Engines Of Our Ingenuity

Engines Of Our Ingenuity, an ongoing technology series from NPR and the University of Houston is now available via podcast.  Recent shows (short four minute topics) have included:

• A Big Volcano - Mount Toba: the worst volcano and the worst human catastrophe.
• Ahead of it's Time - Getting ready to invent the airplane in 1901.
  (and)
• Flubber -  The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

Here are the Engines Of Our Ingenuity web links: Web site | RSS feeds

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[Harry Meissner]

I refer to Andrew Boyd's episode of 10/30/09.
King Frederick could hardly be accused ot religious tolerance - the Jewish population had to pay special fees, taxes, and was only allowed to enter Berlin through one place, Rosental gate, one of many.
A philosopher of the Prussian enlightenment (Moses Mendelssohn) was nominated to the Prussian Academy, but was blackballed by the king. I would not call that religious tolerance.