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Aug 2, 2018
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1921: Arrow’s Paradox
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Feb 29, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3014: Measuring Almost Nothing
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1786: Circumstantial Evidence
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1123: Whiplash
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1122: Offshore Rig Disposal
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Feb 25, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1121: Neolithic Farming in Europe
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Feb 24, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3294: Coastlines
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1912: Consciousness
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2193: Dover Beach
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2976: Embracing Puzzles
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Feb 20, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3293: Research and Water
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Feb 19, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1120: Cayley’s Flying Machine
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Feb 18, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1119: An Old Book of Recipes
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Feb 17, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1118: Nuclear Power
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1897: Optimal Routes
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2798: Behold the Mighty Transistor
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3204: Mobility Matters
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1117: History of the Wound
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1116: An Attack on Superhighways
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Feb 11, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1114: Gore’s Metaphor
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Feb 10, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1115: Books of the Century
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1859: Hal, the Computer
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2279: Babies in Sideshows
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3112: Creative Editor
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Feb 06, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1113: How Can I Tell You About Math?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1112: On Being Human
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1111: The Numbers 1 Thru 10
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Feb 03, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1110: Origami
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1818: Leon Theramin
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2957: The Power of Cities
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2999: Hannibal’s Grand Strategy
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Jan 30, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1108: 100 Million Land Mines
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1107: Engineering Education
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Jan 28, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1105: Mary Roberts
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Jan 27, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1104: Von Suttner and Nobel
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Jan 26, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1748: Multiples of Nine
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2846: Coffee Houses
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2960: Herculaneum
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Jan 23, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1103: How We Die
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1101: Paconius’s Folly
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Jan 21, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1098: Who Invented the Telephone?
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Jan 20, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1097: Acceptable Risk
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Jan 19, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1716: Bounding Billies
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Jan 18, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3090: Friedrich Richard Petri
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2888: Strength Through Joy Car
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1096: Inventing the Organ
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1095: The Lesion Within
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Jan 14, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1622: Fingerprints
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Jan 13, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2855: Gregorian Chant
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Jan 11, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1094: Mesa Verde
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2822: Herodotus
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Jan 09, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2364: The Longest Year in History
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2566: Champagne
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Jan 07, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3285: Epiphanies
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Jan 06, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2446: Limits of Logic
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Jan 05, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2445: What Made Robert Norton Go?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2669: Christmas Greenery
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Jan 03, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1760: The Christmas Lectures
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Jan 02, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1671: Other Selves-Other Christmases
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Jan 01, 2024 |
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2039: Quiet on the Western Front
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Dec 31, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1093: Under Pressure
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Dec 30, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1092: Rocket Belt
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Dec 29, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2970: The Ever Changing train
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Dec 28, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2927: Dual Inheritance Theory
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Dec 27, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2780: Mail Plane to History Maker
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Dec 26, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1091: Balloon Bombs
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Dec 25, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1090: Poe’s Conchology
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Dec 24, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1089: At the Art Museum
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Dec 23, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1088: Housework
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Dec 22, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2968: Riblet Tramways
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2901: Cybernetics
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2881: Racial Mythologies: Günther vs Huxley
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Dec 19, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1087: Aluminum
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Dec 18, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1086: An Obsession with Obsidian
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Dec 17, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1085: The First American Steam Engine
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Dec 16, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1084: The First Steamboat
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Dec 15, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2966: Muffler
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3238: Whitewashing
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Dec 13, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2836: Bumping Into Signs
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1083: Lallement’s Bicycle
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1082: Cuneiform and Turbines
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Dec 10, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1081: Paradox
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Dec 09, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1079: Thinking in Pictures
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Dec 08, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2962: Letters to Mount Wilson
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3046: Billion Years of Storage
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2641: Ghosts of Niagara
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1078: Declaration of Independence
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Dec 04, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1080: Food in Early texas
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Dec 03, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1077: Coffin Wharf
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Dec 02, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1075: Tobacco
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Dec 01, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2956: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs
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Nov 30, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2885: Big Numbers
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2645: Arch
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1074: Imhotep
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1072: Probability
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Nov 26, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1071: A Gift of Turtle Eggs
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Nov 25, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3292: An Old Ruler
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Nov 24, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2953: Chairlift
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Nov 23, 2023 |
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3291: Osler’s Literary Vibration
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Nov 21, 2023 |