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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1917: Etienne Jules Marey

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 2, 2020 · Episode: 1917 In which Etienne Jules Marey tries to copy the animals. Today, we try to build machines that work like animals.

Tags anatomy animal locomotion biomimetics birds flight E. J. Marey france medicine Muybridge physiology Wright Brothers

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3239: The Materialism Controversy

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on July 30, 2020 · Episode: 3239 A Materialist Controversy Inspired by the Human Body. Today, a never-ending feud.

Tags materialism philosophy physiology religion

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1841: Music, Music, Music!

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 15, 2020 · Episode: 1841 “All I want is Loving you and Music,Music, Music!” Today, music, music, music!

Tags animal music making darwin endorphines evolution human brain music natural selection physiology psychology Teresa Brewer

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1834: A Billion Heartbeats

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 2, 2020 · Episode: 1834 In which all the beasts are allotted one billion heartbeats. Today, a billion heartbeats.

Tags anatomy animal life spans heartbeats My Grandfather's Clock physiology respiration Stephen Jay Gould thermodynamics time zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2619: Space Medicine

Michael Barratt

Posted on August 14, 2019 · Episode: 2619 Practicing Medicine Off the Planet; A New Physiology. Today, Astronaut Michael Barratt talks about medicine in space.

Tags astronaut medicine Michael Barratt nasa physiology space weightlessness

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1677: Tricking the Eye

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 1, 2019 · Episode: 1677 In which I encounter the 16th Century in a Fort Worth Museum. Today, we trick the eye.

Tags art camera obscura descartes eyeball painting physiology Scheuchzer trompe l'oeil vision

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1634: Daedalus

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 6, 2019 · Episode: 1634 Flying the Aegean Sea in Daedalus’ slipstream. Today, we mix a magic drink for Daedalus and Icarus.

Tags daedalus design exercise physiology flight greece human powered flight icarus mit physiology transportation

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1623: Joel Dorman and Esther Steele

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 14, 2019 · Episode: 1623 The textbooks of J. Dorman and Esther Steele. Today, we meet two very special teachers.  

Tags civil war discipline education Esther Steele history Joel Dorman Steele physics physiology science teaching textbooks women zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2821: Lobotomy

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on October 16, 2018 · Episode: 2821 Science gone wrong: the lobotomy. Today, science gone wrong.

Tags brain leucotomy lobotomy Moniz Nobel prize physiology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1125: The Visible Man

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on March 9, 2016 · Episode: 1125 The Visible Man: An executed convict is brought back to life on the internet Today, we create a body of knowledge.

Tags anatomy capitol electronic information medicine physiology punishment

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3040: Leonardo and Borelli

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on January 26, 2016 · Episode: 3040 Leonardo and Borelli Today, two hemispheres come together.

Tags anatomy biomechanics borelli DA dissection empiricism human italy leonardo mathematics method motion naples physiology pisa renaissance scientific tuscany vinci

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