Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1547: Ripe for Revolution
Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let's reclaim mystery.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Bay Curious - Overlogged and Thirsty: Bay Area Redwoods Are Struggling
Muir Woods National Monument is known for its towering redwoods because some old growth trees have been preserved there. But redwoods used to grow all over the San Francisco Bay Area until they were logged for their timber just after the Gold Rush. Most of what we see in places like Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland are second growth trees, ones that have grown since that time. After the 1906 earthquake and fire was another period of intense logging. Timbermen worked their way up the coast to provide the lumber that would rebuild San Francisco. Bay Curious listener Christy Dundon wants to know just how much of our old growth forests were devestated.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2576: Screw Caps for Wine
Episode: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine? Today, a turn of the screw.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Bay Curious - The Towering Cross in the Middle of San Francisco
Tucked away on a wooded hillside in the middle of San Francisco sits a big concrete cross. When it was built, it could be seen from miles around. Now, a thick grove of trees partially shields it from view. Over the years, Bay Curious has gotten several questions about the cross that we answer in today's episode, which first aired in 2021.
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- Why There's a Cross on San Francisco's Highest Peak
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.