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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2388: Inventing the Hyperlink

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 31, 2022 · Episode: 2388 In which Paul Otlet invents the hyperlink, and almost invents the Internet. Today, we invent the hyperlink.

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Town Square

Remembering the Holocaust

Jennifer Altheide

Posted on September 16, 2022 · Ken Burns discusses his latest documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust” and experts weigh in on the importance of knowing our history

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2313: Atlantropa

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 9, 2022 · Episode: 2313 Herman Sörgel’s Atlantropa project: Lebensraum from a lowered Mediterranean. Today, we rewrite geography.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2309: Broken Brushes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 5, 2022 · Episode: 2309 Today, broken brushes. Brushes broken by people whose eyes will not see.

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Jacob Eizenbach, Holocaust Survivor

Houston Matters

Holocaust Survivor Warns The Dangers Of Bigotry Are Still With Us

Abner Fletcher

Posted on February 11, 2019 · Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, who lost most of family in the Holocaust, shares his story.

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Houston Matters

Stolen Paintings From Nazi Germany Reinterpreted As Body Art

Abner Fletcher

Posted on June 8, 2018 · The latest Artwork collaboration from Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray involves Spector reimagining pre-19th century paintings onto the human body,

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Tek Wilson as Winifred in Alva Hascall's play Winifred.

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Winifred: Wagner, The Nazis And The Woman Who Knew Hitler

St.John Flynn

Posted on May 20, 2016 · Theater LaB Houston presents a new play about Winifred Wagner, a complex historical figure.

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The origins of some well-known superstitions, like Friday the 13th

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2409: Remembering What We Know

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Posted on November 20, 2022 · Episode: 2409 Struggling to keep our grip on the past as we move from books to the Internet. Today, we struggle to remember what we once knew.

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How one book sparked the great environmental awakening of the 1960s and 70s

Michael Hagerty

Posted on November 4, 2022 · Rice University historian and author Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to many of the people who helped galvanize the environmentalist movement in his book Silent Spring Revolution.

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