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: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.Par Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 1313 Rotation: of coins, racquetballs, ballet dancers, and more. Today, let's think about rotation.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1312 Crossing Australia -- from nine months to six minutes. Today, we cross Australia.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let's talk about monks and waterwheels.Par 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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2406 The Pigeonhole Principle. Today, pigeons and pigeonholes.Par 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.Par Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.Par 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.Par 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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1308 In which Charles Dellschau draws secret airships.Today, a Texas immigrant dreams and draws flight.Par 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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2403 Cookbook. Today, tasty treats.Par 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.Par 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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2669 Plants and greens associated with the Christmas Season. Today, Christmas greenery.Par Roger Kaza
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Episode: 1306 Voices from Adelaide; Horace Lamb and Andrew Thomas on Mir. Today, a 120-year journey into space.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1305 Setting concert pitch -- the elusive 440 A. Today, we set the pitch of a concert A.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1304 In which we learn how musical pitches are formed. Today, we learn what makes a musical tone.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2401 Today, the world at our fingertips. The World At Our Fingertips: From Books to the World Wide Web.Par Dr. Andy Boyd
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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.Par Margaret Culbertson
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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.Par Dr. Krešimir Josić
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Episode: 1303 Chasing the transit of Venus over the tundra. Today, we chase a mini-eclipse.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet's steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger. Today, a boy's world, a century ago.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale. Today, we invent the thermometer.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2399 The Many Facets of Engineering a Freeway. Today, stuck in traffic.Par Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial. Today, we go to sea.Par Richard Willson
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Episode: 2367 Georgie Clark and the invention of white-water rafting. Today, let's go whitewater rafting.Par Roger Kaza
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Episode: 1299 The improbable earth-quakeproof Japanese pagoda. Today, pagodas and earthquakes.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1298 Edward Ritchie: building instruments and shaping education. Today, let's watch machines shape education -- and invention.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1297 Ramon Verea's calculating machine: inventing to make a point. Today, invention serves an unexpected purpose.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1296 In which Andrew Carnegie contemplates James Watt. Today, Andrew Carnegie looks at James Watt.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2397 How Computers are Helping Officiate Tennis Matches. Today, where did that ball bounce?Par Dr. Andy Boyd
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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.Par Richard H. Armstrong
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Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.Par Karen Fang
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Episode: 1295 The lowly, but not-so-simple, dressmaker's pin. Today, let's make pins.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1294 The clock as preparation for modern science. Today, clocks tell us more than just the time of day.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2393 What Can Be Done About the Energy Consumed by Computers? Today, greener computing.Par Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 2768 Percy Spencer and the microwave oven. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker considers the Microwave Oven.Par Fitz Walker
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Episode: 3303 Painting wood grain to express alternate realities. Today, painting the swirls of wood grain.Par Margaret Culbertson
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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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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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.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1289 Those Vulgar Tubes: human waste disposal aboard old ships. Today, we try to keep ships clean.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 1288 Instability, self-control, and the metaphor of flight. Today, flight shapes yet another metaphor.Par Dr. John Lienhard
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Episode: 2390 Lloyd Hall: Food Chemistry Engineer. Today, we engineer food.Par Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 3243 Hollywood's Heroic Water FX. Today, water effects.Par Karen Fang
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Episode: 2353 Reflections on -- or in -- the key of C. Today, French hornist Roger Kaza plays in C.Par Roger Kaza
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