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:

April 28, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1363: Man the Treasure
Episode: 1363 Man the measure -- man the meter. Today, let's ask what meters measure.
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April 27, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1362: Flying Across the Atlantic
Episode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights. Today, we fly the Atlantic.
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April 26, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1360: Cleaning Ourselves
Episode: 1360 A brief history of bathing ourselves. Today, let's bathe.
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April 25, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1359: Windmills
Episode: 1359 The Windmill: A device that has come, gone, and which may come again. Today, let's tilt at windmills.
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4min
April 24, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2452: Kitchen Gadgetry
Episode: 2452 Gadgets in the American Kitchen. Today, gadgets galore.
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4min
April 23, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2268: The Lucifer Effect
Episode: 2268 The Lucifer Effect: From Stanford University to Abu Ghraib. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, looks at the Lucifer effect.
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April 22, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2557: The Google Ranking System
Episode: 2557 Linear algebra, the mathematics behind Google's ranking algorithm. Today, let's talk about how Google ranks your search results.
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April 21, 2025 The Engines of our Ingenuity 1358: William Minor and the OED
Episode: 1358 William Minor helping us to understand language from an insane asylum. Today, a great dictionary and an asylum for the criminally insane.
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April 20, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1357: Testing Airplane Propellers
Episode: 1357 An airplane propeller test facility, twelve years before the Wright Brothers. Today, we test airplane propellers, 12 years before the Wright brothers flew.
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April 19, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1356: Betting on Science
Episode: 1356 Betting on science. It's been going on for a long time. Today, let's bet on science.
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4min

FAQs about Engines of Our Ingenuity:

How many episodes does Engines of Our Ingenuity have?

The podcast currently has 1,746 episodes available.