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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1719: Poe’s Cosmology

Posted on July 17, 2019 · Episode: 1719 Edgar Allen Poe’s amazing cosmology. Today, gothic cosmology.

Posted on July 15, 2019 · Episode: 1718 The Rev. Dionysius Lardner: keeping up with a world in flux. Today, old books with a message for the present.

Posted on July 12, 2019 · Episode: 1717 In which goats learn to spin spider webs. Today, a progress report.

Posted on July 10, 2019 · Episode: 1715 The first flight around the world — in 175 days. Today, we circle the earth.

Posted on July 8, 2019 · Episode: 1714 The mischief, in space, of the “infinite reservoir” thought model. Today, let us fill infinity.

Posted on July 5, 2019 · Episode: 1713 George Seldon, Henry Ford, and Clyde Champion Barrow. Today, patents and public relations.

Posted on July 3, 2019 · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.

Posted on July 1, 2019 · Episode: 1711 In which melting glaciers open up the archaeological record. Today, we follow melting glaciers.

Posted on June 28, 2019 · Episode: 1710 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Today, a new look at an old encyclopaedia.

Posted on June 26, 2019 · Episode: 1709 Cap Wigington. Today, a remarkable architect.

Posted on June 24, 2019 · Episode: 1707 In which virtual reality is more real than we’d expected. Today, information, too dense to be objective.

Posted on June 21, 2019 · Episode: 1706 The Two Eiffel Towers. Today, Eiffel builds two towers.

Posted on June 19, 2019 · Episode: 1705 A 3000-year-old woman with an artificial toe. Today, a big toe made of wood.

Posted on June 17, 2019 · Episode: 1704 Restorative Justice: a rare inventive response to necessity. Today, invention and crime.

Posted on June 14, 2019 · Episode: 1703 The IBM 360 computer: an imprint upon the Palouse wheat fields. Today, a new computer.