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: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.
Episode: 2864 The theorem of Reverend Bayes. Today, let’s talk about uncertainty and an 18th century Presbyterian minister.
Episode: 2157 The web-fed press and the limits of useful production output. Today, speed outruns us.
Episode: 2156 Earth without people: What would it be without us? Today, What would happen if we were gone.
Episode: 2155 From Jamestown 'til now: the glass bottle in America. Today, America makes bottles.
Episode: 2735 The challenge of technical communication. Today, bringing ideas to life.
Episode: 3095 Making a Revolution. Today, the Maker revolution.
Episode: 3048 Juba II. Today, a scholar king of Africa.
Episode: 2154 Wieliczka Sol, Poland's "Great Salt Treasure." Today, we take more than salt from a mine.
Episode: 2153 Of cliques and connections: graph theory, society and surveillance. Today, social cohesion, graph theory, and surveillance.
Episode: 2151 Earth Abides: Thinking about Apocalypses and lesser ills. Today, Earth Abides.
Episode: 2733 American culture and the inscriptions on U.S. Coins. Today, money.
Episode: 2714 Hub Motors, aka In-Wheel Motors and their applications in electric vehicles. Today, re-inventing...wheels.
Episode: 2148 The selling of phrenology -- and other would-be sciences. Today, an old book offers a parable of our times.
Episode: 2149 Electrical words and a vision of the future. Today, a new language for a new technology.
