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Episode: 1146 Early Massachusetts: a cultural beachhead, not yet a new country. Today, America leaves its Eastern beaches.
Episode 1145: Jacquard, Babbage, Hollerith, IBM: from weaving to computers. Today, a story about wool weaving and computers.
Episode: 1144 A Fokker D-VII mysteriously lands on an Allied airstrip. Today, the last vestige of fictional war.
Episode: 1143 Shakespeare's long-standing fascination with medicine. Today, Shakespeare's fascination with medicine.
Episode: 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering renaissance thinker. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd shares a story of triumph and tragedy.
Episode: 2714 Hub Motors, aka In-Wheel Motors and their applications in electric vehicles. Today, re-inventing...wheels.
Episode: 3296 Icons of Hong Kong: Neon Signs, and Local Cinema. Today, we hope the lights never go out in Hong Kong.
Episode: 1142 The accumulation of empirical data in the legends of flight. Today, old stories turn from legend into experimental development.
Episode: 1140 Tents: a very old and very modern architecture. Today, a new architecture -- the tent!
Episode: 1139 The Wounded Story Teller recovers from illness. Today, we tell the story of an illness.
Episode: 1138 Texas City, Roseburg, World Trade Center, Oklahoma City: a story of fertilizer and cigarettes. Today's story is about cigarettes and fertilizer.
Episode: 1948 Sex, Love and Lobster Shells. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks where lobsters come from.
Episode: 2977 Thomas Jefferson, the Maison Carrée of Nîmes, and the Virginia State Capitol. Today, Thomas Jefferson in love.
Episode: 3016 Simpson's Paradox. Today, paradoxical averages.
Episode: 1137 America goes to the first modern Olympic Games. Today, amateur America goes to its first Olympic Games.
Episode: 1135 Trying to hold a river that doesn't want to be held. Today, the Mississippi writes a parable about going with the flow.
Episode: 1134 Linear A and Linear B: Decoding the old Minoan scripts. Today, we struggle to read what our ancestors are saying to us.
Episode: 1133 Of Lucille Treganowan and automobile transmission repair. Today, let's meet an unexpected auto mechanic.
Episode: 1929 Wendy Carlos and -- new technology, new music. Today, guest scientist Andy Boyd makes music.
Episode: 2998 Test Tube Evolution. Today, evolution in a test tube.
Episode: 2851 The Lake Breeze Fan: Unplanned Obsolescence. Today, invention and obsolescence.
Episode: 1132 In which balloons deliver the mail during the Siege of Paris. Today, the very first airmail service is used to break a siege.
Episode: 1131 John Hunter: idiosyncratic medical pioneer. Today, the history of medicine provides a strange hero.
Episode: 1129 In which Alphonse Penaud invents the model airplane. Today, a very young man teaches us to fly, after all.
Episode: 1128 Of whales and elephants: a remarkable convergence of attributes. Today, we find that whales and elephants have more in common than just size.
Episode: 1926 Rhetoric: An ancient idea in serious need of rehabilitation. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd persuades us.
Episode: 2654 Recumbent bicycles and the One Hour record. Today, variations on a bicycle.
Episode: 3295 The Age of Non-Carbon Species; The Age of Artificial Intelligence. Today, the age of silicon-based species.
Episode: 1127 Why Germany didn't make an atomic bomb during WW-II? Today, we ask about Germany and the atom bomb in WW-II.
Episode: 1126 An academic hoax: When we let our words get too complicated. Today, a disturbing parable about clarity and falsehood.
