Engines of Our Ingenuity

By 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.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes:

January 31, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1321: Century-Old Solar Collector
Episode: 1321 A modern solar collector, a century before its time. Today, an idea whose time had not yet come.
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January 30, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2418: Luck and Las Vegas
Episode: 2418 Quantifying the chance of losing at casino games. Today, luck and Las Vegas.
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January 29, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3235: Verna Fields, “Mother Cutter”
Episode: 3235 Gender, labor history, and the devaluation of film editing. Today, the mother of all film editors.
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January 28, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2822: Herodotus
Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories. Today, we visit Herodotus.
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January 27, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1320: Intellectual Misdirection
Episode: 1320 Today, we wonder where to look for our new widget. Intellectual misdirection: looking inside and outside our heads for knowledge.
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January 26, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1319: Differential Analyzer
Episode: 1319 Vannevar Bush and the great Rockefeller Differential Analyzer. Today, a eulogy for a machine.
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January 25, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1318: Three-Field Rotation
Episode: 1318 Three-field crop rotation and the origins of Western technology. Today, putting horses to work proves harder than we might think.
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January 24, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3305: An Inland Seaport
Episode: 3305 An inland shipping port expands our vision of seaports. Today, an inland seaport.
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January 23, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2414: Intuition Versus Numbers
Episode: 2414 Using numbers in baseball and business. Today, intuition, or numbers.
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January 22, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2553: Complexity and Emergence
Episode: 2553 Emergence and complexity in virtual and living systems. Today, let's talks about emergence.
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The podcast currently has 1,890 episodes available.