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: 2647 The Give and Take of Internet Shopping. Today, getting to know you.
Episode: 2070 The Belville family: Selling time for 103 years. Today, Ruth Belville tells us the time.
Episode: 2071 Parker's and Plympton's Philosophy: retaining what is good across and intellectual chasm. Today, a book straddles an intellectual divide.
Episode: 2069 Alexander Bain: so many ideas before their time. Today, invention at the wrong time.
Episode: 2646 J. B. S. Haldane's "On Being the Right Size." Today, on being the right size.
Episode: 2754 Culturomics. Today, let’s talk about how to model culture.
Episode: 2829 Cesare Lombroso and his Museum. Today, a head in a jar.
Episode: 3256 Insect chemical communication makes efficient delivery routes. Today, the invisible language of insects.
Episode: 2068 The Westland Lysander: Of Pandas and Airplanes. Today, pandas and airplanes.
Episode: 2067 Sharkskins and Fast Efficient Ships. Today, we touch a shark.
Episode: 2066 The Olympic and the Titanic on the day that ships grew too larger. Today, the other Titanics.
Episode: 2644 Camping and Creature Comforts. Today, taking it with you.
Episode: 2549 Cahokia, an Ancient American Metropolis. Today, an ancient American metropolis.
Episode: 2643 P ≠ NP (or is it?): an important problem in complexity theory. Today, an educated guess.
Episode: 3255 Engineering campuses and real-world technological change. Today, a lesson from an engineering campus.
