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: 2651 American Women’s Suffrage and Alice Paul. Today, we march.
Episode: 3140 A look at how the temperature varies underground. Today, the temperature beneath our feet.
Episode: The Give and Take of Internet Shopping. Today, getting to know you.
Episode: 1398 Back to the Beginning: First we commit. Then we see. Today, a process within a process.
Episode: 1396 An engineer named Calder. Today, an engineer takes up sculpture.
Episode: 2646 J. B. S. Haldane's "On Being the Right Size." Today, on being the right size.
Episode: 1395 The World's Worst Aircraft: learning what constitutes bad. Today, the worst airplanes ever built!
Episode: 3139 Maryam Mirzakhani: A life in Mathematics. Today, let's talk about the Iranian-American mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani.
Episode: Early inventions of the electric telegraph. Today, we look at ninety years of electric telegraphy before Morse.
Episode: 1392 The nature of fog and of redwood trees. Today, fog in the forest.
Episode: 2643 P ≠ NP (or is it?): an important problem in complexity theory. Today, an educated guess.
Episode: 1391 The Johnstown Flood. They didn't see it coming. Today, a dam breaks.
Episode: 2640 Joy and Tragedy in the Life of the Singing Nun. Today, joy and tragedy.
Episode: 1390 Crossing the English Channel, by water, air, and tunnel. Today, we try to cross the English Channel.
Episode: 1389 The supply of wood: trouble along the Equator, good news to the North. Today, some good news and some bad.
