Dr. Andy Boyd – Houston Public Media: Recent Episodes
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Episode: 2350 Dystopia: Getting to know utopias evil twin. Today, the evils of technology.
Episode: 2338 How Skill and Chance Influence the Outcome of Games. Today, skill and chance.
Episode: 2334 Edward Bellamy: The year 2000 as envisioned in 1888. Today, Looking Backward.
Episode: 2331 A cow’s eye view: Temple Grandin and mercy for the the condemned. Today, the unspeakable.
Episode: 2327 George Dantzig, linear programing, and a curious priority question. Today, a Nobel Prize lost.
Episode: 2323 “Beam me up Scotty,” The longed-for grail of teleportation. Today, we teleport.
Episode: 2320 Tracing recent history: computer memory over three decades. Today, we get smaller.
Episode: 2316 Operations Reasearch, the invisible engineering that everyone uses and few people know. Today, the science of better.
Episode: 2312 How we finally put crews of computers to work on our desktops. Today, when is one computer not enough?
Episode: 2307 A Canadian-American icon and nature’s engineer: The Beaver. Today, scientist Andrew Boyd and nature’s engineer.
Episode: 2303 William LeMessurier corrects his error — in public. Today, scientist Andrew Boyd averts disaster.
Episode: 2301 Making sports balls: how to get from flat to round. Today, scientist Andrew Boyd makes flat into round.
Episode: 2296 Moog the man and Moog the machine: a lesson in engineering design. Today, we meet a musical engineer with guest scientist Andrew Boyd.
Episode: 2290 The Platonic “regular” solids: mathematics and divinity. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd looks at some divine shapes.
Episode: 2284 Books by the foot: the ultimate reductio ad absurdum. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd finds a new use for books.
Episode: 2237 Modeling the atom: Making quantum uncertainty reveal corporeal solidity. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd models the atom.
Episode: 2234 Spherical horses and frictionless wheels — When are we close enough to reality? Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks, “What makes a good Model?”
Episode: 2150 Scotty on Starship Enterprise: an image of an engineer. Today, we beam up with guest scientist Andrew Boyd.
Episode: 2117 The Internet of Tubes: In which a gaffe evokes the history of communication. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd and the Internet of Tubes.
Episode: 2094 Thinking inside the box: the invention of containerization. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd discusses The Box.
Episode: 2062 How much may I justly charge for my widget? Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks “what’s it worth?”
Episode: 2053 A reflection on John Cage and his silences. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd goes silent.
Episode: 2040 The envelope game: a common-sense-defying selection problem. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd defies common sense.
Episode: 2006 Sequim’s strange blue hole in the midst of rain. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd stays dry.
Episode: 1994 Encryption: abstraction in the world of practical business. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd sends secret messages.
Episode: 1979 How to process five thousand airline reservation requests in one second. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd buys plane tickets.
Episode: 1971 In which Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer race to prove Fermat’s last theorem. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd relives a race.
Episode: 1961 The Four-Color Problem — an strange old puzzle, almost resolved. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd colors maps.
Episode: 1952 The only-possible constants of nature: The only-possible us. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd looks at the grandest machine of all.
Episode: 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering renaissance thinker. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd shares a story of triumph and tragedy.
Episode: 1948 Sex, Love and Lobster Shells. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks where lobsters come from.
Episode: 1929 Wendy Carlos and Switched-On Bach — new technology, new music. Today, guest scientist Andy Boyd makes music.
Episode: 1926 Rhetoric: An ancient idea in serious need of rehabilitation. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd persuades us.
Episode: 1921 Arrow’s Paradox and third party candidates. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd votes.
Episode: 1912 Am I conscious, or do I just think I am? Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd explores how we think.
Episode: 1897 Optimization: much more than just driving to work and selling door-to-door. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd drives us to work.
Episode: 1859 Today, our guest, scientist Andrew Boyd discusses a legendary movie figure. Waiting for HAL 9000: the lure of artificial intelligence.
Episode: 1818 Leon Theremin’s remarkable music machine. Today, our guest, scientist Andrew Boyd, talks about the man who wed music to electricity.
Episode: 1748 A remarkable perception of a mathematical oddity. Today, Guest Andrew Boyd, chief scientist at the PROS organization, shares an “age-old” story about numbers.
Episode: 1716 Bounding Billies: The century-long reign of the wound-rubber golf ball. Today, our guest, operations researcher Andrew Boyd, tells about the simplest of toys, the golf ball.
Episode: 2952 Cataclysm: J Harlen Bretz and the Ice Age Floods. Today, a river runs through it.
Episode: 2947 Wildly Rich, Surprisingly Humble: The Universe and Its Building Blocks. Today, everything there is — by the numbers.
