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: 1790 The Fireside University: struggling to know and teach, technology and science. Today, a fireside university.
Episode: 1789 Goethe's Farbenlehre: science and Romanticism. Today, light and color.
Episode: 2997 Much Ado About Aging. Today, some things never get old.
Episode: 2368 In which Shakespeare and Cervantes die on the same day, but eleven days apart. Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about puzzles in chronology.
Episode: 2995 Very High Speed Tube Trains. Today, we go tubular.
Episode: 1784 The folly of finding the first doughnut, or airplane. Today, doughnuts and priority.
Episode: 1787 A price on your head, but how much? Today, what's a life worth?
Episode: 1782 Thoughts about energy and the human motor. Today, human energy.
Episode: 2992 Algae. Today, scum of the earth.
Episode: 2341 Richard Wagner conceives a sound, then invents an instrument to create it. Today, horn player Roger Kaza tells us about the tuba Wagner built.
Episode: 1789 Goethe's Farbenlehre: science and Romanticism. Today, light and color.
Episode 2990 The Minnesota Bump. Today, a bump.
Episode: 1781 Flora Haines Loughead, social change and airplanes. Today, airplanes and Flora Loughead.
Episode: 1783 What did the ancients eat? Today, what did the ancients eat?
Episode: 1780 Radio Days -- a tribute to early radio. Today, listen, with me, to an old radio.
