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Episode: 1214 Medieval Novgorod, more advanced than we realized. Today, an old city coughs up a surprising secret.
Episode: 1213 Experiment, theory, and the role of the computer. Today, the old question about theory and experiment comes back to haunt us.
Episode: 2284 Books by the foot: the ultimate reductio ad absurdum. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd finds a new use for books.
Episode: 2869 James Watt's introduction of horsepower as a measurement unit. Today, the power of horses.
Episode: 3050 Space Travel. Today, the mathematics of space travel.
Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.
Episode: 1211 Theodore Roosevelt and the mad Marquis create Medora ND. Today, we visit Medora, North Dakota.
Episode: 1210 In which Louis Pasteur puts medicine on a war footing. Today, the language of war attaches itself to medicine.
Episode: 1209 Early fliers -- all seem to've been good-looking and literate. Today, we write about flight.
Episode: 2237 Modeling the atom: Making quantum uncertainty reveal corporeal solidity. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd models the atom.
Episode: 3044 Randomized Clinical Trials. Today, statistics, evidence and medicine.
Episode: 3299 Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky and the future of technology. Today, Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky and the future of computation.
Episode: 1208 The first transcontinental railroad -- and no golden spike! Today, we build the first transcontinental railroad.
Episode: 1207 In which a balustrade shows us that laws were made to be broken. Today, we see how laws were made to be broken.
Episode: 1206 Harriet Beecher Stowe: "No talent, only genius." Today, a woman turns slavery from theoretical wrong into personal evil.
Episode: 1205 Henry Chapman Mercer: An aristocrat redirects anthropology. Today, a shy aristocrat redirects anthropology.
Episode: 2234 Spherical horses and frictionless wheels -- When are we close enough to reality? Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks, "What makes a good Model?"
Episode: 2858 Hearing Pictures: Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Today, hearing pictures.
Episode: 2722 Gathering of Materials and Methods to Craft Sailing and Space-faring Vessels. Today, voyaging at the edge of technology.
Episode: 1204 Baron von Humboldt's remarkable exploration of Meso-America. Today, a nearly forgotten hero.
Episode: 1200 London's secret museums. Today, we visit London's secret museums.
Episode: 1199 Gallup Poll: spawn of intellect with some saving imperfection. Today, we try to foretell how you plan to vote.
Episode: 1198 In which Virgil visits a theme park and writes the Aeneid. Today, we pass through the Gates of Hell.
Episode: 2150 Scotty on Starship Enterprise: an image of an engineer. Today, we beam up with guest scientist Andrew Boyd.
Episode: 3054 Electioneering in Ancient Rome: the Commentariolum Petitionis Attributed to Cicero's Brother. Today, how to get elected in ancient Rome.
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