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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2186: Lost Beauties

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 20, 2022 · Episode: 2186 Lost beauty of old words: nostalgia thwarted a flood of new books. Today, language slips away from us.

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Posted on January 30, 2023 · Episode: 2474 Antoine de St. Exupéry, André Gide, and a new vocabulary for a new technology. Today, Antoine de St. Exupéry.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2409: Remembering What We Know

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Posted on November 20, 2022 · Episode: 2409 Struggling to keep our grip on the past as we move from books to the Internet. Today, we struggle to remember what we once knew.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2388: Inventing the Hyperlink

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Posted on October 31, 2022 · Episode: 2388 In which Paul Otlet invents the hyperlink, and almost invents the Internet. Today, we invent the hyperlink.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2383: E. Ball Hughes & Perspective

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Posted on October 28, 2022 · Episode: 2383 In which the ghost of E. Ball Hughes speaks from an old book on perspective. Today, a sculptor’s ghost speaks.

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