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: 2353 Reflections on -- or in -- the key of C. Today, French hornist Roger Kaza plays in C.
Episode: 3216 World War II, the Los Angeles Art Students League, and Japanese American internment. Today, art and survival.
Episode: 1798 Mind Reading: An exclusively human ability. Today, let us be mind readers.
Episode: 1796 Thoughts on blowing hot and cold. Today, let us blow hot and cold.
Episode: 1795 Blanche Ames: inventor, artist, and conservative activist. Today, meet Blanche Ames.
Episode: 3005 Was Kasparov Outmatched, or Was DeepBlue Lucky? Today, the wrong move.
Episode: 2188 The day the earth moved: plate tectonics and the right question. Today, our guest, geologist Peter Copeland tries to ask the right question.
Episode: 3004 Lenin, Mach, and Higher Dimensions. Today, higher dimensions.
Episode: 1793 What was your name in the States?": Beginning anew. Today, what was your name, back in the States?
Episode: 1794 From Autogiro to Gyroplane: Making the Unicorn Real. Today, a forgotten chapter in the history of flight.
Episode: 1792 The Siren call: not exactly lured by steam sirens and foghorns. Today, we make noise.
Episode: 3003 The Pennsylvania Prison System. Today, in the pen.
Episode: 2628 When traveling into space, how do you know you're there? Today, astronaut Michael Barratt asks, where exactly is the border of space?
Episode: 3002 How Technology Has Enabled Choices. Today, we make a choice.
Episode: 1791 The Thames Tunnel: Heroic engineering and its promotion. Today, the Thames Tunnel.
