Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2156: Earth Without People
Posted on · Episode: 2156 Earth without people: What would it be without us? Today, What would happen if we were gone.
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Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2042: Science Remaking the World
Posted on · Episode: 2042 Looking at a brave new scientific world in 1922. Today, science and change.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2042: Science Remaking the World
Posted on · Episode: 2042 Looking at a brave new scientific world in 1922. Today, science and change.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1806: Disaster
Posted on · Episode: 1806 A brief look at the history of catastrophe. Today, disaster.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2674: The Royal Navy Surgeon
Posted on · Episode: 2674 The Royal Navy Surgeon; Taking Medicine to Sea in the Age of Sail. Today, the Royal Navy Surgeon.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1712: Nightingale’s Graph
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1490: Germs
Posted on · Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1212: Macroparasites
Posted on · Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2534: History and Epidemic Disease
Posted on · Episode: 2534 History and Epidemic Disease. Today, medical historian Helen Valier offers us a new look at history and epidemic disease.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1746: Evaporation
Posted on · Episode: 1746 In which a water glass lets me know that things are not as bad as they seem. Today, I learn from a water glass as I come out of sleep.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2940: Polio and Mathematics
Posted on · Episode: 2940 Polio and Mathematics. Today, mathematicians ask, "should we rid the world of polio?"
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1712: Nightingale’s Graph
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Houston Matters
Despite FDA Expansion, HPV Vaccination Still Faces Social Hurdles
Posted on · The FDA has approved expanding HPV vaccination to older adults, but a pair of Houston doctors explains the social factors that often prevent people from getting it.
Houston Matters
Research Links Fatty Livers to Cancer
Posted on · Alcohol isn't the only way you can damage your liver -- a bad diet can too.
News
Researchers In San Antonio Offer New Hope To People With Tuberculosis
Posted on · For centuries, a TB diagnosis was often a death sentence, but since the 1940s doctors used antibiotics to treat the infection.