Dr. Andy Boyd – Houston Public Media

Episode: 2585 The technology of timing races. Today, who won that race?

Episode: 2942 Hilton Hotels in Space. Today, we reach for the stars.

Episode: 2583 Children and their Goals. Today, president, pope, astronaut.

Episode: 2578 The Wonders of Water Towers. Today, water flows downhill.

Episode: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine? Today, a turn of the screw.

Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers. Today, some numbers for the ages.

Episode: 2572 Melville and Anna Bissell and the Carpet Sweeper. Today, a husband and wife engineer success.

Episode: 2570 Celebrating Human Ingenuity. Today, a story in two parts.

Episode: 2563 The Prolific Isaac Asimov. Today, science or fiction?

Episode: 2562 Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics. Today, a book that helped educate the world.

Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!

Episode: 2556 Euclid’s Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.

Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.

Episode: 2554 The Creativity of Slogans and Jingles. Today, “think different.”

Episode: 2552 Frederick the Great, Patron of the Arts. Today, what made Frederick great?

Episode: 2550 Could Napoleon have proved Napoleon’s Theorem? Today, did he, or didn’t he?

Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.

Episode: 3037 Carol of the Bells. Today, a Christmas carol.

Episode: 2547 Changing views on charging interest throughout history. Today, interest.

Episode: 2545 Game Maker Milton Bradley. Today, a game maker.

Episode: 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design. Today, a grid for the ages.

Episode: 2538 Engineering Cheese Through the Millenia. Today, say “cheese.”

Episode: 2535 The base of a number system: times tables and memorization. Today, go forth and multiply.

Episode: 2533 On Table Legs and Flat Surfaces. Today, the power of three.

Episode: 2529 Comparing Fingerprints: What’s Involved and What can go Wrong. Today, who dunnit?

Episode: 2527 Alphonse Bertillon: Measuring the Man. Today, the measure of a man.

Episode: 2523 Georges-Eugene Haussmann Reshapes Paris. Today, a city redone.

Episode: 2520 Hybrid Electric Car Technology. Today, we hit the brakes.

Episode: 2517 Rebecca Clarke: Violist, Composer, Woman. Today, a woman in conflict.

Episode: 2513 The Importance of Teachers in Shaping our Lives. Today, remembering our teachers.

Episode: 2510 Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.

Episode: 2507 The Unsung Engineer: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Today, celebrating the mechanical arts.

Episode: 2503 Story-Teller Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone. Today, a story — submitted for your approval.

Episode: 2501 Nietzsche, Strauss, Kubrick, and a Trilogy of Metaphor. Today, a story — in three parts.

Episode: 3329 Cognitive Decline as We Age. Today, a well-tempered mind.

Episode: 3327 Different Methods of Pasteurization in Different Countries. Today, an experiment.

Episode: 2495 Creativity Within Limits: Rules as a Source of Creativity. Today, bounded creativity.

Episode: 3322 Some Thoughts on the Future of High-Speed Rail. Today, very fast trains.

Episode: 2493 Child’s Play: the role of play in education. Today, child’s play.