Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity
Hosted by Houston Public Media · EN
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 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1603: Old Galileo
2w ago00:03:45Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1603 Galileo: An old man grieves his daughter and writes his last book. Today, an old man writes his most important book.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2618: Søren Kierkegaard
2w ago00:03:49Tap to summarizeEpisode: 2618 Søren Kierkegaard: Christian Existentialist. Today, an exit.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3112: Creative Editor
3w ago00:03:51Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3112 Donald Barthelme: Creative Editor. Today, a sheriff of an editor.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1660: Simple Gifts
3w ago00:03:45Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1660 Simplicity, complexity, and Shakespeare. Today, Seattle Actor Megan Cole is here to talk about complexity, simplicity, and Shakespeare.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1602: The Tragedy of the Commons
3w ago00:03:47Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1602 The tragedy of the commons revisited. Today, the tragedy of the commons.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1601: Dirt
3w ago00:03:44Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1601 Mother dirt. Today, let's play in the dirt.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1600: Adams’s Education
3w ago00:03:38Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1600 Henry Adams ponders the Virgin and the Dynamo. science, medieval architecture, Langley, 1900 Paris exhibition, Chartres cathedral.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1599: Urban Archaeology
3w ago00:03:39Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1599 Urban archaeology: a privy provides a window to the past. Today, history in a trash bin.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2614: Pixels
3w ago00:03:50Tap to summarizeEpisode: 2614 Engineering Pictures Made of Pixels. Today, painting with pixels.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity #3387: Burington’s Handbook
4w ago00:03:51Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3387 In which an old handbook keeps teaching me for almost eight decades years. Today, an old book keeps informing me.
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