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duty cycle
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle. Episode 48 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phra...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
dross
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This podcast is aiming to avoid being aural dross. This is episode 42 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
detent
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Let's have a détente over detents.

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
sparging
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
autoclave
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
azeotrope
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
solder
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
APLHGR
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
isomer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How are isomers like ice cream?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
circumscribe
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Trying not to talk in circles here.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
orthogonal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
ephemerides
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
viscoelasticity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
inclinometer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
sensitivity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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When you're almost done designing something, do you start to feel very sensitive?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
impedance
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Don't you dare impede my learning.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
UNF
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Acronyms galore! The UTC defines UNC and UNF standards in the USA. Oof.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
stem cell
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Both a target and a tool of biomedical engineering nowadays.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Kelvin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
autogyro
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
adiabatic
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
eutectic
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Talking about eutectic points of solid mixtures.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 17.218: Old Book Smell, 11/1/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Old Book Smell

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.181: Why Rivers Don't Flow in Straight Lines, 9/11/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Why Rivers Don't Flow in Straight Lines

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.178: Healing with Dragon's Blood, 9/6/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Healing with Dragon's Blood

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:00