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Curious Minds Podcast

Curious Minds Podcast


Curious Minds Podcast

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Length:
31 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Curious Minds – A podcast about Science, Technology and History.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 31 episodes

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The Awful and Wonderful History of the Mir Space Station | Curious Minds Podcast

The Mir Space Station was a true Soviet engineering wonder, an achievement comparable w...

45 minutes
Sep 02, 2017

The Lost Manuscript of Archimedes | Curious Minds Podcast

Archimedes is famous for being Ancient Greece's greatest engineer. Yet a random discove...

33 minutes
Jul 27, 2017

The Dark Avenger [From: Malicious.Life] | Curious Minds Podcast

In 1989, a message was found in a virus: "Eddie Lives…Somewhere in Time!". 'Eddie' was ...

33 minutes
Jun 29, 2017

Are Software Bugs Inevitable? Part 2: The Most Expensive Failed Software Project Ever | Curious Minds Podcast

After describing the Software Crisis in the previous episode, we discuss the various me...

25 minutes
Feb 04, 2017

Are Software Bugs Inevitable? Part 1: FORTRAN and the Denver Airport Baggage Disaster | Curious Minds Podcast

Software errors and random bugs are rather common: We’ve all seen the infamous Windows ...

27 minutes
Jan 23, 2017

Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense (SDI) Initiative, AKA – “Star Wars” | Curious Minds Podcast

In 1983, president Ronald Reagan shocked the world when he announced that the United St...

26 minutes
Dec 18, 2016

The History of File Sharing, Part 2: Grokster & BitTorrent | Curious Minds Podcast

The fall of Napster (see Part I of this series) has left a vacuum in the world of file ...

38 minutes
Nov 16, 2016

The History of File Sharing, Part 1 (of 2): The Rise & Fall of Napster | Curious Minds Podcast

Napster, a revolutionary Peer-to-Peer file sharing software, was launched in 1999 - and...

39 minutes
Nov 02, 2016

Heroes Of Podcasting #5: Aaron Mahnke, Lore Podcast | Curious Minds Podcast

Heroes of Podcasting: An interview with Aaron Mahnke about the role of storytelling in ...

24 minutes
Oct 04, 2016

Heroes Of Podcasting #3: Leo Laporte, This Week In Tech | Curious Minds Podcast

Leo Laporte is one of the very first podcasters.In 2005 Leo left - or almost left - tra...

52 minutes
Aug 28, 2016