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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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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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1304: Learning What Makes Musical Tones
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Episode: 1304 In which we learn how musical pitches are formed. Today, we learn what makes a musical tone.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2401: The World at Our Fingertips
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Episode: 2401 Today, the world at our fingertips. The World At Our Fingertips: From Books to the World Wide Web.Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3304: An American Encyclopedia
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Episode: 3304 Today, an encyclopedia and a new nation. Thomas Dobson publishes a multi-volume encyclopedia in the newly independent United States.Autor: Margaret Culbertson
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2514: Linear Algebra and Netflix
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Episode: 2514 Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about math and your movie choice. How Netflix uses linear algebra to determine what movies you will like best.Autor: Dr. Krešimir Josić
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1303: Transit of Venus
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Episode: 1303 Chasing the transit of Venus over the tundra. Today, we chase a mini-eclipse.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1302: Francois Marcet’s Steam Globe
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Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet's steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1301: The Boy Mechanic
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Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger. Today, a boy's world, a century ago.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1300: Daniel Fahrenheit
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Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale. Today, we invent the thermometer.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2399: Engineering Freeways
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Episode: 2399 The Many Facets of Engineering a Freeway. Today, stuck in traffic.Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2951: Going To Sea
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Episode: 2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial. Today, we go to sea.Autor: Richard Willson
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2367: Georgie Clark
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Episode: 2367 Georgie Clark and the invention of white-water rafting. Today, let's go whitewater rafting.Autor: Roger Kaza
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1299: Stability of Pagodas
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Episode: 1299 The improbable earth-quakeproof Japanese pagoda. Today, pagodas and earthquakes.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1298: Edward Ritchie
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Episode: 1298 Edward Ritchie: building instruments and shaping education. Today, let's watch machines shape education -- and invention.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1297: Verea’s Calculating Machine
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Episode: 1297 Ramon Verea's calculating machine: inventing to make a point. Today, invention serves an unexpected purpose.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1296: Carnegie Looks at Watt
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Episode: 1296 In which Andrew Carnegie contemplates James Watt. Today, Andrew Carnegie looks at James Watt.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2397: Computers and Tennis
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Episode: 2397 How Computers are Helping Officiate Tennis Matches. Today, where did that ball bounce?Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2368: Time Out of Joint
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Episode: 2368 In which Shakespeare and Cervantes die on the same day, but eleven days apart. Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about puzzles in chronology.Autor: Richard H. Armstrong
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3244: Bias in Face Recognition Software
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Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.Autor: Karen Fang
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1295: Pins
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Episode: 1295 The lowly, but not-so-simple, dressmaker's pin. Today, let's make pins.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1294: Unneeded Clocks
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Episode: 1294 The clock as preparation for modern science. Today, clocks tell us more than just the time of day.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1293: What We Don’t See at First
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Episode: 1293 Some technology that we don't see when we first look. Today, some technologies we don't see when we first look.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1292: Alchemy and Modern Science
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Episode: 1292 Alchemy and modern science: how much magic should we accept? Today, old magic finds a place in modern science.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2393: Greener Computing
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Episode: 2393 What Can Be Done About the Energy Consumed by Computers? Today, greener computing.Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2768: Cooking By Radio
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Episode: 2768 Percy Spencer and the microwave oven. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker considers the Microwave Oven.Autor: Fitz Walker
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3303: Wood Graining
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Episode: 3303 Painting wood grain to express alternate realities. Today, painting the swirls of wood grain.Autor: Margaret Culbertson
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1291: Sheet Music
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Episode: 1291 In which sheet music offers a record of our country. Today, America's story spins out in the songs we sing.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1290: Risk and Vocation
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Episode: 1290 Risk and vocation: when smart people look for safe lives. Today, we teach our best and brightest to avoid risk.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1289: Ship Waste Disposal
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Episode: 1289 Those Vulgar Tubes: human waste disposal aboard old ships. Today, we try to keep ships clean.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1288: At Risk
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Episode: 1288 Instability, self-control, and the metaphor of flight. Today, flight shapes yet another metaphor.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2390: Lloyd Hall
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Episode: 2390 Lloyd Hall: Food Chemistry Engineer. Today, we engineer food.Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3243: The Water Illusion Machine
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Episode: 3243 Hollywood's Heroic Water FX. Today, water effects.Autor: Karen Fang
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2353: In C
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Episode: 2353 Reflections on -- or in -- the key of C. Today, French hornist Roger Kaza plays in C.Autor: Roger Kaza
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1287: Faster Than Sound
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Episode: 1287 Transonic flight: piercing the sound barrier. Today, the sound barrier.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1286: The Prehistory of Motorcycles
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Episode: 1286 A steam-powered motorcycle, invented well before its time. Today, the motorcycle rides out of the Civil War.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1285: Carriages
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Episode: 1285 Carriages: A forgotten technology. Today, let's ride a gig, or a hack, or a phaeton.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1284: Mikhail Goldshtik
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Episode: 1284 Mikhail Goldshtik: A death and a beginning. Today, a creative legacy.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2387: Plastics
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Episode: 2387 Recycling Plastics. Today, just one word.Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1983: Inventing the Newspaper
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Episode: 1983 Inventing the newspaper in seventeenth-century England. Today, our guest, historian Cathy Patterson reports on the invention of the newspaper.Autor: Catherine Patterson
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2502: Computer Proofs
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Episode: 2502 Computer assisted proofs: How machines extend our mind's reach. Today, let's ask how computers help us see mathematical truths.Autor: Dr. Krešimir Josić
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1282: Window Glass
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Episode: 1282 The development of the seemingly uncomplicated window pane. Today, we learn to make window panes.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1281: A Window on the Huguenots
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Episode: 1281 An old religious tract provides a window upon the Huguenots. Today, an old book and a new look at creativity and dissent.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1280: Visual Display of Information
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Episode: 1280 On making data tell their story. Today, let's figure out how to plot a graph.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1279: Kater’s Applied Mechanics
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Episode: 1279 Two Newtons, an old mechanics text, and the fight against slavery. Today, a moving bit of marginalia.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2384: Sway
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Episode: 2384 Swaying wooden roller coasters. Today, we sway.Autor: Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2487: Von Neuman, Computers, and Brains
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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.Autor: Dr. Krešimir Josić
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2143: Emma Lazarus
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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.Autor: Dorothy Baker
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1278: Quonset Huts
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Episode: 1278 The Quonset hut: a design with remarkable staying power. Today, we build an instant house.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1277: Railroads in Winter
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Episode: 1277 Railroads in winter: finding our way through the snow. Today, rails and snow.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1276: A Feast of Lights
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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.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1275: An Old Company Town
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Episode: 1275 Merthyr Tydfil, a window into the squalid conditions after the Industrial Revolution. Today, let's visit Merthyr Tydfil.Autor: Dr. John Lienhard
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