Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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 memory palace - Episode 122: Hercules
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This episode originally dropped in 2018.
- We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.
- Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon Rackham
- The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
- View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
- 1979 by Deru.
- The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1535: Inventing the Clock
Episode: 1535 The mechanical clock as tactile philosophy. Today, we invent the mechanical clock.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1534: Acceleration
Episode: 1534 Making sense of the slippery concept of acceleration. Today, let's think about falling.
Bay Curious - How South San Francisco Went From Industrial City to Biotech Hub
When scientists began tinkering with DNA in the 1970s, biotechnology was not welcome in leafy residential neighborhoods or many college towns. But it was embraced by an industrial city by the Bay. In today's episode we come to learn how South San Francisco became one of the world's most valuable hubs of biotech.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2563: Isaac Asimov
Episode: 2563 The Prolific Isaac Asimov. Today, science or fiction?
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3357: Backpropagation
Episode: 3357 Backpropagation: The idea that powers modern AI. Today, backpropagation, the trick behind modern AI.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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 became art.
Bay Curious - The Eccentric Personalities Behind Sunnyside Conservatory
Mary Balmana grew up in San Francisco and has driven down Monterey Boulevard near the Glen Park neighborhood hundreds of times. She often notices a large, beautiful Victorian building tucked between the houses and apartment buildings that dominate the block. And she's wondered, what's the story with it? How did such a grand building end up in such an unassuming spot?
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- The Eccentric Personalities Behind Sunnyside Conservatory, a 120-Year-Old Garden in San Francisco
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.