Engines of Our Ingenuity 2851: Unplanned Obsolescence
Episode: 2851 The Lake Breeze Fan: Unplanned Obsolescence. Today, invention and obsolescence.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1090: Poe’s Conchology
enDecember 24, 2023
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Episode: 1090 In which Edgar Allen Poe writes about conchology. Today, an act of plagiarism is not quite what it seems to be.
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