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2017: Stretching
Posted on · Episode: 2017 In which we S-T-R-E-T-C-H our imaginations. Today, let us stretch out imaginations.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2016: Multigenium
Posted on · Episode: 2016 In which we invent a new word: Multigenium. Today, let’s fill a void with a new word.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2015: Five Hornblowers
Posted on · Episode: 2015 Five Hornblowers and three generations of steam engine development. Today, five Hornblowers.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2013: The Battleship Texas
Posted on · Episode: 2013 Battleship Texas: a lesson in technological change. Today, Battleship Texas.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2012: 125 Questions
Posted on · Episode: 2012 In which we use 125 questions to explain science. Today, 125 Questions.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2011: Doubt & Leadership
Posted on · Episode: 2011 Doubt and Leadership: The value of finding our own ignorance. Today, thoughts on leadership and doubt.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2009: The End of Books: 1894
Posted on · Episode: 2009 The End of Books, as seen in 1894. Today, a surprising vision of a future.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2008: Figuring Out Science
Posted on · Episode: 2008 Figuring Out Science: Our surprising scientifically-savvy great-grandparents. Today, figuring out science in 1876.