Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 3350 Today honoring a special group of women scientists. Pickering’s Harem.

Episode: 3351 The curious struggle of the Crossbow. History is full of instances where armies cling to outmoded weapons.

Episode: 1522 A 1950 prediction of technology in the year 2000. Today, we go fifty years into the future.

Episode: 1521 John P. Parker, slave, freedom-fighter, inventor, and businessman. Today, we follow a slave out of slavery.

Episode: 1520 In which automobile makers gradually learn aerodynamics. Today, aerodynamics and automobiles.

Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.

Episode: 2862 Randomness out of Nothingness. Today, let's talk about how to pick random numbers out of thin air.

Episode: 3349 The Inhuman Distances of the Speed of Light. Today, inhuman distances.

Episode: 1519 Learning to acquire knowledge and create it at the same time. Today, we wonder where knowledge comes from.

Episode: 1518 A concern about computers and the redefinition of reality. Today, we try to tell fact from fiction.

Episode: 1517 The very odd bridge that Roebling almost built. Today, a strange bridge.

Episode: 1516 In which we must save the lore as well as the plants. Today, we have to save more than the endangered plants.

Episode: 2554 The Creativity of Slogans and Jingles. Today, "think different."

Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri. Today, drawing the frontier.

Episode: 2881 Racial Mythologies: Hans Günther vs. Julian Huxley on the Concept of Race. Today, poison in the library.

Episode: 1515 The would-be discovery of oxygen and scientific revolution. Today, let's try to find out who discovered oxygen.

Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.

Episode: 1513 The Accidental Creationist: In which science changes with the telling of it. Today, the problem of telling about science.

Episode: 1512 The corner store: a retail outlet that is lost but not forgotten. Today, let's buy candy at the corner store.

Episode: 2552 Frederick the Great, Patron of the Arts. Today, what made Frederick great?

Episode: 2836 Bumping into Signs: Emergent Semiotic Spaces. Today, signs of the times.

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.

Episode: 1511 In which the lotus blossom gives a lesson in engineering design. Today, lotus petals and high-tech.

Episode: 1510 Thomas Sopwith's hundredth birthday. Today, we meet the oldest airplane designer.

Episode: 1509 Late 18th century competition among roads, canals and railways. Today, we look at roads, canals, and railways.

Episode: 1508 The alchemists and chemistry before the middle 19th century. Today, we remember alchemy.

Episode: 2550 Could Napoleon have proved Napoleon's Theorem? Today, did he, or didn't he?

Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.

Episode: 1856 Form and feeling, a necessary partnership. Today, our guest. Seattle actor Megan Cole, considers a necessary partnership.

Episode: 1507 Rediscovering lighter-than-air flight. Today, do you suppose you'll ever get to ride in a dirigible?

Episode: 1506 The invisible invention of the clock. Today, we look for the first mechanical clock.

Episode: 1503 The second generation of women fliers comes to maturity. Today, a new generation of women fliers.

Episode: 1502 In which the temptress Moon leads calendar-makers astray. Today, the moon deceives us.

Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.

Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.

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.

Episode: 1501 The orientation of continents determines their development. Today, the advantage of being horizontal.

Episode: 1500 1500th episode and 2000 AD: A poor time to summarize. Today, we reach a landmark.

Episode: 1499 Domestic animals: A tricky marriage between human and beast. Today, we try to domesticate a wild animal.

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.

Episode: 1760 The Christmas Lectures: Michael Faraday's Gift to children. Today, the Christmas Lectures.

Episode: 3348 The unspoken binding tissue of Christmas – and of Hanukkah. Today, a Merry Christmas to all.

Episode: 3037 Carol of the Bells. Today, a Christmas carol.

Episode: 3347 My metaphor for the academic life: The Circus. Today, we welcome new faculty.

Episode: 1498 How the In which we try to jump as high as a flea. Today, can you jump as high as a flea?

Episode: 1497 The rise of Paul Bunyan's radical double-bitted axe. Today, we learn to use a new axe.

Episode: 1496 Mrs. Greenhow, the first great Confederate spy. Today, we meet a Confederate spy.

Episode: 2548 INFORMS and the mathematics of problem solving. Today, strange bedfellows.

Episode: 2817 Where do creative ideas come from? Today, let's talk about creativity.