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Tag: consciousness

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2695: Hydraulic Information

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 9, 2023 · Episode: 2695 The 21st Century information floodtide, seen as applied hydraulics. Today, information flows like water.

Tags consciousness embracing ignorance FaceBook and the Middle East hydraulic analogy information internet Julian Jaynes secrecy wikileaks

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2900: Hayek and the Mind

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on April 20, 2023 · Episode: 2900 Hayek: the economist’s contributions in neuroscience and philosophy. Today, a man who crossed over.

Tags consciousness economics Friedrich Hayek government mind The Sensory Order

Town Square

THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE with Physicist Sean Carroll

Garrett Bohlmann

Posted on December 2, 2022 · Answering the all-important questions over our place in the universe.

Tags and Motion black holes consciousness cosmic radiation cosmology dark energy dark matter entropy gravity idealism John Hopkins University mindscape motion Multiverse Theory parallel universes philosophy physicist reality Santa Fe Institute science Science Friday Sean Carroll space stars The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space the universe time

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2229: Children and Science

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 27, 2022 · Episode: 2229 Hurdles that children must leap to learn science. Today, children and science.

Tags aristotle biology children learning consciousness creationism Deena Skolnick Weisberg early development epistemology evolution gravity Newton's laws of motion Paul Bloom psychology religion round Earth science education

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2800: 2800 Years Ago

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 28, 2023 · Episode: 2800 Two information revolutions: 2800 years ago, and surrounding the 2800th Episode. Today, 2800 years ago.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2685: C.P. Snow at a Cocktail Party

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 2, 2023 · Episode: 2685 C. P. Snow’s two cultures after 52 years and the coming of the Internet. Today, C. P. Snow at a cocktail party.

Tags C. P. Snow education gaming humanities internet posing Science and Technology The Two Cultures

Houston Matters

The Internet turns 30: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

Michael Hagerty

Posted on May 5, 2023 · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.

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Houston Matters

Technology has transformed our lives in Houston over the last decade — for better or worse

Michael Hagerty

Posted on April 24, 2023 · As Houston Matters marks ten years on the air, we discuss how the technology landscape has changed in the past decade.

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