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When a congenital condition began to destroy Andrew Leland's eyesight, he decided that the result didn't have to be tragic.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 27, 2022
- Length: 52:49
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever accidentally dropped something in a lake? Plenty of Minnesotans have. That's why lake and river bottoms are full of artifacts and boa...
- Added: Oct 27, 2022
- Length: 06:38
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 2
Topic 1: Space Debris; Topic 2: Wilderness Survival; Topic 3: Robot Sweating
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 51:44
- Purchases: 3
To shrink the number of our faulty counts,
you have to learn how to debounce.
This is Episode 105 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show...
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 08:17
Topic 1: Who We Are With Dogs Is Who We Are as People. Topic 2: Fake News Isn’t Just Misleading. It Can Create False Memories.
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Aug 11, 2020
- Length: 51:41
- Purchases: 1
Is there a standard I may have missed?
Time to consult the engineers at NIST.
This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2020
- Length: 06:50
Many Muslims fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This year, it falls within the coronavirus pandemic and people are curious about the he...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and WYAP
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
The nonprofit Beyond Benign specializes in developing and disseminating educational resources in green chemistry – like how to create bioplastics, ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2020
- Length: 51:47
Engineers, unite! Harness the power of perovskite. This is Episode 78 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or...
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 04:50
Popular accounts of autism often portray people with the condition as emotionless automatons. Yet more than a decade of work has convinced Pitt psy...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 10:18
I like my definitions to be CRISPR and clearer. This is Episode 76 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or fu...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 04:26
Keep your data streams from going helter skelter with the help of a Kalman filter. This is Episode 70 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal s...
- Added: Aug 01, 2018
- Length: 06:01
Forget to get your tare, and you might shed a tear. This is Episode 69 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, o...
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 03:31
She thought it was very fancy of her / to separate the two enantiomers / She looked in the mirror / It couldn't be clearer / The left one was bette...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 1
If you have some metal, in a pot or a kettle, on this you can trust: over time it'll rust. This is Episode 64 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an in...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: May 22, 2018
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
For those situations when you just can't let go. This is Episode 54 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker remembers her late husband, renowned astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker, whose ashes are buried on the Moon.
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:16
Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 14:35
Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
Getting individualized care feels rare in the health industry, but in extreme cases, like cancer, it’s key. Researchers in Virginia are taking indi...
Bought by KENW and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
![Caption: Artist Abdelkader Benchamma at work on “Representation of Dark Matter” at The Drawing Center, NYC. [Photo credit: Jose Andres Ramirez; courtesy of The Drawing Center], Credit: Jose Andres Ramirez; courtesy of The Drawing Center](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/350241/benchamma_square.jpg)
“Dark matter” has been in the news again lately as scientists have begun mapping what they believe is its prevalence across the universe. But, um,...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 2
