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Tag: ecology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistance Movement

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 19, 2020 · Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.

Tags aids bacteriology biology dna ebola ecology Elephants fishing microbiology pneumonia virology zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1014: War on Disease

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 3, 2020 · Episode: 1014 Making war on disease: a tricky business. Today, total war proves to be a dangerous business.

Tags aids americas ecology entomology medicine microbiology plague

News

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1801: Windmills: Fancier and Fancier

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 22, 2019 · Episode: 1801 An update on windmills/wind-turbines and renewable energy. Today, a windmill report.

Tags ac alternating current American farm windmills Arab Don Quixote ecology environmentalists feedback control pitch control power production propeller pitch Renewable Energy speed control wind turbines

Mockingbird & Armadillo

WATCH: Golf Coast | Mockingbird and Armadillo

Ernie Manouse

Posted on August 30, 2019 · Fore! he's a golly good gulf-er...

Tags art art gallery Bradly Brown Center for Houston's Future ecology environment environmental studies ernie manouse fun funny golf greater houston partnership gulf coast HAA Houston Arts Alliance houstonfirst immersive installation Interactive Maker Space mini golf Miniture Golf MockArm Mockingbird & Armadillo putt putt san jacinto San Jacinto College San Jacinto College South Campus SJCS VisitHouston

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1729: Looking Down From the Sky

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 9, 2019 · Episode: 1729 The wide angle lens: looking at earth from on high. Today, we look upon Earth from above.  

Tags aerial photography airplanes balloons ecology fascism Le Corbusier lindbergh Nazis urban design WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1714: “Infinite Reservoire” of Space

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 8, 2019 · Episode: 1714 The mischief, in space, of the “infinite reservoir” thought model. Today, let us fill infinity.

Tags ecology geosynchronous orbit nasa space debris space program thermal pollution thermal reservoir thermodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1615: Learning to Use Coal

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 19, 2018 · Episode: 1615 On learning to use coal. Today, we learn why we shouldn’t bring coals to Newcastle.

Tags Coals to Newcastle coke ecology emerson energy production environment Marco Polo metallurgy mining pollution power timber wood

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1602: The Tragedy of the Commons

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 23, 2018 · Episode: 1602 The tragedy of the commons revisited. Today, the tragedy of the commons.  

Tags agriculture birth control ecology economics population control sociology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistance Movement

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 21, 2018 · Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.  

Tags aids bacteriology biology dna ebola ecology Elephants fishing microbiology pneumonia virology zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1416: Technology On Hold

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 25, 2017 · Episode: 1416 Technology on Hold: ideas that return after a long time. Today, technology on hold.  

Tags agriculture automobile ecology electric trolley environment farming feedback control fossil fuels hellenistic herbal medicine horse nuclear power power production public transportation water clock

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1407: A Matter of Size

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 6, 2017 · Episode: 1407 A matter of size: scaling laws among living species. Today, a matter of size.

Tags ecology gravity metabolism species whales zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1403: Vanishing Sea Otters

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 29, 2017 · Episode: 1403 Vanishing sea otters: only one piece of a long food chain. Today, let’s take a quick trip through a long food chain.  

Tags ecology environment kelp sea urchins species whales zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1392: Fog In The Woods

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 1, 2017 · Episode: 1392 The nature of fog and of redwood trees. Today, fog in the forest.

Tags black ecology electricity Forestry Gourdine lumbering olympics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1387: The Wooden Ships of Mallows Bay

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 21, 2017 · Episode: 1387 The ghost fleet of wooden ships in Mallows Bay. Today, a fleet of sunken ships.

Tags assembly line ecology mass production merchant marine merchant shipping military supply steamships war wild life preserves WW-I

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1262: Eighteenth-Century Environmental Disaster

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 23, 2016 · Episode: 1262 An 18-century environmental disaster in Brittany, France. Today, an 18th-century environmental disaster.

Tags diderot Duhamel ecology environmental impact flooding lawsuit lead mining

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