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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1671: Other Selves, Other Christmases

Mark DiClaudio

Posted on January 1, 2021 · Episode: 1671 Quantum mechanics takes us to a place we didn’t know was there. Today, we think about multiple Christmases.

Tags alternate realities christmas David Deutsch determinism free will Hugh Everett light parallel universes quantum mechanics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3244: Bias in Face Recognition Software

Karen Fang

Posted on December 8, 2020 · Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.

Tags ai algorithm artificial intelligence bias cinematography criminology data programming diversity face recognition software facial recognition film film processing FRS Fuji Jim Crow Kodak light mugshot objectivity passkey photography pin-up Policing portraiture race Robert Mapplethorpe skin tone surveillance

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3091: Soil Spectroscopy

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on November 17, 2020 · Episode: 3091 Soil Spectroscopy in Africa. Today, we see the light.

Tags agroforestry data Grapes of Wrath light newton soil management Steinbeck

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3085: Einstein and the Quantum

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on October 29, 2020 · Episode: 3085 Einstein’s Bigger Deal. Today Einstein's bigger deal.

Tags duality einstein light newton opticks quantum theory Thomas Young

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3028: Robert Grosseteste’s Big Bang

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on March 12, 2020 · Episode: 3028 Grosseteste’s Big Bang. Today, a medieval big bang.

Tags big bang grosseteste light medieval newton Old Testament

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3024: Thomas Young, Polymath

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 13, 2020 · Episode: 3024 Thomas Young, Polymath. Today, a most interesting man.

Tags double-slit experiment Encyclopaedia Britannica light newton Rosetta Stone Thomas Young wave-particle duality

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3021: Was Einstein’s Work His Own

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 11, 2020 · Episode: 3021 Einstein’s Authenticity. Today, was Einstein's work his own?

Tags einstein electromagnetic waves light lorentz maxwell Maxwell’s equations Poincaré relativity special relativity

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1518: Looking for Reality

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 30, 2018 · Episode: 1518 A concern about computers and the redefinition of reality. Today, we try to tell fact from fiction.

Tags art computer graphics images light movies radiation special effects Torrance

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3163: Questioning The Speed Of Light

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 22, 2018 · Episode: 3163 Answering Questions About Variable Speed Of Light Theories. Today, the speed of light.

Tags artificial intelligence einstein light physics writing

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1454: Juxtaposition and Contradiction

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 10, 2018 · Episode: 1454 The sometimes astonishing results of juxtaposing contradictory ideas. Today, a thought about juxtaposition and contradictions.  

Tags atomic theory caloric heat Huygens Newton light orion particles physics psychology religion waves

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3091: Soil Spectroscopy

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on November 3, 2016 · Episode: 3091 Soil Spectroscopy in Africa. Today, we see the light.

Tags agroforestry data Grapes of Wrath light newton soil management Steinbeck

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3085: Einstein and the Quantum

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on September 22, 2016 · Episode: 3085 Einstein’s Bigger Deal Today Einstein's bigger deal.

Tags duality einstein light newton opticks quantum theory thomas young

News

An Illegal Left Turn Caused The Metro Light Rail Train Crash

Gail Delaughter

Posted on August 31, 2016 ·     Metro is looking into a light rail crash that shut down part of its Southeast Line earlier today. As Gail Delaughter reports from the News 88.7 Transportation Desk, officials believe it was caused by a driver making an illegal turn.   Laboring in the hot sun, crews had to pull the wreckage of […]

Tags Crash houston light metro train uh

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1181: Edith Humphrey

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on June 29, 2016 · Episode: 1181 In which Edith Humphry doesn’t quite receive the Nobel Prize Today, a woman doesn’t quite get the Nobel Prize.

Tags bernal chemistry chirality inorganic light molecular pasteur polarized structure werner women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3035: Light Emitting Diodes

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on December 24, 2015 · Episode: 3035 Light Emitting Diodes Today, we get the LED out.

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