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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2270: Louis de Brogue

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 24, 2022 · Episode: 2270 Louis de Broglie: The prince and blurred pea. Today, the prince and the blurred pea.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2221: Jaywalking

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 9, 2022 · Episode: 2221 Who owns the streets: the invention of jaywalking. Today, who owns the streets.

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Einstein’s Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million

Laurel Wamsley, NPR

Posted on October 25, 2017 · The physicist had just won the 1921 Nobel Prize when he scribbled his theory of happy living on a piece of hotel stationery and handed it to the courier at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo

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