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: 1804 Timewarp in an 1852 painting of New York Harbor. Today, an artist catches history in flight.
Episode: 1802 Freelan and Francis Stanley, and their steamer. Today, the Stanleys and their Steamer.
Episode: 3219 Gravity-Powered Intracity Transport. Today, a wild ride.
Episode: 2669 Plants and greens associated with the Christmas Season. Today, Christmas greenery.
Episode: 2039 In which we experience quiet on the Western Front. Today, it's quiet on the Western Front.
Episode: 1803 The fire escape: an icon that hardly still exists. Today, fire escapes.
Episode: 1800 A concern about sciences that encompass everything. Today, a single science for all things?
Episode: 3008 Sealed Clamshell Packaging. Today, tightly sealed.
Episode: 2514 How Netflix uses linear algebra to determine what movies you will like best. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about math and your movie choice.
Episode: 3218 Bob Dylan's Self-Education. Today, Dylan goes to school.
Episode: 1799 Miriam Leslie: like Gloria Steinem, Clare Boothe Luce, and Elizabeth Taylor all rolled into one. Today, Miriam F. Leslie.
Episode: 1801 An update on windmills/wind-turbines and renewable energy. Today, a windmill report.
Episode: 3037 Carol of the Bells. Christmas carols, Shchedryk, Mykola Leontovych, Oleksander Koshyts, Peter Wilhousky
Episode: 3217 Two 1937 booklets reveal a shift in the art of model airplane building. Today, I look through a window into another time.
Episode: 3006 The Good and Bad of Generalization. Today, we generalize.
