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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1918: Fairness

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 9, 2020 · Episode: 1918 Cooperation and fairness: Enforcing the Golden Rule. Today, we put teeth in the Golden Rule.

Tags anthropology baboon culture behavioral science Competition cooperation darwin fairness Gretchen Vogel suicide bombers The Golden Rule

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1891: Earth, Air, Fire, & Water

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 15, 2020 · Episode: 1891 Earth, Air, Fire, & Water — Love & Hate. Today, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

Tags air alchemy and Water aristotle darwin earth Empedocles evolution fire Mourelatos rhetoric science speed of light

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3053: Music and the Brain

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on May 21, 2020 · Episode: 3053 Music and the Brain. Today, this is your brain on music.

Tags brain darwin levitin music neuroscience pinker

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 1841: Music, Music, Music!

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 15, 2020 · Episode: 1841 “All I want is Loving you and Music,Music, Music!” Today, music, music, music!

Tags animal music making darwin endorphines evolution human brain music natural selection physiology psychology Teresa Brewer

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1751: Robert Hooke

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 27, 2019 · Episode: 1751 Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and science in transition. Today, conflict as science changes form.

Tags Alexander Pope darwin Francis Bacon Isaac Newton Royal Society of London science technology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1726: The Lunar Society

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 2, 2019 · Episode: 1726 The Lunar Society and eighteenth century revolution. Today, let’s drop in on a remarkable gathering.

Tags Benjamin Franklin Boulton darwin Herschel Lunar Society Priestley revolution Smeaton watt wedgwood

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1646: Who Did What By When?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 6, 2019 · Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?  

Tags Adenauer aging Bill Gates Brook Shields Dalai Lama darwin einstein franklin George Burns geriatrics Gielgud Henry Ford Hitler Jan Peerce jefferson Jessica Tandy John Jacob Niles Leakey Loretta Lynn marathon Mary Baker Eddy meitner newton Pablo Casals Prospero Thelma Pitt-Turner Tiger woods

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1573: Donatello In Time

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 21, 2018 · Episode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?

Tags agassiz art artists Bellini boyle Clark darwin Delacroix Florentine Renaissance Quattrocento newton painter plague Rembrandt Rodin science sculptor sculpture Vermeer

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1568: The Age of the Earth

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 12, 2018 · Episode: 1568 Lord Kelvin’s miscalculation of the age of the earth. Today, a Victorian scientist miscalculates the age of the earth.

Tags bible darwin Fourier geology heat transfer Heaviside religion science

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only A Theory

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 27, 2018 · Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let’s theorize.

Tags darwin education evolution hypothesis philosophy schools species teaching

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1513: The Accidental Creationist

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 18, 2018 · Episode: 1513 The Accidental Creationist: In which science changes with the telling of it. Today, the problem of telling about science.  

Tags anthropology darwin evolution gould natural selection paleontology racism science social Darwinism wright

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 10, 2017 · Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.

Tags biology Bryan Chambers Darrow darwin evolution Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection Owen religion Samuel Wilberforce Scopes Trial

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1340: Animals and Emotion

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 8, 2017 · Episode: 1340 Animals and emotion: figuring out what is obvious. Today, let’s talk to animals.

Tags biology body language darwin psychology weeping

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1154: Adam’s Belly Button

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 3, 2017 · Episode: 1154 In which Adam’s navel poses the question of pre-creation history. Today, a silly question about Adam’s navel paves the way for evolution.

Tags anthropology art darwin evolution fossils geology gosse hippopotamus ompholos

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