Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 1560 In which we 'look' at the world through a narrow slit.  Today, we look at the world through a narrow slit.

Episode: 1559 Music-making: the first technology.  Today, we look for the oldest technology.

Episode: 1558 Mastered by nature, we o'ercome by art - then as now.  Today, an old debate in a new arena.

Episode: 1556 In which we run out of manual arts teachers for our schools.  Today, let's work with our hands.

Episode: 2583 Children and their Goals.  Today, president, pope, astronaut.

Episode: 3253 Teaching Computers to Think.  Today, Teaching a Computer.

Episode: 3166 Spoonerisms and Their Unwilling Namesake.  Today, spooning in speakerisms.

Episode: 1554 In which new science yields new instruments: 1500 to 1950.  Today, a new class of machines and new viewpoint.

Episode: 1553 Galileo, Torricelli, von Guericke, and the idea of a vacuum.  Today, we invent vacuum.

Episode: 1552 The ocean - the wild card in global warming.  Today, we wonder how things are really heating up.

Episode: 1551 In which Gary Larson tells us the piano was invented earlier than we thought.  oday, a lesson in invention from the Far Side.

Episode: 2578 The Wonders of Water Towers.  Today, water flows downhill.

Episode: 2864 The theorem of Reverend Bayes.  Today, let's talk about uncertainty and an 18th century Presbyterian minister.

Episode: 3247 Proust, Turing, and the Measure of Humanity.  Today, we go from Turing to Proust.

Episode: 1550 Making a book of The Engines of Our Ingenuity.  Today, we wonder how to make a book.

Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide.  Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.

Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century.  Today, let's reclaim mystery.

Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land.  Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.

Episode: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine?  Today, a turn of the screw.

Episode: 2687 Getting to know the organisms that live on and in the human body.  Today, what lives within us.

Episode: 3367 In which Scientific American Magazine gets wrong, the airflow during singing.  Today, Scientific American gets it wrong.

Episode: 3366 The throw-away bottle cap: More than it seems to be.  Today, we invent the bottle cap.

Episode: 1545 The English and 18th century ballooning.  Today, we ride the first hot-air balloons in England.

Episode: 1544 An operetta about electric lights, written before Edison's light bulb.  Today, an electric-light opera.

Episode: 1543 Archimedes' pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science.  Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes' pump.

Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers.  Today, some numbers for the ages.

Episode: 3228 Designing safe computer controls.  Today, flying by computer.

Episode: 3365  A 1906 set of Shop Notes offers a lesson in technological change.  Today, a manual tells us more than it means to.

Episode: 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda.  Today, science tries to find its way.

Episode: 1541 Do 'Horseshoe Nails' really alter human history?  Today, we ask if horseshoe nails are real.

Episode: 1540 The Korean Turtle Boat - the first ironclad.  Today, we meet a turtle with an iron shell.

Episode: 2572 Melville and Anna Bissell and the Carpet Sweeper.  Today, a husband and wife engineer success.

Episode: 3363 Richard Sutton and reinforcement learning.  Today, reinforcement learning.

Episode: 3362 A 1914 Engineering Magazine teaches us much about the evolution of our technology.  Today, a revealing old magazine.

Episode: 3361 The versatile, intelligent, Raven has much to teach us.  Today, ravens in thin air.

Episode: 1539 In which a thin layer of fluid determines whether an airplane flies.  Today, a wind blows by us.

Episode: 1538 In which the various centuries show their faces.  Today, we ask what a century looks like.

Episode: 1537 John Wilkins talks about life on the Moon, in 1638.  Today, life on the moon.

Episode: 2570 Celebrating Human Ingenuity.  Today, a story in two parts.

Episode: 3360 The incomparable sound of the legendary Fender Rhodes.  Today we consider "The legendary Fender Rhodes".

Episode: 3359 An very special lineage: Charles Darwin: Grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin.  Today, Charles Darwin's grandparents.

Episode: 3358 Onesiphore Pecqueur and the invention of your car's differential gears.  Today, let us meet Onesiphore Pecqueur.