Engines of Our Ingenuity
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1143: Shakespeare and Medicine
Episode: 1143 Shakespeare's long-standing fascination with medicine. Today, Shakespeare's fascination with medicine.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1950: Girolamo Cardano
Episode: 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering renaissance thinker. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd shares a story of triumph and tragedy.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2714: Hub Motors
Episode: 2714 Hub Motors, aka In-Wheel Motors and their applications in electric vehicles. Today, re-inventing...wheels.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3296: Keeping the Lights On in Hong Kong
Episode: 3296 Icons of Hong Kong: Neon Signs, and Local Cinema. Today, we hope the lights never go out in Hong Kong.
Engines of Our Ingenuity1142: Legend and Flight
Episode: 1142 The accumulation of empirical data in the legends of flight. Today, old stories turn from legend into experimental development.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1140: Twentieth-Century Tents
Episode: 1140 Tents: a very old and very modern architecture. Today, a new architecture -- the tent!
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1139: The Wounded Story-Teller
Episode: 1139 The Wounded Story Teller recovers from illness. Today, we tell the story of an illness.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1138: The Texas City Disaster
Episode: 1138 Texas City, Roseburg, World Trade Center, Oklahoma City: a story of fertilizer and cigarettes. Today's story is about cigarettes and fertilizer.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1948: Lobster Shells
Episode: 1948 Sex, Love and Lobster Shells. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks where lobsters come from.
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2977: Thomas Jefferson and the Maison Carrée
Episode: 2977 Thomas Jefferson, the Maison Carre of Nmes, and the Virginia State Capitol. Today, Thomas Jefferson in love.