Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1414: Advertisements in 1869
Episode: 1414 Viewing America through advertisements in Appleton's magazine, 1869. Today, advertisements just after the Civil War.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1412: NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis
Episode: 1412 NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis (or NEAT) and weight gain. Today, we lose weight.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1410: Homo Technologicus
Episode: 1410 Homo Technologicus. Today, a chicken-and-egg question.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3320: Brown
Episode: 3320 Brown. Today, Let’s talk about the color brown.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.