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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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Episode: 3305 An inland shipping port expands our vision of seaports. Today, an inland seaport.
Episode: 2414 Using numbers in baseball and business. Today, intuition, or numbers.
Episode: 2553 Emergence and complexity in virtual and living systems. Today, let's talks about emergence.
Episode: 2411 Hudson's Bay Company. Today, fur traders and far-off borders.
Episode: 1317 The first iron-smelting in Colonial America: Hammersmith on the Saugus. Today, we smelt the first American iron.
Episode: 1316 Parachutes: for fun or for survival? Today, let's fall safely out of the sky.
Episode: 1315 Chlorella: the day we decided not to eat algae burgers. Today, we try to create a new food.
Episode: 1314 Amistad, art and revolution: artists join the fight for freedom. Today, art and slavery.
Episode: 2412 Disney's Spaceship Earth: Past and Future Communication. Today, the future — one step at a time.
Episode: 2770 Developing the P-51 Mustang fighter. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker, remembers the P-51 Mustang.
Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.
Episode: 1313 Rotation: of coins, racquetballs, ballet dancers, and more. Today, let's think about rotation.
Episode: 1312 Crossing Australia -- from nine months to six minutes. Today, we cross Australia.
Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let's talk about monks and waterwheels.
Episode: 1310 Redeeming math and abstraction in our schools. Today, we ask why American math and science scores are slipping.
Episode: 2406 The Pigeonhole Principle. Today, pigeons and pigeonholes.
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: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.
Episode: 2014 Boiling bubbles and fizzing bubbles: So alike, so different! Today, bubbles in soda and bubbles in teakettles.
Episode: 1309 The DH-4: a forgotten and terribly influential WW-I warplane. Today, America tries to get off the ground in WW-I.
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