Engines of Our Ingenuity
The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 170
- Years Active
- 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1413: Poets and the Industrial Revolution
Episode: 1413 How contemporary Romantic poets saw the Industrial Revolution. Today, Romantic poets and the Industrial Revolution.
00:03:39 |
Sun 27 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1412: NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis
Episode: 1412 NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis (or NEAT) and weight gain. Today, we lose weight.
00:03:41 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1411: John Dalton’s Notation
Episode: 1411 The role of notation in John Dalton's atomic theory. Today, we wonder how to draw an atom.
00:03:47 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2493: Child’s Play
Episode: 2493 Child's Play: the role of play in education. Today, child's play.
00:03:48 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2801: The MTT
Episode: 2801 The Maria Theresa Thaler. Today, the almighty Thaler.
00:03:50 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3321: Scott Joplin and Ragtime
Episode: 3321 Scott Joplin persevered in creating Ragtime music as a black musician in post-Civil War America. . Today, Joplin and Ragtime.
00:03:52 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1410: Homo Technologicus
Episode: 1410 Homo Technologicus. Today, a chicken-and-egg question.
00:03:45 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1409: The Redoubtable DC-3
Episode: 1409 The Douglas DC-3: an airplane for all seasons. Today, we ride the first modern passenger airplane.
00:03:37 |
Sun 20 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1408: The Tortoise and the Hare
Episode: 1408 Fast game, slow game, and Stone Age population dynamics. Today, a Paleolithic story of the tortoise and the hare.
00:03:55 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1407: A Matter of Size
Episode: 1407 A matter of size: scaling laws among living species. Today, a matter of size.
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Fri 18 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2491: Mitch Miller and the Gang
Episode: 2491 Mitch Miller and the Gang: A Look at American Pop Culture in the Late 1950s. Today, we follow the bouncing ball.
00:03:42 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2809: A Goblin Book
Episode: 2809 Laurence Housman designs an edition of Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market. Today, Goblins, sisterly love, and a masterpiece of book design.
00:03:50 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2613: Can We Hear Shapes?
Episode: 2613 Can we hear shapes? Today let's ask: Can we hear shapes?
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Tue 15 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3320: Brown
Episode: 3320 Brown. Today, Let’s talk about the color brown.
00:03:51 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1406: Medieval Age of Reason
Episode: 1406 The end of the medieval age of reason. Today, a brief bright era in medieval Europe.
00:03:44 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1405: Brunel – Father and Son
Episode: 1405 Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Today, two larger-than-life engineers.
00:03:42 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1404: Prerequisites
Episode: 1404 Prerequisites seen as a reflection of the structure of science. Today, let's talk about the prerequisite course.
00:03:40 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2485: Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
Episode: 2485 Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: Controversial Mathematician of the Enlightenment. Today, the controversies of an enlightened mathematician.
00:03:48 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2725: The Atocha Bombing Memorial
Episode: 2725 The Atocha Bombing Memorial: Remembering the dead — creating hope. Today, mourning and monuments.
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Wed 09 Jul 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3319: When WWII Began
Episode: 3319 Perhaps WWII really began when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Today, when did World-War-Two begin?
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Tue 08 Jul 2025
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