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Tag: zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1946: Crocodile / Alligator

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 30, 2020 · Episode: 1946 Crocodiles and alligators: no tears, but a peculiar senstivity and intelligence. Today, the sensitive crocodile.

Tags alligators cockroaches crocodile tears dinosaurs gavials intelligence predator prey sharks tomistomas Topsell ugly beautiful animals zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1945: Jeffries Wyman

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 23, 2020 · Episode: 1945 Jeffries Wyman: Science at its quiet best. Today, a quiet academic.

Tags agassiz anthropology archaeology black gorillas harvard James Russell Lowell Jeffries Wyman medicine Oliver Wendell Holmes orangutans racism science scientific revolution zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistance Movement

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 19, 2020 · Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.

Tags aids bacteriology biology dna ebola ecology Elephants fishing microbiology pneumonia virology zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1935: Wilson, Before Audubon

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 25, 2020 · Episode: 1935 Alexander Wilson, America’s ornithologist before Audubon. Today, an unlikely ornithologist.

Tags Alexander Wilson art Audubon birds ornithologist poetry scotland species zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1925: In the Museums

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 30, 2020 · Episode: 1925 Reflecting on nine museum-dense days in England. Today, we go to museums.

Tags America Air Museum Cambridge Duxford england Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Florence Nightingale Great Britain Greenwich Maritime London museums Natural History Science Museum Tate Art Museum Victoria and Albert zoology

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 2228: Ancient Explanations of Bird Migration

Richard H. Armstrong

Posted on August 7, 2019 · Episode: 2228 Ancient Explanations of Bird Migrations. Today, our guest, classicist Richard Armstrong, watches the ancients studying bird migrations.  

Tags aristotle avian bird migrations bird watching Crans Garden Warblers greece Homer's Iliad marshlands Olaus Magnus ornithology Pliny the Elder Redstarts Robins Stork transmutation zoology

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 1585: Dissonance

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 31, 2018 · Episode: 1585 In which the elephant Prathida teaches me about dissonance and Christmas. Today, dissonance, elephants, and the holiday season.  

Tags animal behavior conflict Coventry Carol learning mind music zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1586: Topsell’s Beasts

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 17, 2018 · Episode: 1586 Topsell’s history of four-footed beasts and serpents. Today, a zoology book.

Tags animals bestiaries bestiary biology early printing galileo King James Bible Macbeth scientific method Shakespeare woodcut illustrations zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1514: The Resistance Movement

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 21, 2018 · Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.  

Tags aids bacteriology biology dna ebola ecology Elephants fishing microbiology pneumonia virology zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1431: Dogs

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 24, 2017 · Episode: 1431 In which dogs humanize us. Today, some sidelights on the history of dogs.  

Tags anthropology archaeology biology Neanderthal psychology wolves zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1407: A Matter of Size

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 6, 2017 · Episode: 1407 A matter of size: scaling laws among living species. Today, a matter of size.

Tags ecology gravity metabolism species whales zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1403: Vanishing Sea Otters

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 29, 2017 · Episode: 1403 Vanishing sea otters: only one piece of a long food chain. Today, let’s take a quick trip through a long food chain.  

Tags ecology environment kelp sea urchins species whales zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1128: Of Whales and Elephants

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on March 14, 2016 · Episode: 1128 Of whales and elephants: a remarkable convergence of attributes Today, we find that whales and elephants have more in common than just size.

Tags acoustics animal biology communication ecology ecosystem environment zoology

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