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.
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Jul122 days agoEpisode: 2599 The Art of Attraction: Imagery from Strange Attractors. Today, the art of attraction.
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Jul113 days agoEpisode: 1365 Colonial America, 1776: A new nation of glorious amateurs. Today, we visit Colonial America.
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Jul104 days agoEpisode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.
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Jul077 days agoEpisode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface. Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.
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Jul061 week agoEpisode: 3134 Henri Poincaré and Mathematical Monsters. Today, we get very, very kinky.
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Jul051 week agoEpisode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism. Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.
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Jul041 week agoEpisode: 3133 Juan Pujol García: the Liar Who Helped Win D-Day. Today, a great big liar saves the day.
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Jul032 weeks agoEpisode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.
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Jun302 weeks agoEpisode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
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Jun292 weeks agoEpisode: 3132 Gadgets in the American Kitchen. Today, gadgets galore.
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Jun282 weeks agoEpisode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times. Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.
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Jun272 weeks agoEpisode: 2598 Henri Poincaré, the three body problem, and chaos. Today, three bodies.
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Jun263 weeks agoEpisode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack. Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.
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Jun233 weeks agoEpisode: 1363 Man the measure -- man the meter. Today, let's ask what meters measure.
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Jun223 weeks agoEpisode: 3131 Jean Cavaillès: War Hero and Philosopher. Today, in the line of duty.
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Jun213 weeks agoEpisode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights. Today, we fly the Atlantic.
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Jun203 weeks agoEpisode: 3130 A War of Concrete: The Mulberry Harbors and the Invasion of Normandy. Today, a portable port saves the day.
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Jun194 weeks agoEpisode: 1361 NASA's Crawler Transporter: Largest land transport vehicle. Today, we ride the world's largest land vehicle.
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Jun164 weeks agoEpisode: 1360 A brief history of bathing ourselves. Today, let's bathe.
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Jun151 month agoEpisode: 2596 Golf Club Grooves: How small changes in technology can cause controversy. Today’s episode is brought to you by the letters U and V.