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 1576: The Wind
4d ago00:03:43Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1576 The wind and its technologies in the ancient mind. Today, wind and the medieval mind.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2596: Golf Club Grooves
5d ago00:03:49Tap to summarizeEpisode: 2596 Golf Club Grooves: How small changes in technology can cause controversy. Today's episode is brought to you by the letters U and V.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3375: Poetry
6d ago00:03:54Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3375 The complex relationship among language, speech, music, and poetry. Today, what is Poetry?
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3374: Board Game Design
1w ago00:03:46Tap to summarizeEpisode 3374: Monte Carlo simulations and board game design. Today, Monte Carlo simulations and board games.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1575: Fields and Continua
1w ago00:03:43Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1575 Fields and continua: A secret art of engineering. Today, a look at a secret abstraction.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1573: Donatello in Time
1w ago00:03:42Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1572: High-Pressure Steam Engines
1w ago00:03:42Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1572 High-pressure steam engines and transportation. Today, the first locomotive.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1571: Oz and Electricity
2w ago00:03:49Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1571 In which the author of Oz contemplates electricity. Today, Dorothy, Kansas, and the new forces of electricity.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia
2w ago00:03:49Tap to summarizeEpisode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen
2w ago00:03:37Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3029 Model Citizen. Today, lets talk about models.
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