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Engines of Our Ingenuity
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 2596: Golf Club Grooves 21.05.2026 3:49
Episode: 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.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3375: Poetry 20.05.2026 3:54
Episode: 3375 The complex relationship among language, speech, music, and poetry. Today, what is Poetry?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3374: Board Game Design 19.05.2026 3:46
Episode 3374: Monte Carlo simulations and board game design. Today, Monte Carlo simulations and board games.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1575: Fields and Continua 18.05.2026 3:43
Episode: 1575 Fields and continua: A secret art of engineering. Today, a look at a secret abstraction.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1573: Donatello in Time 17.05.2026 3:42
Episode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1572: High-Pressure Steam Engines 16.05.2026 3:42
Episode: 1572 High-pressure steam engines and transportation. Today, the first locomotive.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1571: Oz and Electricity 15.05.2026 3:49
Episode: 1571 In which the author of Oz contemplates electricity. Today, Dorothy, Kansas, and the new forces of electricity.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia 14.05.2026 3:49
Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen 13.05.2026 3:37
Episode: 3029 Model Citizen. Today, lets talk about models.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2081: A Monstrosity and a Skeptic 12.05.2026 3:45
Episode: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3373: Thomas Campion 11.05.2026 4:09
Episode: 3373 Today we meet Thomas Campion: medical doctor, and a great poet and composer. Today, let’s meet Thomas Campion.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1570: A New Light Bulb 10.05.2026 3:44
Episode: 1570 GE, light bulbs, and the product-driven innovation cycle. Today, we talk about light bulbs and product innovation.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1569: Alkahest 09.05.2026 3:41
Episode: 1569 Alkahest , the universal solvent. Today, we look for the universal solvent.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1568: The Age of the Earth 08.05.2026 3:42
Episode: 1568 Lord Kelvin's miscalculation of the age of the earth. Today, a Victorian scientist miscalculates the age of the earth.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2591: Instant Runoff Voting 07.05.2026 3:49
Episode: 2591 Instant runoff voting and the Academy Awards. Today, what's best?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2885: Big Numbers 06.05.2026 3:50
Episode: 2885 Very Large Numbers. Today, let's talk about very large numbers.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3372: Gaslighting 05.05.2026 3:44
Episode: 3372 Rhetoric, Objectivity, and Gaslighting. Today, we flip the switch on “gaslight.”
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3371: Mary Colter 04.05.2026 3:53
Episode: 3371 The creative work and relative anonymity of Mary Coulter, and her Native American architecturally themed designs. Today, meet Mary Colter.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1567: Christopher Wren, Physician 03.05.2026 3:41
Episode: 1567 Christopher Wren: a great architect first learns medicine. Today, an unexpected student of medicine.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1566: Glottochronology 02.05.2026 3:41
Episode: 1566 Glottochronology: In which language decays like carbon-14. Today, a new word for you: glottochronology .
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1565: Hysplex 01.05.2026 3:41
Episode: 1565 Using the hysplex to start an ancient Greek foot race. Today, we learn how to start a foot race.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2588: Synthetic Sound Waves 30.04.2026 3:49
Episode: 2588 Synthetic Sound Waves. Today, the sound of music.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3370: Poetic Meter 29.04.2026 3:52
Episode: 3370 A Look at Poetry and the Importance of Rhythmic Metre. Today, the rhythm of poetry.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3369: Tiny Living Factories 28.04.2026 3:35
Episode: 3369 Small cells and microorganism that behave like living factories. Today, tiny living factories.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3368: Reality 26.04.2026 3:50
Episode: 3368 The possibility that there exists a reality out of reach of any human science. Today, we wonder what’s real.
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