Episodes

  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 1212: Macroparasites

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 1212: Macroparasites
    Jul 8 2024
    Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 1211: Medora

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 1211: Medora
    Jul 7 2024
    Episode: 1211 Theodore Roosevelt and the mad Marquis create Medora ND. Today, we visit Medora, North Dakota.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 1210: Pasteur’s Biomilitarism

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 1210: Pasteur’s Biomilitarism
    Jul 6 2024
    Episode: 1210 In which Louis Pasteur puts medicine on a war footing. Today, the language of war attaches itself to medicine.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 1209: Writing About Flight

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 1209: Writing About Flight
    Jul 5 2024
    Episode: 1209 Early fliers -- all seem to've been good-looking and literate. Today, we write about flight.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 2237: Modeling the Atom

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 2237: Modeling the Atom
    Jul 4 2024
    Episode: 2237 Modeling the atom: Making quantum uncertainty reveal corporeal solidity. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd models the atom.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 3044: Randomized Clinical Trials

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 3044: Randomized Clinical Trials
    Jul 3 2024
    Episode: 3044 Randomized Clinical Trials. Today, statistics, evidence and medicine.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 3299: Vernor Vinge Sees our Future

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 3299: Vernor Vinge Sees our Future
    Jul 2 2024
    Episode: 3299 Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky and the future of technology. Today, Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky and the future of computation.
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    4 mins
  • Engines of Our Ingenuity 1208: The Panama Railroad

    Engines of Our Ingenuity 1208: The Panama Railroad
    Jul 1 2024

    Episode: 1208 The first transcontinental railroad -- and no golden spike! Today, we build the first transcontinental railroad.
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    4 mins