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: 1534 Making sense of the slippery concept of acceleration. Today, let's think about falling.
Episode: 3177 Venetian Flood Control. Today, a flood control project.
Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.
Episode: 1532 The invention and selling of the typewriter. Today, the typewriter teaches us its purpose.
Episode: 2778 Qualia and Mary’s Black and White Room. Today, there's something about Mary.
Episode: 2773 The Mechanics of Muppets. Today, engineering entertainment.
Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let's theorize.
Episode: 2772 Transhumanism. Today, we change.
Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.
Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.
Episode: 2771 Shorthand: Past, Present and Future. Today, to the point.
Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.
Episode: 2769 Math Wars: The progressive math movement in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Today, math wars.
Episode: 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion. Today, we learn to talk.
Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.
