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Tag: war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1212: Macroparasites

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 28, 2020 · Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.

Tags biology commerce disease history sociology war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1907: Earlier Than We Think

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 17, 2020 · Episode: 1907 It is Earlier Than We Think. The road ahead is longer than we thought. Today, it is earlier than we think.

Tags A Heat Transfer Textbook altruism big bang community Duke ESP engineering McCarthy era Pascal's wager progress public policy reconcilliation religion science Vannever Bush Vietnam war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1885: Hurricane & Spitfire

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 31, 2020 · Episode: 1885 Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire: plowshares become swords. Today, we beat a plowshare into a sword.

Tags aerial warfare Battle of Britain design engineeing flight Hawker Hurricane Merlin Engine Schneider Trophy Snoopy Supermarine Spitfire technological progress Thomas Sopwith war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2770: Building the Mustang

Fitz Walker

Posted on February 5, 2020 · Episode: 2770 Developing the P-51 Mustang fighter. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker, remembers the P-51 Mustang.

Tags airplane aviation england fighter plane flight mustang naca nasa North American P-51 spitfire transportation war wwii

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1744: Chinese Bombard

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 20, 2019 · Episode: 1744 The Chinese origin of the European bombard. Today, a cannon that’s two hundred years too old.

Tags agriculture animal husbandry arms bombards bombs buddhism Buddhists firearms guns manure pistols saltpeter war weapons

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1738: Maxim’s Airplane

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 2, 2019 · Episode: 1738 Maxim’s airplane. Today, two early not-quite-airplanes.  

Tags Ader airplanes flight Hiram Maxim Hudson Maxim invention Maxim gun Maxim's aeroplane transportation war wright

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1737: Airplanes and Krupp Guns

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 30, 2019 · Episode: 1737 A Reflection airplanes, war, and the Krupp Works. Today, airplanes and Krupp guns.

Tags aerial warfare Alfred Krupp artillery Bertha Krupp Big Bertha bombing Dicke Bertha dirigibles Gustav Krupp howitzers military Nuremberg trials war Zeppelins

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1731: To Kill a City

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 16, 2019 · Episode: 1731 Why bombs can’t kill a city. Today, we try to kill a city.

Tags 9 11 airplanes bombing production sociology Viet Nam war WW-II

Houston Matters

A Veteran Returns To Iraq To Reflect On The ‘Places And Names’ Where He Fought

Michael Hagerty

Posted on June 17, 2019 · Elliot Ackerman discusses his memoir of fighting in Iraq and returning as a writer.

Tags afghanistan authors books Brazos Bookstore Dark at the Crossing Elliot Ackerman iraq Michael Hagerty Places and Names veterans war

Houston Matters

Film Explores The Psychological Toll Of The Vietnam War

Michael Hagerty

Posted on April 30, 2019 · Psychologist and director Ricardo Ainslie talks about his documentary, The Mark of War.

Tags film film screening Michael Hagerty psychoanalyst psychologist ptsd Ricardo Ainslie Rice Cinema veterans Vietnam Vietnam veterans Vietnam War war

Houston Matters

Battleship Texas Faces Danger In Both War And Peace Time

Michael Hagerty

Posted on February 6, 2019 · Houston Matters tours the ship and learns about the threats it faces from the elements.

Tags Andy Smith battleship texas d day history Michael Hagerty Navy texas parks and wildlife USS Texas war

Houston Matters

Full Show: Political Roundup, New Restaurants, And The Battleship Texas (Feb. 6, 2019)

Abner Fletcher

Posted on February 6, 2019 · On Wednesday's Houston Matters: Sugar Land convict remains, the latest political news, the best new restaurants, and a tour of the Battleship Texas.

Tags battleship texas convict leasing Fort Bend County full menu history Navy Political Roundup politics State of the State state of the union sugar land Sugar Land remains USS Texas war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 9, 2019 · Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial. Today, we visit a really big statue.

Tags Communist concrete memorials monuments russia sculpture Soviet Union Steppe Volgograd Volvograd Vuchetich war WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1607: Fire Control

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 5, 2018 · Episode: 1607 Continuous-aim firing: a diagnosis of an ill-received idea. Today, we aim a gun from a rocking platform.

Tags design fire control guns innovation invention Navy Scott Sims war

Houston Matters

Historian Michael Beschloss Examines Lessons Learned From ‘Presidents Of War’

Abner Fletcher

Posted on November 15, 2018 · 'Presidents of War' examines the difficulties of being a wartime leader and how over our 200-year-plus history executive war decisions have evolved.

Tags history Michael Beschloss Presidents of War US Presidents war Wars wartime President

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