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Episode: 2627 Clash of the Titans: The Bohr-Einstein Debates. Today, a clash of titans.
Episode: 3396 How we live with two competing vocabularies – technical and commonplace. Today, treacherous words.
Episode: 3395 Century Magazine reveals how scientists were viewing the new X-Rays in the year after their discovery. Today, X-Rays one year old.
Episode: 3394 An old book of WW-I aeroplanes reveals something about technological change in wartime. Today, an old book with an unintended message.
Episode: 1611 Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather: ideologies diverge and converge. Today, Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather.
Episode: 1610 Thoughts on the nature and purpose of experiments. Today, we wonder why people do experiments.
Episode: 1609 Benjamin Franklin's experiments in thermal radiation. Today, Benjamin Franklin thinks about theoretical and applied science.
Episode: 2623 Thomas Carlyle and the Working of Free Markets. Today, economic salvation.
Episode: 3393 In which the 1928 Curtiss Robin airplane was far more than it seemed to be. Today, a ride in a bland airplane.
Episode: 3392 The Rise of Orientalism and its crescendo in the Roaring ‘20s. Today, strange happenings in the 1920s.
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