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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2614: Pixels 09.07.2026 ↓

Episode: 2614 Engineering Pictures Made of Pixels. Today, painting with pixels.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2611: Kepler’s Somnium 02.07.2026 ↓

Episode: 2611 Early science fiction: Kepler’s Somnium. Today, a dream.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2608: Maria Telkes 25.06.2026 ↓

Episode: 2608 Maria Telkes: Solar Energy Pioneer. Today, here comes the sun.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2606 More Beautiful Books 18.06.2026 ↓

Episode: 2606 More Beautiful Books: revisiting books by the foot. Today, the measure of a book.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2603: Correlation 11.06.2026 ↓

Episode: 2603 Correlation and Risk: When more egg baskets don’t help. Today, eggs and baskets.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2599: Strange Attractors and Imagery 04.06.2026 ↓

Episode: 2599 The Art of Attraction: Imagery from Strange Attractors. Today, the art of attraction.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2598: The Three Body Problem 28.05.2026 ↓

Episode: 2598 Henri Poincaré, the three body problem, and chaos. Today, three bodies.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2596: Golf Club Grooves 21.05.2026 ↓

Episode: 2596 Golf Club Grooves: How small changes in technology can cause controversy. Today’s episode is brought to you by the letters U and V.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia 14.05.2026 ↓

Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy’s Geographia. Today, a man and a map.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2591: Instant Runoff Voting 07.05.2026 ↓

Episode: 2591 Instant runoff voting and the Academy Awards. Today, what’s best?

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2588: Synthetic Sound Waves 30.04.2026 ↓

Episode: 2588 Synthetic Sound Waves. Today, the sound of music.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2585: Measuring Race Times 23.04.2026 ↓

Episode: 2585 The technology of timing races. Today, who won that race?

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2942: Hilton Hotels in Space 22.04.2026 ↓

Episode: 2942 Hilton Hotels in Space. Today, we reach for the stars.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2583: Children and Their Goals 16.04.2026 ↓

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

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2578: Water Towers 09.04.2026 ↓

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

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2576: Screw Caps for Wine 02.04.2026 ↓

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

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2575: Prime Numbers 26.03.2026 ↓

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

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2572: Melville and Anna Bissell 19.03.2026 ↓

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

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2570: Celebrating Human Ingenuity 12.03.2026 ↓

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

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2563: Isaac Asimov 05.03.2026 ↓

Episode: 2563 The Prolific Isaac Asimov. Today, science or fiction?

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2562: Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics 26.02.2026 ↓

Episode: 2562 Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics. Today, a book that helped educate the world.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2559: Going, Going, Gone! 19.02.2026 ↓

Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2556: Hilbert and Euclid’s Elements 12.02.2026 ↓

Episode: 2556 Euclid’s Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2555: Google Books 05.02.2026 ↓

Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2554: Slogans and Jingles 29.01.2026 ↓

Episode: 2554 The Creativity of Slogans and Jingles. Today, “think different.”