Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2025: L.U.C.A.
Posted on · Episode: 2025 Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Today, our last universal common ancestor.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2008: Figuring Out Science
Posted on · Episode: 2008 Figuring Out Science: Our surprising scientifically-savvy great-grandparents. Today, figuring out science in 1876.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1918: Fairness
Posted on · Episode: 1918 Cooperation and fairness: Enforcing the Golden Rule. Today, we put teeth in the Golden Rule.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1891: Earth, Air, Fire, & Water
Posted on · Episode: 1891 Earth, Air, Fire, & Water — Love & Hate. Today, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3053: Music and the Brain
Posted on · Episode: 3053 Music and the Brain. Today, this is your brain on music.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1864: Philip and Edmund Gosse
Posted on · Episode: 1864 Philip and Edmund Gosse, reaching out across a great divide. Today, a Victorian naturalist.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1841: Music, Music, Music!
Posted on · Episode: 1841 “All I want is Loving you and Music,Music, Music!” Today, music, music, music!
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1751: Robert Hooke
Posted on · Episode: 1751 Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and science in transition. Today, conflict as science changes form.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1726: The Lunar Society
Posted on · Episode: 1726 The Lunar Society and eighteenth century revolution. Today, let’s drop in on a remarkable gathering.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1646: Who Did What By When?
Posted on · Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1573: Donatello In Time
Posted on · Episode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1568: The Age of the Earth
Posted on · Episode: 1568 Lord Kelvin’s miscalculation of the age of the earth. Today, a Victorian scientist miscalculates the age of the earth.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only A Theory
Posted on · Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let’s theorize.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1513: The Accidental Creationist
Posted on · Episode: 1513 The Accidental Creationist: In which science changes with the telling of it. Today, the problem of telling about science.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
Posted on · Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.