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: 2676 In which soaring birds teach us about airplanes, and vice versa. Today, soaring birds.
Episode: 2673 Contrast: Population density above and below 20 people per square mile. Today, twenty people per square mile.
Episode: 2671 Why do our automobile (or airplane or motorcycle, or ship) engines have so many cylinders? Today, how many cylinders?
Episode: 2667 Hilda Hewlett: Pioneer pilot from a different mold. Today, Hilda Hewlett -- not a young daredevil.
Episode: 2914 Charles Loring Brace and the Orphan Trains Movement. Today, for the love of children.
Episode: 2978 Henri Matisse cuts paper to design a cover for the art magazine Verve. Today we look at heroism through cut paper.
Episode: 2670 The Expanded Human Habitat: Our Solar System as a Defining Environment. Today, we expand the notion of environment.
Episode: 2664 Mind-wandering and the search for happiness. Today, wandering minds.
Episode: 2662 Lucretius gives us modern atomic theory — 1900 years too soon. Today, Roman atoms.
Episode: 2661 A view of where we have come, from an airplane window. Today, then and now from an airplane window.
Episode: 2656 An American in Paris: Eugene Bullard, Black hero in the jazz age. Today, an American in Paris.
Episode: 2913 The price of making a commercial airline seat. Today, airline seat prices.
Episode: 2488 Revision: An Essential Component of the Creative Process. Today, creator vs. revisor.
Episode: 3230 How close-ups offer social and psychological benefits that selfies do not. Today, psychology of the close-up.
Episode: 2650 RRS Discovery: 1901 research vessel whose legacy lives today. Today, the RRS Discovery.
