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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.
Episode: 3029 Model Citizen. Today, lets talk about models.
Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
Episode: 1156 We mirror machine mirrors we mirror machine mirrors we ... Today, an analogy game.
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.
Episode: 1153 Grosseteste, Bacon, and the rise of realism. Today, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and cyberspace.
Episode: 1152 Macbeth, populism, and insanity. Today, Shakespeare tells us how to stay sane.
Episode: 1961 The Four-Color Problem -- an strange old puzzle, almost resolved. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd colors maps.
Episode: 3121 Charles Nicolle and the Transmission of Typhus. Today, we get typhus.
Episode: 2985 Relative Accuracy. Today, we'll question the virtue of accuracy.
Episode: 1150 Arguing racism: Time for rational, rather than moral, arguments. Today, we analyze racism.
Episode: 1149 Heat Transfer Conference ("Wherever there's a thermal gradient"). Today, we move energy.
Episode: 1148 1846: Origin of the Smithsonian Institution in a momentous year. Today, let's talk about American expansion, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Episode: 1147 Points-Off thinking: a damaging force in education and sports. Today, we ask how many points to take off.
Episode: 1952 The only-possible constants of nature: The only-possible us. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd looks at the grandest machine of all.
Episode: 2944 The Father of Quantum Theory, The Perseverance of a Scientist Facing Multiple Tragedies.
Episode: 3123 The Halifax 1917 Explosion and Vincent Coleman's Final Goodbye. Today, a final goodbye.
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.
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