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.
Tag: evolution
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2012: 125 Questions
Posted on · Episode: 2012 In which we use 125 questions to explain science. Today, 125 Questions.
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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 2001: Jacobean Evolution
Posted on · Episode: 2001 Of beasts, Bibles and Evolution: Intimations of Darwin in King James’ court. Today, beasts and Bibles.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2530: Observation and Explanation
Posted on · Episode: 2530 The observation is evolution and the theory is natural selection. Today, what did Darwin really do?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1970: Cope and Marsh
Posted on · Episode: 1970 Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and their needless war. Today, needless anger.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3245: Memes
Posted on · Episode: 3245 Memes, Internet Challenges, and the Selfish Gene. Today, memes.
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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.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1957: DNA Tracking
Posted on · Episode: 1957 Looking for eighty-million-year old Adam and Eve. Today, where did we come from?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1949: James Dwight Dana
Posted on · Episode: 1949 James Dwight Dana: a great, and nearly forgotten, American scientist. Today, America’s Charles Darwin.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2510: Reason in All Things
Posted on · Episode: 2510 Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.
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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 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 1835: Revisiting Stirrups
Posted on · Episode: 1835 Lynn White, Thomas Kuhn, Charles Darwin: Beginnings of great ideas. Today, stirrups revisited.