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Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 04:00
There is a floor tile that uses the power of footsteps to generate electricty!
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Step on a crack, break your mother's back! But what if the concrete never cracks? A microbiologist has invented living, self-patching concrete.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Social enterprising helps impoverished small share farmers in Africa and Asia save money through cellular technology.
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Cigarettes are horrible for you, but their butts are quite useful for recycling. A garbage startup in New Jersey is turning trash into outdoor furn...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Pay up! A team of social scientists in France and Spain develops an algorithm that helps save you money while redistributing wealth.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Kenyan inventor has designed a pair of gloves that translate signed hand movements into speech.
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 02:34
Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for. This is Episode 53 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on...
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- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Submitting a 510(k) might be like saying you're qualified for college because your fraternal twin is already there. This is Episode 52 of Engineeri...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 06:06
- Purchases: 1
The delicious flavor of a 0% manufacturing defect rate can come from fresh poka-yoke. This is Episode 51 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...
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- Added: Jan 07, 2018
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development". This is Episode 50 of E...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products. Episode 47 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Engineering and business consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., guests on this episode to discuss the critical engineering design concept of validation. You...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Let's talk about high fashion and Target, the big box store. The two seemingly opposites converged, recently, largely because of the environmentall...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Weekly discussion about the latest Technology for Regular People
- Added: Sep 04, 2008
- Length: 12:14
The bacterium Thermus aqaticus, discovered in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, made some people rich...
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Today, you can recharge many gadgets with solar power.
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Wind is the world's fastest-growing energy source, with an average annual growth rate of 29 percent over the last 10 years. Wind-driven turbines co...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
