Engines of Our Ingenuity
Houston PR
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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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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Episodes
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3129: What Went Wrong on D-Day
9/17/2024
Episode: 3129 What Went Wrong on D-Day: The Paradox of the Allies' Greatest Campaign. Today, when things go terribly wrong.
Duration:00:03:51
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1041: Chinese Pharmacy
9/16/2024
Episode: 1041 A Chinese pharmacopoeia -- 2000 years ago. Today, we ask how the Chinese managed to hide their candle under a bushel.
Duration:00:03:32
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1040: Humanism and Feminism
9/15/2024
Episode: 1040 Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe: virtues and vices. Today, an old Greek mummy tells us about the Renaissance.
Duration:00:03:33
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1251: Katherine Stinson
9/14/2024
Episode: 1251 Katherine Stinson and her siblings help America learn to fly. Today, meet the Stinson kids.
Duration:00:03:36
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1250: Water in the Desert
9/13/2024
Episode: 1250 Qanats: ancient watercourses, heroic constructions. Today, we talk about qanats.
Duration:00:03:34
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2323: Teleportation
9/12/2024
Episode: 2323 "Beam me up Scotty," The longed-for grail of teleportation. Today, we teleport.
Duration:00:03:50
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3139: Miryam Mirzakhani
9/11/2024
Episode: 3139 Maryam Mirzakhani: A life in Mathematics. Today, let's talk about the Iranian-American mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani.
Duration:00:03:44
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3080: The First Marathon
9/10/2024
Episode: 3080 The First Marathon and the Athens Olympics of 1896. Today, we run through the history of the marathon.
Duration:00:03:50
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1249: Bricks
9/9/2024
The Engines of Our Ingenuity Episode #1249 Bricks
Duration:00:03:36
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1248: Charles and Hester Stanhope
9/8/2024
Episode: 1248 Hester Stanhope creates her own British Empire in Syria. Today, a prime minister's niece doesn't get the message.
Duration:00:03:36
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1247: Three Women Architects
9/7/2024
Episode: 1247 America's first women architects: three very different people. Today, a story about three very different women.
Duration:00:03:34
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1246: Momentum
9/6/2024
Episode: 1246 Figuring out what the word momentum means. Today, let's talk about momentum.
Duration:00:03:32
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2320: Computer Memory
9/5/2024
Episode: 2320 Tracing recent history: computer memory over three decades. Today, we get smaller.
Duration:00:03:51
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3109: Aumann’s Theorem
9/4/2024
Episode: 3109 Mathematics says that we should never disagree, but we still do. Today, let's talk about what I know that you know.
Duration:00:03:51
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3078: Restoring the Parthenon
9/3/2024
Episode: 3078 Restoring the Parthenon: The Acropolis Restoration Service and 40+ Years of Hard Work. Today, how to rebuild a ruin.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1245: Sarah Bagley
9/2/2024
Episode: 1245 In which Sarah Bagley opens the field of telegraphy to women. Today, a woman claims a job market for other women.
Duration:00:03:32
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1244: Making Science Fun
9/1/2024
Episode: 1244 Is fun rightly under assault in science education? Today, we ask whether or not science should be fun.
Duration:00:03:38
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1243: Five-Fold Symmetry
8/31/2024
Episode: 1243 In which we are surprised by the power of five-fold symmetry. Today, let's think about fives.
Duration:00:03:38
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1242: Kasparov and Deep Blue
8/30/2024
Episode: 1242 What did the defeat of Kasparov by Deep Blue really mean? Today, we wonder what Deep Blue was telling us.
Duration:00:03:34
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2316: Operations Research
8/29/2024
Episode: 2316 Operations Reasearch, the invisible engineering that everyone uses and few people know. Today, the science of better.
Duration:00:03:51