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Tag: geography

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1590: The Great Wall of China

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 26, 2018 · Episode: 1590 The Great Wall of China — a long and checquered history. Today, a 2300-year-old wall.

Tags artillery cannon construction civil engineering geography Han Dynasty military defenses Ming Dynasty Mongolia Qin Dynasty Robert Frost the silk road

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1536: Old Airports

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 9, 2018 · Episode: 1536 A seventy-year old picture of transcontinental flight. Today, let’s fly across American in 1930.

Tags aircraft airplanes Central Airports DC-3 Fokker Ford Trimotor geography Rockne transportation

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1501: Horizontal Diffusion

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 25, 2018 · Episode: 1501 The orientation of continents determines their development. Today, the advantage of being horizontal.  

Tags agriculture anthropology cartography climate domesticated animals farming geography technology wheel writing

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1462: Jedidiah Morse

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 31, 2018 · Episode: 1462 Jedidiah Morse, geographer and Samuel F. B. Morse’s father. Today, Jedidiah Morse’s geography.  

Tags Calvinism cartography geography indians mapmaking Native Americans religion telegraph

Houston Matters

The Geography Of Genius: Why Do Some Places Spawn Great Ideas?

Michael Hagerty

Posted on November 28, 2017 · Former NPR correspondent Eric Weiner talks about his book, The Geography of Genius.

Tags books Eric Weiner geography Geography of Bliss Michael Hagerty npr philosophical traveler The Geography of Genius traveler

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on June 6, 2017 · Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.

Tags Almagest aristotle cartography Eratosthenes Geographia geography latitude longitude maps Marinos of Tyre mathematical projection Ptolemy

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1350: Amerigo Vespucci

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 29, 2017 · Episode: 1350 Vespucci and the naming of America. Today, we name America.

Tags columbus exploration geography lavoisier oxygen Priestly Scheele transportation Waldseemuller

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1250: Water in the Desert

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 4, 2016 · Episode: 1250 Qanats: ancient watercourses, heroic constructions. Today, we talk about qanats. (Betcha don’t know what a qanat is!)

Tags aquifer Arabs civil engineering works geography Jordan middle east Romans syria water supply systems

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1241: Looking for Franklin

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 17, 2016 · Episode: 1241 The search for Franklin and the search for the Northwest Passage. Today, we go looking for a lost explorer.  

Tags Arctic exploration Canada geography Inuits Livingstone Schwatka Stanley

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1204: Baron Von Humboldt

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on August 8, 2016 · Episode: 1204 Baron von Humboldt’s remarkable exploration of Meso-America Today, a nearly forgotten hero.

Tags bonpland chimbarozo exploration geography jefferson natural science

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1192: Black Sea

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on July 18, 2016 · Episode: 1192 In which a deluge transforms the Black Sea — and farming Today, let’s ride the wake of an old old flood.

Tags agriculture babylonian flooding flow fluid genesis geography gilgamesh mythology noah oceans

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1150: Arguing Racism

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on April 18, 2016 · Episode: 1150 Arguing racism: Time for rational, rather than moral, arguments Today, we analyze racism.

Tags adam and anthropology bible creation darwin eve genetics geography

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