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: 1710 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Today, a new look at an old encyclopaedia.
Episode: 2926 Nerd Nite and the etymology of the word Nerd. Today, bazinga!
Episode: 1709 Cap Wigington. Today, a remarkable architect.
Episode: 3209 Net of Life: Can Technology Protect Us from Ourselves? Today, a net of life.
Episode: 1707 In which virtual reality is more real than we'd expected. Today, information, too dense to be objective.
Episode: 1706 The Two Eiffel Towers. Today, Eiffel builds two towers.
Episode: 2924 Not In This Universe: When the possible really isn't. Today, we do a lot of typing.
Episode: 1705 A 3000-year-old woman with an artificial toe. Today, a big toe made of wood.
Episode: 2923 The opossum: nature's little sanitary engineer. Today, nature’s sanitation engineer.
Episode: 1704 Restorative Justice: a rare inventive response to necessity. Today, invention and crime.
Episode: 1703 The IBM 360 computer: an imprint upon the Palouse wheat fields. Today, a new computer.
Episode: 2922 Gearing up: the continuously variable transmission. Today, we change gears.
Episode: 1701 The sewing machine in American life. Today, the sewing machine.
Episode: 2919 The Roomba. Today, we clean up.
Episode: 1699 Çatalhöyük: An ancient city, held together by plaster. Today, the surprising cement that held an ancient city together.
