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: 2672 Self replicating machines. Today, remaking yourself.
Episode: 3260 Lysenko: How power corrupts science. Today, a sad wedding of science and politics.
Episode: 2086 George Henry Lewes, Victorian "man of letters." Today, a man of letters.
Episode: 3259 Conceding error -- a treason to yield. Today, we resist reason.
Episode: 2668 Learning about quilting at the Houston International Quilt Festival. Today, a stitch in time.
Episode: 2831 Reading the Long History of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Today, a great American magazine.
Episode: 2665 Intellectual vigilance: when obvious isn't obvious. Today, the people on the bus.
Episode: 3258 In which a Nazi is named Righteous Among the Nations. Today, righteousness in a strange place.
Episode: 2085 The Eruption of Thera: a terrible volcano redirects history. Today, a natural disaster alters history.
Episode: 2083 Trouble in the history books: Revisiting the Orukter Amphibolus. Today, trouble in the history books.
Episode: 2663 Horatio Alger. Today, a Horatio Alger story.
Episode: 3065 Victor and Eva Saxl: Love, War and Homemade Insulin. Today, love, war and insulin.
Episode: 2660 Computers, Brains, and the Church-Turing Thesis. Today, inside the machine.
Episode: 2082 Date Nails: a historical record left in the wood. Today, we nail down dates.
Episode: 2084 Bush pilots: Opening up remote corners of the world. Today, bush pilots.
