Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2813: An Ancient Earthquake
Posted on · Episode: 2813 Seneca the Younger and the Great Earthquake of 62 AD. Today, an ancient earthquake.
Posted on · Episode: 2813 Seneca the Younger and the Great Earthquake of 62 AD. Today, an ancient earthquake.
Posted on · A philosopher and a personal development coach discuss – and take listeners’ calls about – life’s pressing questions. Plus, a medical expert provides a “checklist” for holiday safety.
Posted on · Episode: 3096 The Learning Value of Philosophy. Today, getting ahead in the world.
Posted on · Episode: 1955 Stahl, Phlogiston, Anima, and Understanding. Today, heat as substance.
Posted on · Episode: 3239 A Materialist Controversy Inspired by the Human Body. Today, a never-ending feud.
Posted on · Episode: 1899 Kurt Gödel: A mathematician brings us down to earth. Today, a mathematician brings us down to earth.
Posted on · Episode: 3233 What the Toad Thought. Today, an existential moment.
Posted on · Episode: 1800 A concern about sciences that encompass everything. Today, a single science for all things?
Posted on · Episode: 1719 Edgar Allen Poe’s amazing cosmology. Today, gothic cosmology.
Posted on · Episode: 1668 Scientific instruments creating a new rhetoric. Today, new sciences, new languages.
Posted on · A new book examines the ideologies of Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke and how they perpetuated racist ideas and inequalities.
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: More road closures, examining voter lists, philosophers who perpetuated racist ideas, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week's news, and the music of Harry Potter.
Posted on · Episode: 1630 In which we ponder a very subjective notion of reality. Today, nature changes before our eyes.
Posted on · Episode: 1555 Looking behind the stories for the real Hypatia. Today, looking for the person behind the story.
Posted on · Episode: 1543 Archimedes’ pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes’ pump.