Category: Tomorrow

Episode: 2514 Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about math and your movie choice.  How Netflix uses linear algebra to determine what movies you will like best.

Episode: 1303 Chasing the transit of Venus over the tundra.  Today, we chase a mini-eclipse.

Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet's steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure.  Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.

Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger.  Today, a boy's world, a century ago.

Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale.  Today, we invent the thermometer.

Episode: 2399 The Many Facets of Engineering a Freeway.  Today, stuck in traffic.

Episode: 2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial.  Today, we go to sea.

Episode: 2367 Georgie Clark and the invention of white-water rafting.  Today, let's go whitewater rafting.

Episode: 1299 The improbable earth-quakeproof Japanese pagoda.  Today, pagodas and earthquakes.

Episode: 1298 Edward Ritchie: building instruments and shaping education.  Today, let's watch machines shape education -- and invention.