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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2224: Megalonyx

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 9, 2022 · Episode: 2224 Thomas Jefferson and megalonyx, the great-clawed ground sloth. Today, Jefferson meets Great Claw.

Tags animal size Buffon extinction fossils ground sloth Ice Age megalonyx megatherium moose paleontology species Thomas Jefferson zoology

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2226: Old Scientific Illustrations

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 20, 2022 · Episode: 2226 Aesop’s Fables and scientific illustration. Today, Aesop’s fables illustrate a new science.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2199: Who Were the Irish?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 20, 2022 · Episode: 2199 Who were the Irish long ago? Today, when the Irish were Egyptians.

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Houston Matters

Houston Researcher Helps Unearth A New Dinosaur Species

Michael Hagerty

Posted on September 27, 2019 · Jeffrey Martz of UH-Downtown helped discover a previously unknown species about as big as a medium-sized dog.

Tags dinosaurs Jeffrey Martz Kwanasaurus williamparkeri paleontology sciene UH-Downtown

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Friday’s Show: Preventing College Dropouts, And Digging Up A New Dinosaur (Sept. 27, 2019)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on September 27, 2019 · On Friday's show: Ensuring students don’t drop out of college because they lack money for food or housing, unearthing a new species of dinosaur, exploring the concepts of space travel in the movie Ad Astra, and hashing out The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of the week's news.

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