Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1575: Fields and Continua
Posted on · Episode: 1575 Fields and continua: A secret art of engineering. Today, a look at a secret abstraction.
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Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1573: Donatello In Time
Posted on · Episode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1568: The Age of the Earth
Posted on · Episode: 1568 Lord Kelvin’s miscalculation of the age of the earth. Today, a Victorian scientist miscalculates the age of the earth.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1576: Christopher Wren, Physician
Posted on · Episode: 1576 Christopher Wren: a great architect first learns medicine. Today, an unexpected student of medicine.
Houston Matters
New Book Tells The Story Of Developing An Artificial Heart
Posted on · Mimi Swartz discusses her book Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1549: Comptes Rendus, 1836
Posted on · Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide. Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.
Houston Matters
NASA’s Day In The Sun: Probe Takes Us Closer Than Ever To Our Star
Posted on · David Alexander of the Rice Space Institutes tells Houston Matters about the new Parker Solar Probe, which will travel within 3.8 million miles of the sun.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1546: Max Jakob
Posted on · Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land. Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.
Houston Matters
Dealing With Vicarious Trauma: When Someone Else’s Experience Becomes Your Own
Posted on · An upcoming Houston workshop addresses how interpreters often suffer symptoms of trauma after working with clients who've actually experienced it.
News
Researchers Find Signs of Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Harvey Flooding Samples
Posted on · A new study gives scientists a better understanding of how the storm contaminated homes and bayous
Houston Matters
Digging For Dinosaurs In Texas: What’s Happening In The World Of Paleontology?
Posted on · David Temple of the HMNS talks about paleontology in Texas.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1542: Francis Bacon
Posted on · Episode: 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda. Today, science tries to find its way.
Houston Matters
How Batman Led To A Career In Astronomy
Posted on · James Wooten from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how an episode of the 60's Batman TV series led him to a life in astronomy.
Houston Matters
What Researchers Found On Hours And Hours Of Audio Tapes From NASA’s Apollo Missions
Posted on · Dr. John Hansen and his team of researchers from UT-Dallas pored through countless hours of tapes from NASA’s archives with much more than preserving history in mind.
Houston Matters
Houston Researcher Studies Zealandia — The (Mostly) Underwater Continent
Posted on · A Rice University professor was among a group of researchers studying a massive landmass submerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean.