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: 1879 Living in the present: an impossible goal. Today, we look for Right Now.
Episode: 1878 Fourier, Egypt, and modern applied mathematics. Today, Joseph Fourier.
Episode: 3053 Music and the Brain. Today, this is your brain on music.
Episode: 2382 The Invention of the American Paperboy during the Great Depression. Today, the invention of the paperboy.
Episode: 2480 Stephanie Kwolek: Inventor of Kevlar. Today, not-so-shining armor.
Episode: 1876 In which Thomas Bayes mixes prior knowledge with a priori deduction. Today, we learn how to hedge bets.
Episode: 1877 Ötzi's death: 5300-year-old forensic evidence brings ancient technology to life. Today, Ötzi's death.
Episode: 1875 Inventing Modern: In which a book instructs its author. Today, history repeated.
Episode: 3051 The Art of Rhetoric. Today, do facts speak for themselves?
Episode: 2246 Sailing into the wind: vectors, language, and a fine summer's day. Today, our guest, chaplain and sailor John Price, heads into the wind.
Episode: 3234 The Moving Sofa Problem. Today, we talk about the mathematics of moving a couch.
Episode: 1874 Implications of a 30,000-year-old culture at Siberia's Jana River. Today, old spears, by the cold Jana River.
Episode: 1873 Mozart at eight: a contemporary view. Today, when Mozart was eight.
Episode: 1872 Art and revolution: reliving 1953. Today, this is not a movie review, but ...
Episode: 3049 Charcoal Briquettes. Today, we barbeque.
