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Tag: epidemiology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2042: Science Remaking the World

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 30, 2020 · Episode: 2042 Looking at a brave new scientific world in 1922. Today, science and change.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 2, 2020 · Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1141: The Tipping Point

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 7, 2020 · Episode: 1141 Tipping points in human affairs: in disease, crime, and education. Today, a thought about math education, parents, and the camel’s back.

Tags constrained equilibrium epidemiology law enforcement mathematics psychology Stability

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Census Undercount In Texas Could Damage Critical Health Services

Andrew Schneider

Posted on March 27, 2020 · If COVID-19 reduces the response rate to this year’s census, that could make it harder to respond to future epidemics

Tags census 2020 Coronavirus COVID-19 epidemiology medicaid

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 20, 2018 · Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.

Tags epidemiology George Washington Carver Infantile Paralysis massage therapy medicine polio poliomyelitis Sister Kenney Tuskegee Institute

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3121: Getting Typhus

Richard Willson

Posted on May 2, 2017 · Episode: 3121 Charles Nicolle and the Transmission of Typhus. Today, we get typhus.

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