Les meilleurs podcasts Ingenuity (2024)

Episode: 2243 Organizing for disaster: One place where New Orleans did it right. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, prepares for a rainy day.Par Michael Berryhill

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2693: To Our SHips 3:47

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Episode: 2693 On the Nature of Ships, and a Fond Farewell to the Shuttle Discovery. Greetings from the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery, where today we celebrate our ships.Par Michael Barratt

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1169: Two Kinds of Structural Design 3:34

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Episode: 1169 From stacked stone to steel: a shift in structural concept. Today, we make buildings by stacking stone.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1168: Voltaire and Science 3:37

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Episode: 1168 Voltaire, Newton, science, and the French Revolution. Today, Newton, Voltaire, and the French Revolution.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1167: Machiavelli 3:36

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Episode: 1167 Machiavelli's attempt to make objective science of statecraft. Today, thoughts about Machiavelli and immature science.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1166: Josquin Des Prez 3:37

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Episode: 1166 Searching for the historical Josquin Desprez. Today, academic detectives look for the real Josquin.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1994: Theory and Encryption 3:49

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Episode: 1994 Encryption: abstraction in the world of practical business. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd sends secret messages.Par Dr. Andy Boyd

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2897: Privacy and Technology 3:50

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Episode: 2897 A (Very) Short History of Privacy and Technology. Today, privacy and technology.Par Catherine Patterson

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2779: Smart Phones / Wise Phones 3:49

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Episode: 2779 Smartphones/Wise Phones, our changing relationship with phones over the last century. Today, smartphones vs. wise phones.Par Roger Kaza

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1165: Count Rumford 3:28

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Episode: 1165 Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford and the conservation of energy. Today, we meet a Bavarian count who was born in colonial Massachusetts.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1164: Things Bite Back 3:32

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Episode: 1164 Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge Effect. Today, nature takes revenge.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1163: A Better Mousetrap 3:30

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Episode: 1163 To build a better mousetrap -- that people will use. Today, let's build a better mousetrap.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1162: Systems 3:31

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Episode: 1162 Systems: Much more than the sum of their parts. Today, let's see how machines transcend themselves.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1979: Airplane Reservations 3:48

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Episode: 1979 How to process five thousand airline reservation requests in one second. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd buys plane tickets.Par Dr. Andy Boyd

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3001: Archimedes To the Rescue 3:47

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Episode: 3001 Archimedes to the Rescue. Today, Archimedes to the rescue.Par Richard H. Armstrong

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall 3:48

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Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.Par Roger Kaza

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1161: Roman Water Wheel 3:34

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Episode: 1161 An old Roman mill tells about the acceptance of technology. Today, we try to make sense of an old Roman power plant.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1159: Nevil Shute’s Ordeal 3:32

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Episode: 1159 In which Nevil Shute looks at the ordeal of aerial bombing. Today, Nevil Shute predicts the chilling anonymity of war.Par Mark DiClaudio, Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1158: The Crystal Palace 3:31

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Episode: 1158 The Crystal Palace, the 1851 exhibition, and Victorian art. Today, we look for art to equal the building that holds it.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1157: Marketing Model A 3:35

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Episode: 1157 Merchandising Windows 95 and the Ford Model A. Today, we sell Model A's and Windows 95.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1971: Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer 3:50

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Episode: 1971 In which Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer race to prove Fermat's last theorem. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd relives a race.Par Dr. Andy Boyd

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen 3:37

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Episode: 3029 Model Citizen. Today, lets talk about models.Par Fitz Walker

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green 3:46

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Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.Par Karen Fang

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1156: The Machine as Mirror 3:38

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Episode: 1156 We mirror machine mirrors we mirror machine mirrors we ... Today, an analogy game.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1154: Adam’s Belly Button 3:32

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Episode: 1154 In which Adam's navel poses the question of pre-creation history. Today, a silly question about Adam's navel paves the way for evolution.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1153: Grosseteste and Bacon 3:34

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Episode: 1153 Grosseteste, Bacon, and the rise of realism. Today, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and cyberspace.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1152: Macbeth 3:32

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Episode: 1152 Macbeth, populism, and insanity. Today, Shakespeare tells us how to stay sane.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1961: The Four-Color Problem 3:49

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Episode: 1961 The Four-Color Problem -- an strange old puzzle, almost resolved. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd colors maps.Par Dr. Andy Boyd

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3121: Getting Typhus 3:46

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Episode: 3121 Charles Nicolle and the Transmission of Typhus. Today, we get typhus.Par Richard Willson

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2985: Relative Accuracy 3:49

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Episode: 2985 Relative Accuracy. Today, we'll question the virtue of accuracy.Par Peter Turchi

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1150: Arguing Racism 3:37

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Episode: 1150 Arguing racism: Time for rational, rather than moral, arguments. Today, we analyze racism.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1149: Heat Transfer 3:39

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Episode: 1149 Heat Transfer Conference ("Wherever there's a thermal gradient"). Today, we move energy.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1148: 1846 3:38

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Episode: 1148 1846: Origin of the Smithsonian Institution in a momentous year. Today, let's talk about American expansion, and the Smithsonian Institution.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1147: Points Off 3:32

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Episode: 1147 Points-Off thinking: a damaging force in education and sports. Today, we ask how many points to take off.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1952: Constants of Nature 3:48

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Episode: 1952 The only-possible constants of nature: The only-possible us. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd looks at the grandest machine of all.Par Dr. Andy Boyd

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2944: Max Planck’s Triumphs and Tragedies 3:50

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Episode: 2944 The Father of Quantum Theory, The Perseverance of a Scientist Facing Multiple Tragedies.Par Haleh Ardebili

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3123: Vincent Coleman 3:51

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Episode: 3123 The Halifax 1917 Explosion and Vincent Coleman's Final Goodbye. Today, a final goodbye.Par Chris Miller

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1146: Creating a New Country 3:32

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Episode: 1146 Early Massachusetts: a cultural beachhead, not yet a new country. Today, America leaves its Eastern beaches.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1145: Jacquard and Babbage 3:29

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Episode 1145: Jacquard, Babbage, Hollerith, IBM: from weaving to computers. Today, a story about wool weaving and computers.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1144: Fokker D-VII 3:40

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Episode: 1144 A Fokker D-VII mysteriously lands on an Allied airstrip. Today, the last vestige of fictional war.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1143: Shakespeare and Medicine 3:30

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Episode: 1143 Shakespeare's long-standing fascination with medicine. Today, Shakespeare's fascination with medicine.Par Dr. John Lienhard

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1950: Girolamo Cardano 3:48

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Episode: 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering renaissance thinker. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd shares a story of triumph and tragedy.Par Dr. Andy Boyd