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: 2080 China: A case history in the survival/nonsurvival of invention. Today, we ask why only some inventions survive.
Episode: 2659 The influence of role models in shaping creative minds. Today, possibilities.
Episode: 2884 Communicating Through Pictures: The Japanese Language. Today, the images of Kanji.
Episode: 2657 Pierre de Montmort, derangements, and the number e. Today, derangements.
Episode: 2079 A lost locomotive, The America. Today, a lost locomotive.
Episode: 2072 Exponential growth: trying to square the metaphor with the math. Today, a national anthem has come and gone.
Episode: 2078 Today, why does sound have a speed?
Episode: 2652 Descartes, the Scientist. Today, an extended postscript.
Episode: 2621 Giovanni Gabrieli and the Venetian School of Polychoral music at St. Mark's Basilica, Venice. Today, a marriage of sound and space.
Episode: 3257 The Discovery of Red Dye from Insects. Today, the mystery of red dye.
Episode: 2077 Last Words: What do we say before we die? Today, the last word.
Episode: 2076 Exponential growth: trying to square the metaphor with the math. Today, exponential growth.
Episode: 2074 Isabella Bird, A remarkable powerhouse of the 19th-century travel literature. Today, a Victorian lady takes a trip.
Episode: 2651 American Women's Suffrage and Alice Paul. Today, we march.
Episode: 2829 Cesare Lombroso and his Museum. Today, a head in a jar.
