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Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot, a new podcast from Houston Public Media. Listen Here.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2267: Thomas Harriot

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 17, 2022 · Episode: 2267 Thomas Harriot, England’s Galileo. Today, England’s Galileo.

Tags 9th Earl of Northumberland algebra Algonquin Aristotelian science astronomy Copernicus galileo geometry Henry Percy Moon surface optics Roanoke Colony Snell's Law sunspots symbolic mathematics telescopes The New World Thomas Harriot VIrginia Walter Ralegh Walter Raliegh

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2252: Erwin S Ferry

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 20, 2022 · Episode: 2252 Ervin S. Ferry and the persistence of illumination. Today, the persistence of light.

Tags automobile torpedo engineering Ervin S. Ferry Ferry-Porter Law of critical fusion Gyrodynamics Gyroscope gyroscopic control intrumentation laboratory measurement ophthalmology optics optometry persistence of sight Purdue University quantum mechanics Uppsala vision

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To see this weekend’s Perseid meteor shower, get out of Houston and set an early alarm

Joshua Zinn / Craig Cohen

Posted on August 10, 2023 · We discuss where and how to view the annual meteor shower and other astronomical phenomena with Dr. Carolyn Sumners of the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Tags astronomy Carolyn Sumners craig cohen houston museum of natural science Houston sky meteor shower Perseid Meteor Shower Perseids Saturn space

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Travis Scott performing in Houston (Aug. 10, 2023)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on August 10, 2023 · On Thursday's show: We learn about mixed reactions to the news that Travis Scott plans to perform in Houston this fall for the first time since the fatal disaster at his Astroworld music festival nearly two years ago.

Tags Amy Weinland Daughters astronomy Astroworld Festival books Carolyn Sumners comic book culture comic book movies comic books Dear Dana facebook handwritten letters hmns meteor shower Perseid Meteor Shower space travis scott

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2746: Stereotomy

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 5, 2023 · Episode: 2746 Stereotomy, the mason’s art of cutting stone in three dimensions. Today, I’ll bet you never heard of a trumpet squinch.

Tags architecture geometry masonry mathematics medieval cathedral building stereotomy stone cutting trumpet squinch

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity (Extended Episode) – Music For a While

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 25, 2023 · This special, one-hour Engines episode explores the effect of music in our lives. In it, let us explore the place of music in our lives. Let us see how it creates calm in our hurried existence – how it opens windows into understanding. Let us trace its action in our lives, both in the way […]

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