Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 1284 Mikhail Goldshtik: A death and a beginning.  Today, a creative legacy.

Episode: 2387 Recycling Plastics.  Today, just one word.

Episode: 1983 Inventing the newspaper in seventeenth-century England.  Today, our guest, historian Cathy Patterson reports on the invention of the newspaper.

Episode: 2502 Computer assisted proofs: How machines extend our mind's reach.  Today, let's ask how computers help us see mathematical truths.

Episode: 1282 The development of the seemingly uncomplicated window pane.  Today, we learn to make window panes.

Episode: 1281 An old religious tract provides a window upon the Huguenots.  Today, an old book and a new look at creativity and dissent.

Episode: 1280 On making data tell their story.  Today, let's figure out how to plot a graph.

Episode: 1279 Two Newtons, an old mechanics text, and the fight against slavery.  Today, a moving bit of marginalia.

Episode: 2384 Swaying wooden roller coasters.  Today, we sway.

Episode: 2487 John von Neumann's ideas on the similarities and differences of computers and brains.  Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about brains, computers and John von Neumann.