Engines of Our Ingenuity
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Engines of Our Ingenuity
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135 episodis
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1551: Inventing the Piano
Episode: 1551 In which Gary Larson tells us the piano was invented earlier than we thought. oday, a lesson in invention from the Far Side.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2864: Bayes’ Theorem
Episode: 2864 The theorem of Reverend Bayes. Today, let's talk about uncertainty and an 18th century Presbyterian minister.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3247: The Prouste Questionnaire
Episode: 3247 Proust, Turing, and the Measure of Humanity. Today, we go from Turing to Proust.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1550: Finding the Book
Episode: 1550 Making a book of The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Today, we wonder how to make a book.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1549: Comptus Rendus, 1836
Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide. Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1547: Ripe for Revolution
Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let's reclaim mystery.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1546: Max Jakob
Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land. Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2576: Screw Caps for Wine
Episode: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine? Today, a turn of the screw.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2687: What Lives Within Us
Episode: 2687 Getting to know the organisms that live on and in the human body. Today, what lives within us.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3367: Scientific American’s Blunder
Episode: 3367 In which Scientific American Magazine gets wrong, the airflow during singing. Today, Scientific American gets it wrong.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3366: Bottle Cap
Episode: 3366 The throw-away bottle cap: More than it seems to be. Today, we invent the bottle cap.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1545: English Balloons
Episode: 1545 The English and 18th century ballooning. Today, we ride the first hot-air balloons in England.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1544: Electric Light Opera
Episode: 1544 An operetta about electric lights, written before Edison's light bulb. Today, an electric-light opera.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1543: Ceredi’s Pump
Episode: 1543 Archimedes' pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes' pump.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2575: Prime Numbers
Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers. Today, some numbers for the ages.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3228: Computer Safety
Episode: 3228 Designing safe computer controls. Today, flying by computer.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3365: 1906 Shop Notes
Episode: 3365 A 1906 set of Shop Notes offers a lesson in technological change. Today, a manual tells us more than it means to.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1542: Francis Bacon
Episode: 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda. Today, science tries to find its way.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1541: History and Horseshoe Nails
Episode: 1541 Do 'Horseshoe Nails' really alter human history? Today, we ask if horseshoe nails are real.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1540: The Ironclad Turtle
Episode: 1540 The Korean Turtle Boat - the first ironclad. Today, we meet a turtle with an iron shell.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2572: Melville and Anna Bissell
Episode: 2572 Melville and Anna Bissell and the Carpet Sweeper. Today, a husband and wife engineer success.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3363: Reinforcement Learning
Episode: 3363 Richard Sutton and reinforcement learning. Today, reinforcement learning.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3362: The Engineering Magazine
Episode: 3362 A 1914 Engineering Magazine teaches us much about the evolution of our technology. Today, a revealing old magazine.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3361: Ravens in Thin Air
Episode: 3361 The versatile, intelligent, Raven has much to teach us. Today, ravens in thin air.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2570: Celebrating Human Ingenuity
Episode: 2570 Celebrating Human Ingenuity. Today, a story in two parts.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3360: Fender Rhodes
Episode: 3360 The incomparable sound of the legendary Fender Rhodes. Today we consider "The legendary Fender Rhodes".
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3359: Darwin-Wedgwood
Episode: 3359 An very special lineage: Charles Darwin: Grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin. Today, Charles Darwin’s grandparents.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3358: Onesiphore Pecqueur
Episode: 3358 Onesiphore Pecqueur and the invention of your car’s differential gears. Today, let us meet Onesiphore Pecqueur.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1535: Inventing the Clock
Episode: 1535 The mechanical clock as tactile philosophy. Today, we invent the mechanical clock.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1534: Acceleration
Episode: 1534 Making sense of the slippery concept of acceleration. Today, let's think about falling.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2563: Isaac Asimov
Episode: 2563 The Prolific Isaac Asimov. Today, science or fiction?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3357: Backpropagation
Episode: 3357 Backpropagation: The idea that powers modern AI. Today, backpropagation, the trick behind modern AI.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3356: Calligraphic Art
Episode: 3356 A form of decorative calligraphic art emerges from penmanship instruction at 19th century business colleges. Today, when handwriting be...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3355: Tin Cans
Episode: 3355 The rise of the lowly and ubiquitous Tin Can, and its various openers. Today, let us make tin cans.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1533: The Triple Nickel
Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory
Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let's theorize.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks
Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3353: Sandrin
Episode: 3353 An example showing how music, like other technologies, evolves. Today, a lesson from an old song.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1530: The Medieval Mason
Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1529: Osborne Reynolds
Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.