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: 3151 Descartes and Reason. Today, a voice crying out for reason.
Episode: 1436 Adding it up in 1910: A book grapples with the coming 20th century. Today, a world prepares to be transformed.
Episode: 2698 Galileo, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Vatican Library. Today, of science and scripture.
Episode: 1435 Rudolf Diesel, his engine, and a look at invention. Today, meet Rudolf Diesel.
Episode: 1434 Reflections on systems, complexity, and modern life. Today, let's see what happens when our technologies join forces.
Episode: 2694 Science and the Second Industrial Revolution. Today, science, invention, and a revolution of sorts.
Episode: 1433 The invention of the FAX, and the FAX newspaper. Today, the FAX newspaper.
Episode: 2692 Hotelling's Law. Today, we meet in the middle.
Episode: 1432 Thoughts in dispraise of decisiveness. Today, let's not decide.
Episode: 1431 In which dogs humanize us. Today, some sidelights on the history of dogs.
Episode: 3150 Can Technology Replace Sports Officiating? Today, kill the umpire!
Episode: 1430 A concern about the complexity and danger of genius. Today, I find genius puzzling.
Episode: 2690 What the pharaohs didn’t have: appreciating modern technology. Today, to be a pharaoh.
Episode: 1429 Joseph Stalin and Russian aircraft records in the 1930s. Today, Joseph Stalin tries to set flight distance records.
Episode: 1427 Dominique de Menil, a creative legacy. Today, I learn something at a fancy benefit dinner.
