Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1076: Slave Inventors
Posted on · Episode: 1076 Slave Inventors and question, “Who owns an idea?” Today, we ask, “Who should own a patent?”
Posted on · Episode: 1076 Slave Inventors and question, “Who owns an idea?” Today, we ask, “Who should own a patent?”
Posted on · Episode: 1945 Jeffries Wyman: Science at its quiet best. Today, a quiet academic.
Posted on · Real estate investor Chris Senegal’s townhomes target young professionals who care about the community.
Posted on · Episode: 3222 Black, the colorless and highly desirable color. Today, black is the “color.”
Posted on · Episode: 1767 Weighing the near and far wake of Lewis and Clark. Today, after Lewis and Clark.
Posted on · Episode: 1681 The Literary Digest tells us about science in 1904. Today, a bright new century.
Posted on · Episode: 1667 In which we look at the problem of seeing what we expect to see. Today, we try to see what we’re looking at.
Posted on · Episode: 1521 John P. Parker, slave, freedom-fighter, inventor, and businessman. Today, we follow a slave out of slavery.
Posted on · This week on Ask Code Switch: Is it OK for a white teenager to use emojis that don't match her skin color? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Posted on · Whether or not she cares, princess-to-be Meghan Markle has become a symbol of biracial people's coming-of-age, and maybe of the country's collective adulthood on race
Posted on · Episode: 1392 The nature of fog and of redwood trees. Today, fog in the forest.
Posted on · Episode: 1314 Amistad, art and revolution: artists join the fight for freedom. Today, art and slavery.
Posted on · Episode: 1206 Harriet Beecher Stowe: “No talent, only genius” Today, a woman turns slavery from theoretical wrong into personal evil.
Posted on · For the last two weeks, the nation has watched events transpire in Ferguson, Missouri. Nightly protests, occasional looting, and a general mistrust of the police by members of the community, have all been spurred by the shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a Ferguson police officer. But as we've learned in the two weeks […]
Posted on · More than 118,000 Texans signed up for health insurance through the online marketplaces by the end of 2013; a new craft beer festival is coming to Houston; and in a closed door Dallas auction last weekend a man won a permit to hunt an endangered African black rhino in Namibia: It’s The Good, The Bad […]