Episode: 2940 Polio and Mathematics. Today, mathematicians ask, “should we rid the world of polio?”
Episode: 2939 Getting Power Inside: Alternative Power Transmission Systems. Today, why electricity?
Episode: 2924 Not In This Universe: When the possible really isn’t. Today, we do a lot of typing.
Episode: 2923 The opossum: nature’s little sanitary engineer. Today, nature’s sanitation engineer.
Episode: 2922 Gearing up: the continuously variable transmission. Today, we change gears.
Episode: 2918 Norman Brinker and the History of Restaurant Chains. Today, one link at a time.
Episode: 2914 Charles Loring Brace and the Orphan Trains Movement. Today, for the love of children.
Episode: 2913 The price of making a commercial airline seat. Today, airline seat prices.
Episode: 2910 Something big: The world’s largest manmade enclosure. Today, something really big.
Episode: 2900 Hayek: the economist’s contributions in neuroscience and philosophy. Today, a man who crossed over.
Episode: 2898 Keynes and Hayek: The nuances of their economic perspectives. Today, how different were they?
Episode: 2895 Measuring up: How we measure, and perceive, inclines. Today, measuring “up.”
Episode: 2891 Specifics and Generalities: teaching and the problem of universals. Today, what exactly is that?
Episode: 2889 An important step toward solving the twin primes conjecture. Today, almost twins.
Episode: 2886 Not Just Gadgets: The Science of Engineering Systems. Today, beyond gadgets.
Episode: 2883 A dead salmon points the way to better brain imaging. Today, outrageous research.
Episode: 2875 Today, a profession comes of age. Pierre Fauchard, Father of Modern Dentistry.
Episode: 2872 The Stimpmeter: Golf’s Supremely Simple Maintenance Tool. Today, low tech in a high-tech game.
Episode: 2857 Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet Mathematician and Economist. Today, an economic wonder.
Episode: 2856 Torricelli’s Trumpet: The Infinite Meets the Finite. Today, the impossible.
Episode: 2853 Radio frequency identification and toll roads. Today, we ease on down the road.
Episode: 2840 Homer Hadley and Seattle’s Floating Bridges. Today, Homer Hadley's folly.
Episode: 2832 Math meets engineering: Claude-Louis Navier’s bridge. Today, building bridges.
Episode: 2826 Reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide with carbon sequestration. Today, the world's highest profile molecule.
Episode: 2802 One Track Mind: the central processing unit of a computer. Today, a one track mind.
Episode: 2789 The evolution from impact to non-impact printers. Today, we don't make an impact.
Episode: 2786 Creativity Leashed: How a new way of looking at computers got away. Today, learning from an Alto.
Episode: 2784 Environmentally Sustainable Golf Courses. Today, where the grass is always greener.
Episode: 2778 Qualia and Mary’s Black and White Room. Today, there’s something about Mary.
Episode: 2774 The Massad Family Research Center and Hospitality Industry Archives. Today, travel made easier.
Episode: 2769 Math Wars: The progressive math movement in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Today, math wars.
Episode: 2760 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement. Today, doing away with math.
Episode: 2731 Invention from Injury: The Story of Louis Braille. Today, injury sparks creativity.
Episode: 2727 Quantum Theory’s Copenhagen Interpretation and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paper. Today, we get spooky.
Episode: 2720 Project Habbakuk: Ice Aircraft Carriers and Pykrete. Today, something simple.
Episode: 2717 Kant, rationalism, empiricism, and the Critique of Pure Reason. Today, a critique of pure reason.
Epispode: 2712 Yutaka Taniyama and the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture. Today, a tragic ending.
Episode: 2709 IBM’s Watson and the aftermath of winning Jeopardy! Today, is it bigger than a bread box?
Episode: 2698 Galileo, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Vatican Library. Today, of science and scripture.
Episode: 2694 Science and the Second Industrial Revolution. Today, science, invention, and a revolution of sorts.
Episode: 2690 What the pharaohs didn’t have: appreciating modern technology. Today, to be a pharaoh.
Episode: 2686 The Story of Frank and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. Today, cheaper by the dozen.
Episode: 2680 What happens when no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes? Today, we vote for president.
Episode: 2678 Hugh Everett III: Man of Many Worlds. Today, a tragedy in at least one universe.
Episode: 2668 Learning about quilting at the Houston International Quilt Festival. Today, a stitch in time.
Episode: 2665 Intellectual vigilance: when obvious isn’t obvious. Today, the people on the bus.
Episode: 2660 Computers, Brains, and the Church-Turing Thesis. Today, inside the machine.
Episode: 2659 The influence of role models in shaping creative minds. Today, possibilities.
Episode: 2856 Torricelli’s Trumpet: The Infinite Meets the Finite. Today, the impossible.