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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THOUGHTS and DREAMS from a DADPRENUER! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Ingenuity/support
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Creative. Motivated. Ingenious. There’s only one group of people who have ever figured out how to deliver as much energy as the world wants. This is the show about how they did it. And how they keep doing it.
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Podcast by Hoff & Dunn
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James Caan discusses his impressive career and offers his top tips on running a successful business. As one of the UK’s most successful businessmen, his name has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. James also discusses his latest entry into the digital realm with his new app, James Caan Business Secrets. Moderated by editor from The Sunday Times, Paul Croughton, at the Apple Store, Covent Garden, London.
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Episode: 3133 Juan Pujol García: the Liar Who Helped Win D-Day. Today, a great big liar saves the day.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 1051 A Conservation Laboratory keeps vanishing arts alive. Today, we ask: Just what is a conservator conserving?Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1049 Hugh Miller: a fundamentalist radicalizes 19th century geology. Today, a 19th-century geologist struggles with the creation of the earth.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1048 Medieval machines in a 20th century hydraulics text. Today, two 20th-century thinkers look at the end of an era.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1047 In which I question the dubious practice of ghost-writing. Today, we ask, "Who writes our story?"Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2331 A cow's eye view: Temple Grandin and mercy for the the condemned. Today, the unspeakable.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3130 A War of Concrete: The Mulberry Harbors and the Invasion of Normandy. Today, a portable port saves the day.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 1046 The mind of Faraday and the merging of science and religion. Today, a look inside the mind of a surprising scientist.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1045 A lesson in engineering design on the sports pages. Today, lessons in modern design from the sports pages.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1044 Finding the largest Japanese submarine after 51 years -- 4,400 lb. of gold, 17,000 feet down. Today, we look for gold, and we find history.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1042 Tiny type: shrinking writing down to atomic dimensions. Today, let's write on the head of a pin.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2327 George Dantzig, linear programing, and a curious priority question. Today, a Nobel Prize lost.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3224 Fake rocks, forced perspective, and other forms of illusion in the private home of Disney Imagineer Fred Joerger. Today, facades, both physical and personal.Karen Fang
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Episode: 3129 What Went Wrong on D-Day: The Paradox of the Allies' Greatest Campaign. Today, when things go terribly wrong.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 1041 A Chinese pharmacopoeia -- 2000 years ago. Today, we ask how the Chinese managed to hide their candle under a bushel.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1040 Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe: virtues and vices. Today, an old Greek mummy tells us about the Renaissance.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1251 Katherine Stinson and her siblings help America learn to fly. Today, meet the Stinson kids.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1250 Qanats: ancient watercourses, heroic constructions. Today, we talk about qanats.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2323 "Beam me up Scotty," The longed-for grail of teleportation. Today, we teleport.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3139 Maryam Mirzakhani: A life in Mathematics. Today, let's talk about the Iranian-American mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani.Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 3080 The First Marathon and the Athens Olympics of 1896. Today, we run through the history of the marathon.Richard H. Armstrong
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity Episode #1249 BricksDr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1248 Hester Stanhope creates her own British Empire in Syria. Today, a prime minister's niece doesn't get the message.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1247 America's first women architects: three very different people. Today, a story about three very different women.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1246 Figuring out what the word momentum means. Today, let's talk about momentum.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2320 Tracing recent history: computer memory over three decades. Today, we get smaller.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3109 Mathematics says that we should never disagree, but we still do. Today, let's talk about what I know that you know.Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 3078 Restoring the Parthenon: The Acropolis Restoration Service and 40+ Years of Hard Work. Today, how to rebuild a ruin.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 1245 In which Sarah Bagley opens the field of telegraphy to women. Today, a woman claims a job market for other women.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1244 Is fun rightly under assault in science education? Today, we ask whether or not science should be fun.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1243 In which we are surprised by the power of five-fold symmetry. Today, let's think about fives.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1242 What did the defeat of Kasparov by Deep Blue really mean? Today, we wonder what Deep Blue was telling us.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2316 Operations Reasearch, the invisible engineering that everyone uses and few people know. Today, the science of better.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3075 Thucydides, Democracy, and Hope. Today, the problem of hope.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 2899 The Rise and Fall of Celestial Navigation As Seen Through the Development of the Sextant. Today, the Vanishing Sextant.Michael Barratt
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Episode: 1241 The search for Franklin and the search for the Northwest Passage. Today, we go looking for a lost explorer.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1239 Ensemble theory offers us insight through parallel universes. Today, a practical use for an abstract theory.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1238 The 1893 Chicago Columbia Exposition: America comes of age. Today, America celebrates her coming of age.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1237 Why did the Hindenburg really burn? Today, we ask, "Why did the Hindenburg burn?"Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2312 How we finally put crews of computers to work on our desktops. Today, when is one computer not enough?Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3107 Why it matters that we expect boys to brilliant and girls to work hard. Today, let's talk about who we expect to be brilliant.Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 3209 Net of Life: Can Technology Protect Us from Ourselves? Today, a net of life.Roger Kaza
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Episode: 1236 In which an old man finally flies in a B-17. Today, a child's wish is finally granted.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1234 The biggest domed structure before the Houston Astrodome. Today, who were we in 1900?Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1233 Today, the empire finally takes to the air. Baden-Powell flies in balloons, airplanes, and even kites.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2307 A Canadian-American icon and nature's engineer: The Beaver. Today, scientist Andrew Boyd and nature's engineer.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3077 When is a Victory not a Victory? The Battle of Navarino Today, we ask: when is a victory not a victory?Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 3072 The brewer, chemist and statistician William Sealy Gosset. Today, a master brewer and a statistician.Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 1232 A Neanderthal flute made from the thigh of a cave bear. Today, the oldest musical instrument.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1231 In which automobile advertising mirrored the public. Today, we trace a new technology through advertisements.Dr. John Lienhard
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