Engines of Our Ingenuity
Summary: The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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Podcasts:
Episode: 3091 Soil Spectroscopy in Africa. Today, we see the light.
Episode: 1249 Bricks. Today, let's talk about bricks.
Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri. Today, drawing the frontier.
Episode: 1248 Hester Stanhope creates her own British Empire in Syria. Today, a prime minister's niece doesn't get the message.
Episode: 1247 America's first women architects: three very different people. Today, a story about three very different women.
Episode: 2517 Rebecca Clarke: Violist, Composer, Woman. Today, a woman in conflict.
Episode: 1246 Figuring out what the word momentum means. Today, let's talk about momentum.
Episode: 2513 The Importance of Teachers in Shaping our Lives. Today, remembering our teachers.
Episode: 1245 In which Sarah Bagely opens the field of telegraphy to women. Today, a woman claims a job market for other women.
Episode: 1244 Is fun rightly under assault in science education? Today, we ask whether or not science should be fun.
Episode: 3089 Steve Sasson and the Digital Camera. Today, the image of things that came.
Episode: 1243 In which we are surprised by the power of five-fold symmetry. Today, let's think about fives.
Episode 2510: Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.
Episode: 1241 The search for Franklin and the search for the Northwest Passage. Today, we go looking for a lost explorer.
Episode: 1239 Ensemble theory offers us insight through parallel universes