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: 1279 Two Newtons, an old mechanics text, and the fight against slavery. Today, a moving bit of marginalia.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2384 Swaying wooden roller coasters. Today, we sway.Dr. Andy Boyd
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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.Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 2143 In which Emma Lazarus reinvents the Statue of Liberty. Today, UH scholar Dorothy Baker tells us about Emma Lazarus.Dorothy Baker
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Episode: 1278 The Quonset hut: a design with remarkable staying power. Today, we build an instant house.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1277 Railroads in winter: finding our way through the snow. Today, rails and snow.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1276 In which the art leads the mind how to cast light on nature. Today, light calls up the creative muse.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1275 Merthyr Tydfil, a window into the squalid conditions after the Industrial Revolution. Today, let's visit Merthyr Tydfil.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2361 Making ethanol from cellulose. Today, we make moonshine.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2279 In which medical people learn how to save babies on the boardwalk. Today, our guest, medical historian Julie Anderson takes us to see premature babies at carnival sideshows.Julie Anderson
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Episode: 2356 Hebrew and Yiddish struggle for ascendancy after WW-II. Today, scholar Richard Armstrong considers the world of language textbooksRichard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 1274 The Maxim Gorky, largest airplane of its time. Today, Stalin builds a big airplane.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1273 Some surprises in the 1852 Annual of Scientific Discovery. Today, an old book takes stock of science and art in 1852.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1271 In which automobiles race around the world in 1906. Today, an incredible, and nearly-forgotten, race!Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1270 Wallace's line and the evolution of modern humans. Today, we cross Wallace's line.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2354 Women and Astronomy in the Late 19th Century. Today, Pickering's Harem.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2808 Plastic encapsulation of microchips, protection from environment and loads. Today, the encapsulation story.Haleh Ardebili
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Episode: 2231 Of cuckoos, cuckoldry and brood parasitic cupidity. Today, our guest, classicist Richard Armstrong goes cuckoo over brood parasites.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 1268 Finding your limelight. Today, let us find our light.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1267 The secret American Navy of the War of 1812. Today, a secret American navy for the War of 1812.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1266 In which Mrs. O'Leary is absolved of the Great Chicago Fire. Today, a new look at an old fire.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1265 Science and the myth of the self-evident truth. Today, a closer look at scientific knowledge.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2350 Dystopia: Getting to know utopias evil twin. Today, the evils of technology.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2341 Richard Wagner conceives a sound, then invents an instrument to create it. Today, horn player Roger Kaza tells us about the tuba Wagner built.Roger Kaza
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Episode: 1940 In which Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister build a model house to pay for a mansion. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells us about a cabin, a mansion, and a model home.Margaret Culbertson
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Episode: 1262 An 18-century environmental disaster in Brittany, France. Today, an 18th-century environmental disaster.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1261 Healthy equilibrium: only a platform for instability. Today, we try to keep our equilibrium.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1260 Darwin boards the Beagle and sails into history. Today, a young man boards a ship and redirects history.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1258 Inventing the steamboat, inventing the riverboat. Today, the present helps us to understand the past.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2345 Making Music With a Computer. Today, when is a musician a musician?Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2530 The observation is evolution & the theory is natural selection. Today, what did Darwin really do?Peter Copeland
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Episode: 2776 Isaac Asimov's fantastic worlds, robots that roam among us, and energy storage methods. Today, our guest Haleh Ardebili talks about Isaac Asimov and Energy Storage.Haleh Ardebili
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Episode: 1257 Digging the first Suez Canal, 4000 years ago. Today, we ask, when was the Suez Canal built?Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1255 On being healthy, wealthy, and (maybe) wise as well. Today, we seem to find that it's healthy to be wealthy.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1254 A new look at the wheel: the problem of rotation. Today, another look at the invention of the wheel.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1253 Hanna Reitsch: a true believer in a cursed cause. Today, a brave woman and a terrible cause.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2338 How Skill and Chance Influence the Outcome of Games. Today, skill and chance.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2228 Ancient Explanations of Bird Migrations. Today, our guest, classicist Richard Armstrong, watches the ancients studying bird migrations.Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 3230 How close-ups offer social and psychological benefits that selfies do not. Today, psychology of the close-up.Karen Fang
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Episode: 1252 Forgotten invention of manufacturing with interchangeable parts. Today, a brilliant invention is forgotten.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1055 Reflections on roller skates, roller blades, and stability. Today, a strange parable of appearance and reality.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1054 In Praise of Bats. Today, we meet some beleaguered animals that should be our friends.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1052 In which wasps teach us to make paper from wood. Today, wasps try to teach us to make paper.Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2334 Edward Bellamy: The year 2000 as envisioned in 1888. Today, Looking Backward.Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3203 The Shape of Proteins. Today, let's talk about the shape of proteins.Dr. Krešimir Josić
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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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