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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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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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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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2858: Hearing Pictures
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Episode: 2858 Hearing Pictures: Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Today, hearing pictures.Bởi Roger Kaza
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Episode: 2722 Gathering of Materials and Methods to Craft Sailing and Space-faring Vessels. Today, voyaging at the edge of technology.Bởi Michael Barratt
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1204: Baron von Humboldt
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Episode: 1204 Baron von Humboldt's remarkable exploration of Meso-America. Today, a nearly forgotten hero.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1200: London’s Secret Museums
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Episode: 1200 London's secret museums. Today, we visit London's secret museums.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1199: Gallup Poll
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Episode: 1199 Gallup Poll: spawn of intellect with some saving imperfection. Today, we try to foretell how you plan to vote.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1198: The Gates of Hell
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Episode: 1198 In which Virgil visits a theme park and writes the Aeneid. Today, we pass through the Gates of Hell.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2150 Scotty on Starship Enterprise: an image of an engineer. Today, we beam up with guest scientist Andrew Boyd.Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3054: Electioneering in Ancient Rome
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Episode: 3054 Electioneering in Ancient Rome: the Commentariolum Petitionis Attributed to Cicero's Brother. Today, how to get elected in ancient Rome.Bởi Richard H. Armstrong
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3162: Charge With My Jacket
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Episode: 3162 A Jacket With Embedded Flexible Thin-Film Batteries That Can Charge a Device. Today, a wonderful technology.Bởi Haleh Ardebili
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1196: Batting 400
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Episode: 1196 Reflections on batting 400, evolution, economics, and diversity. Today, what do batting averages, evolution, and the economy have in common?Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1195 Dhuoda writes to her son in Ninth Century France. Today, a remarkable woman opens a window on another age.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1194: Self-Deception
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Episode: 1194 A scientifically illiterate people goes bankrupt on health care. Today, thoughts on medicine, self-deception, and scientific literacy.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1193: West with the Night
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Episode: 1193 Beryl Markham flies out of Africa, and across the Atlantic. Today, a daring flight and an unlikely book.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2117: The Internet of Tubes
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Episode: 2117 The Internet of Tubes: In which a gaffe evokes the history of communication. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd and the Internet of Tubes.Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3018: Compressed Sensing
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Episode: 3018 Compressed Sensing. Today, let's talk about getting something from nothing.Bởi Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2833: Kykkos Monastery
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Episode: 2833 Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus, and the origins of Western monasticism. Today, monks and hermits.Bởi Roger Kaza
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1192: Black Sea
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Episode: 1192 In which a deluge transforms the Black Sea -- and farming. Today, let's ride the wake of an old old flood.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1190: Mustard Gas
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Episode: 1190 The only mustard gas attack in WWII yields new medicine. Today, a story about cancer and a WW-II mustard gas attack.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1189: Theodore Pachelbel
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Episode: 1189 The other Pachelbel brings music to Colonial America. Today, the first "recorded" concert in America.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1188: William Billings
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Episode: 1188 William Billings, Colonial composer and American original. Today, we meet America's first significant composer.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2094 Thinking inside the box: the invention of containerization. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd discusses The Box.Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2710: Thomas Selfridge
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Episode: 2710 The First Fatality in Powered Flight Awakens the World to the Dangers of Aviation. Today, the first powered aviation fatality.Bởi Michael Barratt
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3298: Optic Yellow
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Episode: 3298 Gender, Color, and Dichotomy in Tennis. Today, we take sides in tennis.Bởi Karen Fang
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1187: Good/Bad : People/Machines
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Episode: 1187 Good people make good machines: Bad people make bad machines. Today, we try to construct an aphorism.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1186: Bach and Handel
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Episode: 1186 Bach, Handel, and their charlatan eye doctor. Today, an odd connection between Bach and Handel.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1185: Adam Smith
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Episode: 1185 Adam Smith: of economics and natural law. Today, a bright Scot looks to natural law for an economic model.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1184 The mirror: something that looks far more obvious than it is. Today, we look in the mirror and find something strange.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2062: The Just Price
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Episode: 2062 How much may I justly charge for my widget? Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks "what's it worth?"Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3095: Making a Revolution
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Episode: 3095 Making a Revolution. Today, the Maker revolution.Bởi Fitz Walker
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3297: Modeling the World
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Episode: 3297 Modeling the future of human civilization. Today, modeling the future of human civilization.Bởi Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1183: Leonardo and Leda
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Episode: 1183 Leda and swan Zeus: Leonardo contemplates life. Today, we watch as myth drives science.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1181: Edith Humphrey
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Episode: 1181 In which Edith Humphry doesn't quite receive the Nobel Prize. Today, a woman doesn't quite get the Nobel Prize.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1180: Lardner and Energy
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Episode: 1180 Dionysius Lardner looks at early steam power technology. Today, a contemporary look at power technology, 170 years ago.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1179: How Aspirin Finds the Headache
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Episode: 1179 How does Aspirin find your headache? (More Feldman questions). Today, aspirin looks for your headache.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2053: John Cage
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Episode: 2053 A reflection on John Cage and his silences. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd goes silent.Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2973: And Then There Were None
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Episode: 2973 The Lady of Mysteries Agatha Christie; The Famous Detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Piorot. Today, the lady of mysteries.Bởi Haleh Ardebili
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3092: Description of Arts and Crafts
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Episode: 3092 Descriptions of Arts and Crafts. Today, saving arts and crafts.Bởi Margaret Culbertson
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1178: Aeronautics 1897-1910
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Episode: 1178 The Encyclopaedia Britannica before/after the Wright Brothers. Today, we see what happens when an old goal is reached.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1177: Thomas Watson
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Episode: 1177 Thomas Watson, the man on the other end of Bell's telephone. Today, we meet the man on the other end of Bell's new telephone.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1176: Ilizarov Surgery
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Episode: 1176 Ilizarov orthopedic surgery: growing new bones. Today, we straighten crooked bones.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1175: The Elizabethans
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Episode: 1175 The collapse of the Elizabethan renaissance. Today, we visit a 400-year-old revolution.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2040: The Envelope Game
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Episode: 2040 The envelope game: a common-sense-defying selection problem. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd defies common sense.Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1947: Psychological Synchronicity
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Episode: 1947 Physiological Synchronicity: mirroring emotions. Today, actor Megan Cole talks about faces and feelings.Bởi Megan Cole
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Episode: 3048 Juba II. Today, a scholar king of Africa.Bởi Richard H. Armstrong
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1174: An Intellectual Legacy
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Episode: 1174 Nature or nurture, explaining intellectual dynasties. Today, more on the matter of heredity or environment.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1173: A Sinking Automobile
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Episode: 1173 A sinking Automobile. Today, thoughts about thinking while I'm drowning.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1171: The Ignobel Prizes
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Episode: 1171 The IgNobel Prizes: At what point does satire go wrong? Today, a concern about satire.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1170: The Iatros
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Episode: 1170 A visit to an iatros -- a doctor -- in a 400 BC clinic. Today, we visit a 2400-year-old clinic.Bởi Dr. John Lienhard
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2006: Rain Shadow
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Episode: 2006 Sequim's strange blue hole in the midst of rain. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd stays dry.Bởi Dr. Andy Boyd
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2243: Organizing for Disaster
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Episode: 2243 Organizing for disaster: One place where New Orleans did it right. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, prepares for a rainy day.Bởi Michael Berryhill
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