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这个节目由美国休斯顿公共广播和休斯顿大学工程学院制作，从1988到2014共制作3000
期，通过历史资料介绍
对人类文明产生巨大影响的科学理论、工程技术、人文思想。。。。从计算机到核潜艇
，从外科手术到艺术流派，anything you can think of , you can find an episode
about it，more or less :)。一期节目通常3－4分钟适合attention span较短的成
年人，especially小孩子。同时还有相应的文字和图片配套，对应的参考资料。 非常
不错liberal education 的材料。我个人也觉得这是个不错的旅游companion:)
在美国的朋友很多广播电台carry这个program, 外地的也可以通过互联网听，or
podcast from ipad, ipod,iphone.
Topic examples of recent episode:
2940 Polio and Mathematics
2941 NASA's Shuttle Carrier Airplane (SCA), a last piggy-back airplane,
retires
2942 Hilton Hotels in Space
2943 Recording Before Electricity
2944 The Father of Quantum Theory, The Perseverance of a Scientist Facing
Multiple Tragedies
2945 The Once Great Port of New York
2946 Man or Monster? The Legend of the Golem and the Age of Technology
2947 Wildly Rich, Surprisingly Humble: The Universe and Its Building Blocks
2948 Pit Stop Optimization
2949 Who Invented the Microphone?
2950 Oil under the sea: the evolution of offshore drilling for gas and oil
2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial
2952 Cataclysm: J Harlen Bretz and the Ice Age Floods
这个节目由美国休斯顿公共广播和休斯顿大学工程学院制作，从1988到2014共制作3000
期，通过历史资料介绍
对人类文明产生巨大影响的科学理论、工程技术、人文思想。。。。从计算机到核潜艇
，从外科手术到艺术流派，anything you can think of , you can find an episode
about it，more or less :)。一期节目通常3－4分钟适合attention span较短的成
年人，especially小孩子。同时还有相应的文字和图片配套，对应的参考资料。 非常
不错liberal education 的材料。我个人也觉得这是个不错的旅游companion:)
在美国的朋友很多广播电台carry这个program, 外地的也可以通过互联网听，or
podcast from ipad, ipod,iphone.
Topic examples of recent episode:
2940 Polio and Mathematics
2941 NASA's Shuttle Carrier Airplane (SCA), a last piggy-back airplane,
retires
2942 Hilton Hotels in Space
2943 Recording Before Electricity
2944 The Father of Quantum Theory, The Perseverance of a Scientist Facing
Multiple Tragedies
2945 The Once Great Port of New York
2946 Man or Monster? The Legend of the Golem and the Age of Technology
2947 Wildly Rich, Surprisingly Humble: The Universe and Its Building Blocks
2948 Pit Stop Optimization
2949 Who Invented the Microphone?
2950 Oil under the sea: the evolution of offshore drilling for gas and oil
2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial
2952 Cataclysm: J Harlen Bretz and the Ice Age Floods
