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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1501: Horizontal Diffusion
Posted on · Episode: 1501 The orientation of continents determines their development. Today, the advantage of being horizontal.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1499: Domesticating Animals
Posted on · Episode: 1499 Domestic animals: A tricky marriage between human and beast. Today, we try to domesticate a wild animal.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1498: Thoughts On Jumping
Posted on · Episode: 1498 How the In which we try to jump as high as a flea. Today, can you jump as high as a flea?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1497: The Double-Bitted Axe
Posted on · Episode: 1497 The rise of Paul Bunyan’s radical double-bitted axe. Today, we learn to use a new axe.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1496: Mrs. Greenhow, Confederate Spy
Posted on · Episode: 1496 Mrs. Greenhow, the first great Confederate spy. Today, we meet a Confederate spy.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1495: The Chauffeur Problem
Posted on · Episode: 1495 The strange persistence of X-ray hair removal. Today, we learn to drive our own cars — and manage our own computers.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1494: X-Ray Hair Removal
Posted on · Episode: 1494 The strange persistence of X-ray hair removal. Today, we kill ourselves to remove hair.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1492: Necessity in the Siege of Paris
Posted on · Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris. Today, necessity, invention, and the Siege of Paris.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1491: Orpheus
Posted on · Episode: 1491 In which business schools study a leaderless orchestra. Today, we have no leader.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1490: Germs
Posted on · Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1489: Helicopter
Posted on · Episode: 1489 Inventing the helicopter: harder than it looked. Today, we invent the helicopter.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1488: The Roeblings
Posted on · Episode: 1488 John, Washington, & Emily Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Today, a family gives us the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1487: Telephone Use
Posted on · Episode: 1487 Teaching the American public to use the telephone. Today, would you buy the first telephone?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1485: Ship of Gold
Posted on · Episode: 1485 Ship of gold in the Deep Blue Sea: an impossible treasure recovery. Today, we hunt treasure.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1484: Georg Cantor
Posted on · Episode: 1484 Georg Cantor, the man who counted beyond infinity. Today, we wonder about counting to infinity.