Today let's talk about ceremony and technology.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. M y grandmother to tell me that if I burned my finger, I should dip it in a cup of tea. She knew that, long before doctors knew anything about the healing power of the tannic acid in tea. Now my grandmother was a fine intelligent woman, but she didn't know organic chemistry. The art of Japanese Samurai sword making is like that.