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: 1721 A new way to activate your pleasure center: Cooperate! Today, let's activate a pleasure center.
Episode: 1720 The two Silk Roads: One by land, the other by sea. Today, the Silk Road goes to sea.
Episode: 2936 George S. Parker and the Parker Brothers. Today, for the love of games.
Episode: 1719 Edgar Allen Poe's amazing cosmology. Today, gothic cosmology.
Episode: 2933 Math and The Dreyfus Affair. Today, courtroom drama.
Episode: 1718 The Rev. Dionysius Lardner: keeping up with a world in flux. Today, old books with a message for the present.
Episode: 2931 G. H. Hardy, mentor and apologist. Today, a friendship and an apology.
Episode: 1715 The first flight around the world -- in 175 days. Today, we circle the earth.
Episode: 3210 Scourge of the Sea, the long search for a cure for scurvy. Today, a medical cure, lost and found.
Episode: 1714 The mischief, in space, of the "infinite reservoir" thought model. Today, let us fill infinity.
Episode: 1713 George Seldon, Henry Ford, and Clyde Champion Barrow. Today, patents and public relations.
Episode: 2930 Overhanging Books. Today, we stick out.
Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale's graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Episode: 2928 When 1 = 1/2 = 0. Today, that can’t be, can it?
Episode: 1711 In which melting glaciers open up the archaeological record. Today, we follow melting glaciers.
