on the cast · 1815–1852
Ada Lovelace
Ninety years ahead, politely
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precise, excitable, Victorian English
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full episodes featuring Ada Lovelace
27 episodes- play →Einstein × LovelaceThe physicist who befriended Gödel meets the mathematician who saw limits in the Analytical Engine.TITANSwith Albert Einstein8 min
- play →Lovelace × Douglass: The Last Supper Before the StormTwo minds who changed history compare notes on fortifying the body before breaking the world.TITANSwith Frederick Douglass9 min
- play →Lovelace × Moses: The Unbelieving PrayerWhen doubt meets devotion, can ritual still reach truth?STUDY HALLwith Moses9 min
- play →Einstein × Lovelace: The Certainty ProblemWhen encryption breaks, two minds from different centuries ask what security ever meant in the first place.TITANSwith Albert Einstein7 min
- play →Einstein × Lovelace: Light from the Infant UniverseA Victorian mathematician and a patent clerk discuss gravity bending starlight to reveal the universe's childhood—and what first light can't tell us.TITANSwith Albert Einstein6 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Unknowable LockWhen a graduate student weaponizes mathematical impossibility, two minds separated by a century find themselves thrillingly out of their depth.TITANSwith Richard Feynman9 min
- play →Lovelace × Lincoln: Mortality's First KnockA mathematician who counted days and a president who counted costs discover the moment everything changed.TITANSwith Abraham Lincoln12 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: Famous for the Wrong ReasonTwo minds separated by a century discover they share an unusual burden: the world remembers them for things they never quite said.STUDY HALLwith Richard Feynman8 min
- play →Lovelace × Aurelius: What We Got WrongThe programmer and the philosopher excavate the beliefs they had to bury.STUDY HALLwith Marcus Aurelius8 min
- play →Lovelace × Huxley: Designer ChildrenThe mathematician who saw machines thinking meets the novelist who saw babies manufactured—and both find their prophecies arriving by courier.TITANSwith Aldous Huxley6 min
- play →Lovelace × Orwell: The Machine That StealsWhen algorithms digest books without asking, who owns the engine's mind?TITANSwith George Orwell8 min
- play →Lovelace × Curie: On Being Remembered WrongTwo women who changed science confront the versions of themselves that history insists on keeping.STUDY HALLwith Marie Curie8 min
- play →Lovelace × Curie: The Rival Who Was RightTwo women who rewrote their fields admit what they learned from the ones they tried hardest to prove wrong.STUDY HALLwith Marie Curie9 min
- play →Lovelace × da VinciThe mathematician and the naturalist discover that chloroplasts have been doing geometry all along.TITANSwith Leonardo da Vinci8 min
- play →Orwell × Lovelace: The Tyranny of Efficient SchedulingWhen the algorithm knows your shift before you do—and why that's exactly the point.TITANSwith George Orwell8 min
- play →Tesla × LovelaceTwo inventors confess: the pupils who forced them to see what they'd missed.STUDY HALLwith Nikola Tesla10 min
- play →da Vinci × LovelaceThe artist-engineer and the mathematician meet half a billion years of buried life—and ask what patterns hide in stone.TITANSwith Leonardo da Vinci14 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Alphabet of LifeWhen experimenters rewrite biology's instruction set, a Victorian mathematician and a quantum physicist discover what it means to edit existence itself.TITANSwith Richard Feynman7 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Genome DecodedA Victorian mathematician and a Brooklyn physicist marvel at the instruction manual for humanity—and mourn the man who cracked it open.TITANSwith Richard Feynman7 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Useful FiniteVictorian calculation meets Brooklyn physics on whether throwing away infinity might sharpen the blade.TITANSwith Richard Feynman6 min
- play →Curie × Lovelace: What We Cannot HoldTwo minds built for certainty reckon with love that defied their calculations.STUDY HALLwith Marie Curie10 min
- play →Lovelace × Tesla: The Servants We BuildTwo architects of automation confront humanoid luggage handlers—and ask what happens when machines wear our shape.TITANSwith Nikola Tesla8 min
- play →Lovelace × Curie: InheritanceTwo women who rewrote science discuss the pupils who eclipsed them—and why that was the whole point.STUDY HALLwith Marie Curie10 min
- play →Curie × LovelaceTwo pioneers debate whether teaching means preparing to be eclipsed—or ensuring you never are.TITANSwith Marie Curie12 min
- play →Orwell × Lovelace: The Student QuestionTwo minds who taught the future ask what happens when the pupil doesn't need you anymore.TITANSwith George Orwell11 min
- play →Bonaparte × LovelaceThe Emperor who never stopped fighting meets the mathematician who saw machines think—on the enemies who made them better.TITANSwith Napoleon Bonaparte11 min
- play →Baldwin × LovelaceA writer and a mathematician discover what it means when your student sees further than you did.TITANSwith James Baldwin10 min
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