Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 1468 The evolution of the bicycle.  Today, let's talk about bicycles and freedom.

Episode: 2529 Comparing Fingerprints: What's Involved and What can go Wrong.  Today, who dunnit?

Episode: 3337  Claude Bernard's important medical science, horrifically achieved.  Today, let's meet a problematic scientist.

Episode: 2018 The Chamberlen family secret: the invention of forceps.  Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson reveals family secrets.

Episode: 3007 Samuel Gragg's Unusual Chair.  Today we look at an elastic Chair.

Episode: 3336 The evolution and potential demise of the lowly Nickel.  Today, let us spend the lowly nickel.

Episode: 1467 Napoleon Bonaparte and Iron in France.  Today, Napoleon builds iron monuments.

Episode: 1466 An old botany book for young girls changes scientific thinking.  Today, a young student forms a scientific theory.

Episode #3335 Learning to fly non-stop from coast to coast in America.  Today, we fly across America.

Episode: 2527 Alphonse Bertillon: Measuring the Man.  Today, the measure of a man.

Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software.  Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.

Episode: 2909 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Providing Renewable Energy, A Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Lithium Ion Battery.  Today, a neat way to get energy.

Episode: 1465 In which random statistical clusters look significant.  Today, we flip six heads in a row.

Episode: 1464 Trying to teach technologies that were novel for us, but not our students.  Today, a thought about technological change and learning.

Episode: 1463 An old pig iron smelter in the New Hampshire underbrush.  Today, an old iron works hidden in the tall grass.

Episode: 1462 Jedidiah Morse, geographer and Samuel F. B. Morse's father.  Today, Jedidiah Morse's geography.

Episode: 2523 Georges-Eugene Haussmann Reshapes Paris.  Today, a city redone.

Episode: 3334 In Praise of Humble Lint.  Today highlighting a former fabric byproduct.

Episode: 2818 The Pompeian Paradox and Fiorelli's Body Casts.  Today, the Pompeian paradox.

Episode: 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes.  Today, we look through some really big telescopes.

Episode: 1460 The little-known Japanese art of Chindogu.  Today, the odd Japanese art of Chindogu.

Episode: 1459 A tongue-tied attempt to say what teaching is.  Today, teaching and ambiguity.

Episode: 1458 The brief bright day of the electric trolley in Houston.  Today, let's ride the Houston trolley.

Episode: 2520 Hybrid Electric Car Technology.  Today, we hit the brakes.

Episode: 2815 The spread of ideas in social networks.  Today, let's talk about engineered social networks.

Episode: 2638 Artificial Gravity for Human Spaceflight; What is Gained, What is Lost.  Today, astronaut Michael Barratt discusses the pros and cons of artificial gravity.

Episode: 1457 Eratosthenes's 2200 year old calculation of Earth's size.  Today, we measure the earth.

Episode: 1456 In which paper goes from China to Europe by way of Samarkand.  Today, paper makes a long journey.

Episode: 1455 A brief history of dentistry and pain.  Today, we drill teeth.

Episode: 1454 The sometimes astonishing results of juxtaposing contradictory ideas.  Today, a thought about juxtaposition and contradictions.

Episode: 2517 Rebecca Clarke: Violist, Composer, Woman.  Today, a woman in conflict.

Episode: 2978 Henri Matisse cuts paper to design a cover for the art magazine Verve.  Today we look at heroism through cut paper.

Episode: 3333 Lawrence Morely and Seafloor Spreading.  Today, a question of priority.

Episode: 3332 From DC Dynamo to AC Alternator.  Today, the dynamo.

Episode: 1453 Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens, and John Donne.  Today, a tale of two Huygens and John Donne.

Episode: 1451 Inventing the free public lending library: socialism in books.  Today, we invent the library.

Episode: 3331 Some thoughts about photography and reality.  Today, Let's take pictures.

Episode: 2513 The Importance of Teachers in Shaping our Lives.  Today, remembering our teachers.

Episode: 2905 Imagination's Contributions to Science and Technology, Developmental Psychology and Imagination.  Today, the gift of imagination.

Episode: 3245 Memes, Internet Challenges, and the Selfish Gene.  Today, memes.

Episode: 1450 In which we learn too much about Cleopatra and the Pharos Lighthouse.  Today, we look for Cleopatra.

Episode: 1449 Another look at image and reality: Fake Triceratops and manuscript books.  Today, more on images and reality.