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: 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.
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.
Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri. Today, drawing the frontier.
Episode: 2888 The Strength Through Joy Car: Hitler's Volkswagen and American Consumer Culture. Today, the "strength through joy" car.
Episode: 1096 Ktesibios invention of the pipe organ in the 3rd century BC. Today, the invention of the pipe organ.
Episode: 1095 The lesion within: Medicine learns look inside the human body. Today, we try to locate the seat of disease.
Episode: 1622 Fingerprints, crime detection, and identification. Today, I ask, "Who are you?"
Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial. Today, we visit a really big statue.
Episode: 2855 Plainchant, Gregorian Chant, and Today's Music. Today, plain and simple.
Episode: 1094 Mesa Verde: Another civilization abandonded at its peak. Today, we ask about permanence in a civilization.
Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories. Today, we visit Herodotus.
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.
Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.
Episode: 3285 Literature's Famous Epiphanies: Real and Fictional. Today, one of literature's famous epiphanies.
Episode: 2446 Gödel, Ginsberg, and the limits of logic. Today, the limits of logic.