Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1469: The Hourglass
Episode: 1469 The hourglass: the poor man's clock, the poor man's metaphor. Today, let's look at the hourglass.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Kaliningrad
Located on the Baltic Sea, sandwiched between the nations of Lithuania and Poland, is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad, as it is today, does not have a deep history. For most of its history, it was known as Königsberg.
The reason it exists at all dates back to the Teutonic Knights in the Middle Ages and the aftermath of two world wars in the 20th century.
Today, its status is unique to say the least, and it has the potential to become a geopolitical flashpoint.
Learn more about Kaliningrad and its history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1468: The Bicycle
Episode: 1468 The evolution of the bicycle. Today, let's talk about bicycles and freedom.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Year 1950
In the year 1950, the world was halfway through the 20th century.
In the 25 years prior, the world had seen the greatest economic downturn in modern history and the greatest war the world had ever known.
New technologies were being developed, and many previous technologies were making their way into the hands of regular people, radically transforming their lives.
On top of all of that, the entire world was about to embark on a total reordering of the geopolitical order.
Learn more about the world in the year 1950 and the changes that occurred over the previous 25 years on the 1,950th episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2529: Comparing Fingerprints
Episode: 2529 Comparing Fingerprints: What's Involved and What can go Wrong. Today, who dunnit?
the memory palace - Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs
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Music
- Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480
- Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence
- Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.
- The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.
- Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
- Sustainable from H. Takahashi.
Notes
- There's a particularly good article by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar.
- You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here, if you haven't already.
Curious City - Two-and-a-half minutes: Pilot John Ginley’s dance with disaster
While flying over downtown Chicago on July 18, 2018, a World-War-II era single-engine Ercoupe airplane suffered “complete mechanical failure.”
“The throttle cable completely broke off of the carburetor,” said pilot John Ginley. “There was no way to control the engine.”
Still, Ginley and his co-pilot — his then-girlfriend and now-wife Ally Ginley — managed to land in the southbound lanes of DuSable Lake Shore Drive, successfully avoiding cars, humans, and the 35th Street pedestrian bridge.
In our last episode, we heard about the history of forced plane landings on Chicago’s scenic, multilane expressway. Today, we hear Ginley’s story of escaping imminent disaster from the pilot himself.
Bay Curious - When Biological Weapons Were Secretly Tested in San Francisco
In 1950, the U.S. military sprayed bacteria over San Francisco as part of a biological weapons test. The test team thought the bacteria it used was harmless, but several people got sick and one person died. We explore the history and impacts of this clandestine operation, now known as Operation Seaspray, on U.S. military policy and one man's family.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Compound Interest (Encore)
One of the most powerful forces in economics and finance is compound interest.
Not everyone understands compound interest, even though they may reap its benefits or suffer its consequences.
Compounding has the potential to build fortunes and wreck empires. The effects of compounding are also not limited to interest payments. It can apply to a great many things in and out of the natural world.
Learn more about compound interest, how it works and its awesome potential on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3337: Claude Bernard
Episode: 3337 Claude Bernard’s important medical science, horrifically achieved. Today, let’s meet a problematic scientist.