Engines of Our Ingenuity show

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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 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1097: Acceptable Risk | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:30

Episode: 1097 A surprising answer to the question, "How much risk is really acceptable to us?"  Today, let's look at the idea of risk homeostasis.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1716: Bounding Billies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:41

Episode: 1716 Bounding Billies: The century-long reign of the wound-rubber golf ball.  Today, our guest, operations researcher Andrew Boyd, tells about the simplest of toys, the golf ball.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 3090: Friedrich Richard Petri | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:38

Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri.  Today, drawing the frontier.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2888: Strength Through Joy Car | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2888 The Strength Through Joy Car: Hitler's Volkswagen and American Consumer Culture.  Today, the "strength through joy" car.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1096: Inventing the Organ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:35

Episode: 1096 Ktesibios invention of the pipe organ in the 3rd century BC.  Today, the invention of the pipe organ.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1095: The Lesion Within | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:34

Episode: 1095 The lesion within: Medicine learns look inside the human body.  Today, we try to locate the seat of disease.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1622: Fingerprints | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:43

Episode: 1622 Fingerprints, crime detection, and identification.  Today, I ask, "Who are you?"

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:45

Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial.  Today, we visit a really big statue.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2855: Gregorian Chant | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:55

Episode: 2855 Plainchant, Gregorian Chant, and Today's Music.  Today, plain and simple.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1094: Mesa Verde | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:39

Episode: 1094 Mesa Verde: Another civilization abandonded at its peak.  Today, we ask about permanence in a civilization.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2822: Herodotus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories.  Today, we visit Herodotus.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2364: The Longest Year in History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2364 46 BC: In which Julius Caesar creates the longest year.  Today, UH scholar Richard Armstrong tells us about the longest year in history.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2566: Champagne | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses.  Today, we pop the cork.

 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3285: Epiphanies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:52

Episode: 3285 Literature's Famous Epiphanies: Real and Fictional.  Today, one of literature's famous epiphanies.

 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2446: Limits of Logic | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

Episode: 2446 Gödel, Ginsberg, and the limits of logic.  Today, the limits of logic.

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