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 2493: Child’s Play
Episode: 2493 Child's Play: the role of play in education. Today, child's play.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2801: The MTT
Episode: 2801 The Maria Theresa Thaler. Today, the almighty Thaler.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - 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.
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.