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.
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- Artist: Dr. John Lienhard
- Copyright: Copyright 2011 KUHF
Podcasts:
Episode: 2288 William Faulkner and the Handley Page bomber at the movies
Episode: 2287 The ceremony of innocence is drowned: Fritz Haber swallowed by wars
Episode: 2286 Ponzi and pyramid schemes: How we love to throw our money away!
Episode: 2932 Monopoly games for POWs and the creation of myths
Episode: 2931 G. H. Hardy, mentor and apologist
Episode: 2285 In which Fiat bulds the last great combat biplanes
Episode: 2283 An anachronistic old book links shoe polish and lubrication
Episode: 2282 In which the Gokstad Viking ship tells its story
Episode: 2930 Overhanging Books
Episode: 2929 The treacherous Goodwin Sands give up the last Dornier-17
Episode: 2281 Lindbergh, Nungesser, and the stories woven about them
Episode: 2280 In which Hiroo Onoda and Shoichi Yokoi cannot figure out that the war has ended
Episode: 2279 In which medical people learn how to save babies on the boardwalk
Episode: 2928 When 1 = 1/2 = 0
Episode: 2927 Dual Inheritance Theory: How our Genes and our Culture are co-evolving
