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: 1332 Moment of inertia, secrecy, and satellite stability. Today, government secrecy sabotages an early satellite.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1331 The Mississippi and Mark Twain's time warp. Today, a River in 1883.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1330 Electric lights in the 80 years before Edison. Today, we go looking for the first electric lights.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1329 16th Century scientist, Christiaan Huygens, looks for alien life. Today, an old inquiry into life on other planets.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2423 What's New? A Look at What it Means to be New. Today, what's new?Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2373 The Phrasebook: A Dangerous Invention. Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about German phrasebooks.Door Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 3307 A Tool to Curb Pride: Don’t Believe Your Reviews. Today, A Tool to Curb Pride.Door Megan Cole
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Episode: 1328 The medieval character of the wild West. Today, the wild West holds up a mirror to medieval life.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1327 Electricity in Everyday Life in 1904. Today, let's look for parallels.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1326 Lift-off: Reflections on the launch of NASA Flight STS-91. Today, we all count 3-2-1.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1325 The day Mulholland's St. Francis Dam broke. Today, an almost-forgotten catastrophe.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2422 John Muir, Naturalist and Engineer. Today, an unlikely engineer.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.Door Karen Fang
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Episode: 2838 The World of Small Dimensions; Nano-Dimensions and Pico-Times. Today, we explore Small.Door Haleh Ardebili
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Episode: 1324 C rations: Armies trying to travel on their stomachs. Today, an army tries to travel on its stomach.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1323 Fleming, the light bulb, and the vacuum tube. Today, an analogy changes our world.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1322 Five college degrees in six years: What does it mean? Today, some thoughts about beating the system.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1321 A modern solar collector, a century before its time. Today, an idea whose time had not yet come.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2418 Quantifying the chance of losing at casino games. Today, luck and Las Vegas.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3235 Gender, labor history, and the devaluation of film editing. Today, the mother of all film editors.Door Karen Fang
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Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories. Today, we visit Herodotus.Door Haleh Ardebili
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Episode: 1320 Today, we wonder where to look for our new widget. Intellectual misdirection: looking inside and outside our heads for knowledge.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1319 Vannevar Bush and the great Rockefeller Differential Analyzer. Today, a eulogy for a machine.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1318 Three-field crop rotation and the origins of Western technology. Today, putting horses to work proves harder than we might think.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 3305 An inland shipping port expands our vision of seaports. Today, an inland seaport.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2414 Using numbers in baseball and business. Today, intuition, or numbers.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2553 Emergence and complexity in virtual and living systems. Today, let's talks about emergence.Door Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 2411 Hudson's Bay Company. Today, fur traders and far-off borders.Door Roger Kaza
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Episode: 1317 The first iron-smelting in Colonial America: Hammersmith on the Saugus. Today, we smelt the first American iron.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1316 Parachutes: for fun or for survival? Today, let's fall safely out of the sky.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1315 Chlorella: the day we decided not to eat algae burgers. Today, we try to create a new food.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1314 Amistad, art and revolution: artists join the fight for freedom. Today, art and slavery.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2412 Disney's Spaceship Earth: Past and Future Communication. Today, the future — one step at a time.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2770 Developing the P-51 Mustang fighter. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker, remembers the P-51 Mustang.Door Fitz Walker
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Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.Door Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 1313 Rotation: of coins, racquetballs, ballet dancers, and more. Today, let's think about rotation.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1312 Crossing Australia -- from nine months to six minutes. Today, we cross Australia.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let's talk about monks and waterwheels.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1310 Redeeming math and abstraction in our schools. Today, we ask why American math and science scores are slipping.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2406 The Pigeonhole Principle. Today, pigeons and pigeonholes.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2364 46 BC: In which Julius Caesar creates the longest year. Today, UH scholar Richard Armstrong tells us about the longest year in history.Door Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2014 Boiling bubbles and fizzing bubbles: So alike, so different! Today, bubbles in soda and bubbles in teakettles.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1309 The DH-4: a forgotten and terribly influential WW-I warplane. Today, America tries to get off the ground in WW-I.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1308 In which Charles Dellschau draws secret airships.Today, a Texas immigrant dreams and draws flight.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1307 Pendulum clock escapement: science and technology merging. Today, we attend the wedding of science and technology.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2403 Cookbook. Today, tasty treats.Door Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Sorting through a box the other day, I found old toys -- a lead soldier, a stuffed dog, a set of blocks.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2039 In which we experience quiet on the Western Front. Today, it's quiet on the Western Front.Door Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2669 Plants and greens associated with the Christmas Season. Today, Christmas greenery.Door Roger Kaza
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