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:

March 28, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2951: Going to Sea
Episode: 2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial. Today, we go to sea.
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4min
March 27, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2540: Semi-Submersible Ships
Episode: 2540 Semi-Submersible Ships, or how the USS Cole hitched a ride home. Today, semi-submersible ships.
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4min
March 26, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2537: Vredefort and Apophis
Episode: 2537 Vredefort, Chicxulub, Apophis — once and future threats to Earth. Today, Vredefort and Apophis.
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4min
March 25, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2536: Scapa Flow
Episode: 2536 The Scapa Flow ship cemetery. Today, Scapa Flow.
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4min
March 24, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2532: Fanny Kemble
Episode: 2532 Fanny Kemble, technology, and London's circle of radical intellectual women. Today, another kind of radical.
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4min
March 23, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2891: Specifics and Generalities
Episode: 2891 Specifics and Generalities: teaching and the problem of universals. Today, what exactly is that?
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4min
March 22, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2448: Rachmaninoff Unblocked
Episode: 2448 Sergei Rachmaninoff visits a hypnotist to remove his writer's block. Today, a composer unblocked.
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5min
March 21, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 3288: Yellow-Bellies
Episode: 3288 Yellow-Bellies. Today we consider "Yellow Bellies".
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4min
March 20, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2528: Weights and Measures
Episode: 2528 le Systeme international d'units, our real standard of units. Today, another look at weights and measures.
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4min
March 19, 2023 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2526: Montagu/Sandwich
Episode: 2526 John Montague, Lord Sandwich, and a little-known island chain. Today, Sandwich's islands.
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4min

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How many episodes does Engines of Our Ingenuity have?

The podcast currently has 1,955 episodes available.