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: 2675 Harry and Febb King Ensminger burn and Tennessee’s ratification of the nineteenth amendment. Today, a mother’s influence.
Episode: 1416 Technology on Hold: ideas that return after a long time. Today, technology on hold.
Episode: 2672 Self replicating machines. Today, remaking yourself.
Episode: 1415 Right and left handedness: some new ideas about origins. Today, why do you write with your right hand?
Episode: 1414 Viewing America through advertisements in Appleton's magazine, 1869. Today, advertisements just after the Civil War.
Episode: 3146 Some Reflections on Human Comprehension. Today, we reflect.
Episode: 1413 How contemporary Romantic poets saw the Industrial Revolution. Today, Romantic poets and the Industrial Revolution.
Episode: 2665 Intellectual vigilance: when obvious isn’t obvious. Today, the people on the bus.
Episode: 1412 NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis (or NEAT) and weight gain. Today, we lose weight.
Episode: 1411 The role of notation in John Dalton's atomic theory. Today, we wonder how to draw an atom.
Episode: 2663 Horatio Alger. Today, a Horatio Alger story.
Episode: 1410 Homo Technologicus. Today, a chicken-and-egg question.
Episode: 2660 Computers, Brains, and the Church-Turing Thesis. Today, inside the machine.
Episode: 1408 Fast game, slow game, and Stone Age population dynamics. Today, a Paleolithic story of the tortoise and the hare.
Episode: 1407 A matter of size: scaling laws among living species. Today, a matter of size.
