Engines of Our Ingenuity
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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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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
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1080: Food in Early texas
12/3/2023
Episode: 1080 Food in the old Republic of Texas ("The Republic of Porkdom"). Today, we wonder, what did our early settlers eat?
Duration:00:03:36
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1077: Coffin Wharf
12/2/2023
Episode: 1077 Of harpoons and coffins: Moby Dick and Black equity in the whaling business. Today, let's talk about coffins and harpoons.
Duration:00:03:35
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1075: Tobacco
12/1/2023
Episode: 1075 Tobacco: Montezuma's real revenge. Today, we find out what Montezuma's revenge really was.
Duration:00:03:35
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2956: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs
11/30/2023
Episode: 2956 Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs. Today, a dam song.
Duration:00:03:58
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2885: Big Numbers
11/29/2023
Episode: 2885 Very Large Numbers. Today, let's talk about very large numbers.
Duration:00:03:50
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2645: Arch
11/28/2023
Episode: 2645 Eero Saarinen, Hannskarl Bandel and the creation of the Gateway Arch. Today, a chain and an arch.
Duration:00:03:49
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1074: Imhotep
11/27/2023
Episode: 1074 Imhotep, the first real person in recorded history. Today, let's meet the first real person in history.
Duration:00:03:32
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1072: Probability
11/26/2023
Episode: 1072 Of Dice and Death: Writing the theory of probability. Today, let's try to predict the future.
Duration:00:03:33
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1071: A Gift of Turtle Eggs
11/25/2023
Episode: 1071 A biology teacher gets fresh Turtle Eggs to Louis Agassiz. Today, a young biology teacher delivers a pail of turtle eggs.
Duration:00:03:36
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3292: An Old Ruler
11/24/2023
Episode: 3292 How an old ruler got around dimensional isolationism. Today, an old ruler.
Duration:00:03:54
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2953: Chairlift
11/23/2023
Episode: 2953 Engineering the Chairlift. Today, getting to the top.
Duration:00:03:50
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3291: Osler’s Literary Vibration
11/21/2023
Episode: 3291 Dr. Osler’s harmonious intersection of medicine and literature. Today, Dr. Osler’s Sympathetic Vibration.
Duration:00:03:48
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1070: Wrong-Way Corrigan
11/20/2023
Episode: 1070 Wrong Way Corrigan -- a last bit of fun before WW-II. Today, a pilot adds an expression to the English language.
Duration:00:03:25
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1069: A Spider’s Web
11/19/2023
Episode: 1069 Spider webs and all they offer us -- if we could only replicate them. Today, let's try to weave a magic web.
Duration:00:03:36
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1068: Imitating Nature
11/18/2023
Episode: 1068 On trying to copy nature -- harder than you might think. Today, we try to copy Mother Nature.
Duration:00:03:32
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1067: Science, Religion, and John Tyndall
11/17/2023
Episode: 1067 John Tyndall's reflections on science and religion. Today, an agnostic Victorian physicist looks for God.
Duration:00:03:27
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2952: Cataclysm
11/16/2023
Episode: 2952 Cataclysm: J Harlen Bretz and the Ice Age Floods. Today, a river runs through it.
Duration:00:03:49
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2081: A Monstrosity and a Skeptic
11/15/2023
Episode: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.
Duration:00:03:45
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2864: Bayes’ Theorem
11/14/2023
Episode: 2864 The theorem of Reverend Bayes. Today, let's talk about uncertainty and an 18th-century Presbyterian minister.
Duration:00:03:51
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1066 A Tale of Three Bridges
11/13/2023
Episode: 1066 Three bridges, two fell and one stood: A parable about success and failure. Today, an ominous tale of three designers and three bridges.
Duration:00:03:36