Engines of Our Ingenuity

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.

Episode: 2834 Wombs and Witchcraft: Edward Jorden's Suffocation of the Mother (1603).  Today, wombs and witchcraft.

Episode: 1495 The new technological elite: chauffeurs then, computer experts today.  Today, we learn to drive our own cars -- and manage our own computers.

Episode: 1494 The strange persistence of X-ray hair removal.  Today, we kill ourselves to remove hair.

Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris.  Today, necessity, invention, and the Siege of Paris.

Episode: 1491 In which business schools study a leaderless orchestra.  Today, we have no leader.

Episode: 2547 Changing views on charging interest throughout history.  Today, interest.

Episode: 2831 Reading the Long History of Cosmopolitan Magazine.  Today, a great American magazine.

Episode: 2674 The Royal Navy Surgeon; Taking Medicine to Sea in the Age of Sail.  Today, the Royal Navy Surgeon.

Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well.  Today, we talk about germs.