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: 2902 ELIZA: Artificial Psychotherapist. Today, mindless conversation.
Episode: 2882 Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew. Today, the revival of an ancient language.
Episode: 3040 Leonardo and Borelli. Today, two hemispheres come together.
Episode: 2584 The Sweet Track: A 6000-year-old roadway. Today, a 6000-year-old roadway.
Episode: 2581 How animals see: monocular and binocular sight, and more. Today, we see with two eyes.
Episode: 2580 A movie in Esperanto: William Shatner stars in Incubus. Today, a movie in Esperanto.
Episode: 2509 Human-Powered Machines — bringing the question of human endurance back to technology. Today, human and machine endurance.
Episode: 2506 Spanish Moss — not at all the stuff of antebellum decay. Today, a remarkable stuffing.
Episode: 2504 The most decorated woman in France: Marie Marvingt. Today, a remarkable woman.
Episode: 2883 A dead salmon points the way to better brain imaging. Today, outrageous research.
Episode: 2439 Reflections on Hurricane Ike and the effect of satellite technology on the hurricane experience. Today, picturing monsters.
Episode: 2249 Mrs. Coade's remarkable stones. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells about a woman who made artificial stone.
Episode: 2498 The Ju-87 Stuka, another troubling story of military technology. Today, a troubled machine.
Episode: 2496 Trilobites: Wondrous window upon the processes of evolution. Today, the evolution of the trilobite.
Episode: 2494 Inventing the cotton gin: More to it than we thought. Today, we gin cotton.
