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Engines of Our Ingenuity

Houston Public Media

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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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1108: 100 Million Land Mines

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/29

Episode: 1108 100,000,000 land mines -- killing off civilians in perpetuity. Today, land mines tell us about modern war.

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3:36

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1107: Engineering Education

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/28

Episode: 1107 In which we call ourselves engineers, for the last 200 years. Today, we learn where engineers come from.

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3:35

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1105: Mary Roberts

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/27

Episode: 1105 Mary Roberts: The frustration of a 19th century woman scientist. Today, we face the anger of a woman who's been erased.

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3:35

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1104: Von Suttner and Nobel

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/26

Episode: 1104 Nobel, The Baroness von Suttner, and the Peace Prize. Today, the origin of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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3:46

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1748: Multiples of Nine

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/25

Episode: 1748 A remarkable perception of a mathematical oddity. Today, Guest Andrew Boyd, chief scientist at the PROS organization, shares an "age-old" story about numbers.

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3:48

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2846: Coffee Houses

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/24

Episode: 2846 Coffeehouses and the Birth of a Public Sphere. Today, let's share a cup of coffee.

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3:53

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2960: Herculaneum

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/23

Episode: 2960 CSI Herculaneum: How A Terrible Discovery Helps Paleodemography. Today, CSI Herculaneum.

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3:35

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1103: How We Die

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/22

Episode: 1103 How We Die: A surgeon comes to terms with death. Today, a doctor reflects on death and the machinery of sustaining life.

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3:38

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1101: Paconius’s Folly

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/21

Episode: 1101 A Roman engineer's not-quite-right idea for moving a pedestal. Today, a clever Roman engineer outsmarts himself.

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3:32

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1098: Who Invented the...

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/20

Episode: 1098 In which we try to decide who really invented the telephone. Today, an old question: who invented the telephone?

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3:30

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1097: Acceptable Risk

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/19

Episode: 1097 A surprising answer to the question, "How much risk is really acceptable to us?" Today, let's look at the idea of risk homeostasis.

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3:41

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1716: Bounding Billies

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/18

Episode: 1716 Bounding Billies: The century-long reign of the wound-rubber golf ball. Today, our guest, operations researcher Andrew Boyd, tells about the simplest of toys, the golf ball.

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3:38

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3090: Friedrich Richard Petri

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/17

Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri. Today, drawing the frontier.

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3:50

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2888: Strength Through Joy Car

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/16

Episode: 2888 The Strength Through Joy Car: Hitler's Volkswagen and American Consumer Culture. Today, the "strength through joy" car.

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3:35

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1096: Inventing the Organ

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/15

Episode: 1096 Ktesibios invention of the pipe organ in the 3rd century BC. Today, the invention of the pipe organ.

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3:34

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1095: The Lesion Within

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/14

Episode: 1095 The lesion within: Medicine learns look inside the human body. Today, we try to locate the seat of disease.

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3:43

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1622: Fingerprints

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/13

Episode: 1622 Fingerprints, crime detection, and identification. Today, I ask, "Who are you?"

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3:45

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/12

Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial. Today, we visit a really big statue.

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3:55

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2855: Gregorian Chant

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/11

Episode: 2855 Plainchant, Gregorian Chant, and Today's Music. Today, plain and simple.

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3:39

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1094: Mesa Verde

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/01/10

Episode: 1094 Mesa Verde: Another civilization abandonded at its peak. Today, we ask about permanence in a civilization.

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