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Tag: botany

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1975: Asa Gray

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 8, 2021 · Episode: 1975 In which botanist Asa Gray shows us how to apply good science. Today, a botanist in a changing world.

Tags Alfred Russel Wallace Asa Gray Boston Botanical Gardens botanist botany Charles Darwin evolution by natural selection flora harvard J. Willard Gibbs Louis Agassiz plant life religion University of Michigan

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2991: Writing in Colors

Richard Willson

Posted on July 22, 2020 · Episode: 2991 Tswett and the Development of Chromatography. Today, we write in colors.

Tags Adsorption analysis botany Chlorophyll Column Filter Paper Pigments plants Purification russia Separation Solvents Warsaw

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1864: Philip and Edmund Gosse

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 26, 2020 · Episode: 1864 Philip and Edmund Gosse, reaching out across a great divide. Today, a Victorian naturalist.

Tags biology botany breast cancer darwin Edmund Gosse Emily Gosse evolution ompholos Philip Henry Gosse

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1824: Texas Cognac

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 16, 2020 · Episode: 1824 Cognac grapes growing from Texas rootstocks. Today, we grow grapes.

Tags agriculture botany Cognac Denison entomology oenology phylloxera lice texas Thomas V. Munson wine

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1795: Blanche Ames

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 13, 2019 · Episode: 1795 Blanche Ames: inventor, artist, and conservative activist. Today, meet Blanche Ames.

Tags barrage balloons birth control Blanche Ames Borderland State Park botany feminist harvard John F. Kennedy Oakes Ames orchidae orchids republican suffrage water control women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1511: Lotus and High-Tech

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 14, 2018 · Episode: 1511 In which the lotus blossom gives a lesson in engineering design. Today, lotus petals and high-tech.  

Tags biology botany cleaning contemplation medicine polio surface tension

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1466: Vegetable Physiology

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 9, 2018 · Episode: 1466 An old botany book for young girls changes scientific thinking. Today, a young student forms a scientific theory.  

Tags biology botany electricity Marcet philosophy sap vegetable physiology women

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