Episode: 1286 A steam-powered motorcycle, invented well before its time. Today, the motorcycle rides out of the Civil War.
Episode: 1285 Carriages: A forgotten technology. Today, let's ride a gig, or a hack, or a phaeton.
Episode: 1284 Mikhail Goldshtik: A death and a beginning. Today, a creative legacy.
Episode: 2387 Recycling Plastics. Today, just one word.
Episode: 1983 Inventing the newspaper in seventeenth-century England. Today, our guest, historian Cathy Patterson reports on the invention of the newspaper.
Episode: 2502 Computer assisted proofs: How machines extend our mind's reach. Today, let's ask how computers help us see mathematical truths.
Episode: 1282 The development of the seemingly uncomplicated window pane. Today, we learn to make window panes.
Episode: 1281 An old religious tract provides a window upon the Huguenots. Today, an old book and a new look at creativity and dissent.
Episode: 1280 On making data tell their story. Today, let's figure out how to plot a graph.
Episode: 1279 Two Newtons, an old mechanics text, and the fight against slavery. Today, a moving bit of marginalia.
Episode: 2384 Swaying wooden roller coasters. Today, we sway.
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.
Episode: 2143 In which Emma Lazarus reinvents the Statue of Liberty. Today, UH scholar Dorothy Baker tells us about Emma Lazarus.
Episode: 1278 The Quonset hut: a design with remarkable staying power. Today, we build an instant house.
Episode: 1277 Railroads in winter: finding our way through the snow. Today, rails and snow.
Episode: 1276 In which the art leads the mind how to cast light on nature. Today, light calls up the creative muse.
Episode: 1275 Merthyr Tydfil, a window into the squalid conditions after the Industrial Revolution. Today, let's visit Merthyr Tydfil.
Episode: 2361 Making ethanol from cellulose. Today, we make moonshine.
Episode: 2279 In which medical people learn how to save babies on the boardwalk. Today, our guest, medical historian Julie Anderson takes us to see premature babies at carnival sideshows.
Episode: 2356 Hebrew and Yiddish struggle for ascendancy after WW-II. Today, scholar Richard Armstrong considers the world of language textbooks