Engines of Our Ingenuity

A KUHF Engines special project, Theater: The Drama of Ourselves, is available in its entirety here.

At work at KUHF studios with colleague Robert Cremins

The episode transcripts and audio are available at the links below.  They are also rebroadcast from time to time on KUHF.

1. “Ancient Explanations of Bird Migration,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2228 (first aired June 8, 2007): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htm
2. “Cuckoos and Cuckoldry,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2231 (first aired June 15, 2007): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2231.htm
3. “College Yiddish vs. Modern Hebrew,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2356 (first aired April 9, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2356.htm
4. “The Longest Year in History,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2364 (first aired April 23, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2364.htm
5. “Time Out of Joint,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2368 (first aired April 29, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2368.htm
6. “Two German Phrasebooks,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2373 (first aired May 13, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2373.htm
7. “Hitler’s Copyright,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2375 (first aired May 20, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2375.htm
8. “The Invention of the Paperboy,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2382 (first aired June 10, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2382.htm
9. “Roman Political Invective,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2408 (first aired August 26, 2008): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2408.htm
10. “From Texas to Central Park,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2497 (first aired May 26, 2009): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2497.htm
11. “Texas Germans,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2499 (first aired June 5, 2009): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2499.htm
12. “Wild America,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2505 (first aired June 16, 2009): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2505.htm
13. “Reading Vienna,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2531 (first aired September 1, 2009): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2531.htm
14. “Reading Baden-Powell,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2620 (first aired June 18, 2010): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2620.htm
15. “Technical English and Verbing Nouns,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2682 (first aired February 2, 2011): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2682.htm
16. “Language Death,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2723 (first aired June 29, 2011): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2723.htm
17. “The Atocha Bombing Memorial,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2725 (first aired July 6, 2011): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2725.htm
18. “The Maria Theresa Thaler,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2801 (first aired June 6, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2801.htm
19. “The Concrete Revolution,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2810 (first aired July 18, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2810.htm
20. “An Ancient Earthquake,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2813 (first aired July 25, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2813.htm
21. “Beginning Volcanology,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2816 (first aired August 1, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2816.htm
22. “The Pompeian Paradox,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2818 (first aired August 7, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2818.htm
23. “Remaking Ben-Hur,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2820 (first aired August 15, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2820.htm
24. “Hypnotic Crime,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2823 (first aired August 22, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2823.htm
25. “Cesare Lombroso,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2829 (first aired Sept 12, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2829.htm
26. “Reading Cosmo,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2831 (first aired Sept. 19, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2831.htm
27. “Wombs and Witchcraft,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2834 (first aired Oct. 3, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2834.htm
28. “Bumping into Signs,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2836 (first aired Oct. 10, 2012): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2836.htm
29. “Racial Mythologies: Günther vs. Huxley,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2881 (first aired May 8, 2013): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2881.htm
30. “The Strength Through Joy Car,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2888 (first aired May 31, 2013): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2888.htm
31. “CSI Herculaneum,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2960 (first aired July 21, 2014): http://uh.edu/engines/epi2960.htm
32. “Thomas Jefferson and the Maison Carrée of Nîmes,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2977 (first aired October 22, 2014): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2977.htm
33. “Hannibal’s Grand Strategy,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2999 (first aired March 20, 2015): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2999.htm.
34. “Archimedes to the Rescue,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3001 (first aired March 24, 2015): http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3001.htm.
35. “Juba II, The Scholar King of Africa,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3048 (first aired February 23, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3048.htm.
36. “Frankincense and Myrrh,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3052 (first aired March 8, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3052.htm.
37. “Electioneering in Ancient Rome,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3054 (first aired March 15, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3054.htm.
38. “The Truth about Ingenuity,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3056 (first aired March 22, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3056.htm.
39. “Thucydides, Democracy, and Hope” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3075 (first aired July 12, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3075.htm.
40. “The Battle of Navarino,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3077 (first aired July 19, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3077.htm.
41. “Restoring the Parthenon,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3078 (first aired July 26, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3078.htm.
42. “The First Marathon,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3080 (first aired August 2, 2016), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3080.htm.
43. “What Went Wrong on D-Day,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3129 (first aired June 6, 2017), http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3129.htm.
44. “A War of Concrete: The Mulberry Harbors and the Invasion of Normandy,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3130 (first aired June 13, 2017). http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3130.htm.
45. “Juan Pujol García: The Liar Who Helped Win D-Day,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3133 (first aired June 27, 2017). http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3133.htm.
46. “The Converging Literacies of the Digital Age,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 3195 (first aired November 13, 2018). http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3195.htm.