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: 1752 The theater gives us a diagnostic tool for art and life. Today, our guest, Seattle actor Megan Cole, talks about an acting technique that has surprising uses.
Episode: 3074 John and Charles Deere. Today, we see green.
Episode: 1341 A view of physiology in 1872 -- not that long ago. Today, let's look at medicine when my grandfather was young.
Episode: 1939 Simplicity on the other side of complexity: The standard deviation. Today, complex simplicity.
Episode: 1937 The Great, and deadly, After-the-Fact, Flying-to-Hawaii, Race. Today, we fly to Hawaii.
Episode: 3073 A Look at Continuity. Today, seeing and getting.
Episode: 2597 Mathematical models of historical events. Today, let’s see what mathematics tells us about history.
Episode: 3070 Leon Theremin's Remarkable Music Machine. Today, an aural oddity.
Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.
Episode: 1936 Making electric toys in 1891. Today, we make electric toys.
Episode: 1935 Alexander Wilson, America's ornithologist before Audubon. Today, an unlikely ornithologist.
Episode: 3205 Alice Augusta Ball and Her Work on Leprosy. Today, a legacy with a sad coda.
Episode: 2535 The base of a number system: times tables and memorization. Today, go forth and multiply.
Episode: 1014 Making war on disease: a tricky business. Today, total war proves to be a dangerous business.
Episode: 1917 In which Etienne Jules Marey tries to copy the animals. Today, we try to build machines that work like animals.
