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Brian Dunning takes on a bevy of student questions with topics ranging from nuclear waste to fad diets to drinking one's own urine.
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2024
- Length: 02:30
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
Programming programs to program their own programs. This is Episode 74 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, o...
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 03:50
What’s so great about the human eye? Can we build something just like it? When would we need to design something better? Sadhan joins the podcast a...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jul 07, 2018
- Length: 19:47
- Purchases: 1
I tried ceramic glazing / The result was quite amazing / When I saw it cool / I touched not a tool / The surface showed cracks and crazing. ***This...
- Added: Jun 26, 2018
- Length: 04:57
What is mechanical engineering? Engineer Sadhan Sathyaseelan joins the show again from The University of Texas to wonder out loud about all the imp...
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 42:04
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...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications.
This is episode 43 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorit...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 30, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
No, it's not an alternative slang form of "tap that," but it is a part that really gets us going.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
This episode explores bites. The good and the bad, the Arachnid the Annelid, and the Diptera. How dangerous is the widow spider bite? Do we still u...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 36:39
- Purchases: 1
Can you drink your own urine? Run yourself to death? This week we explore the science and physiology of how extreme heat effects our bodies.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WYAP, and WART FM
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 26:50
- Purchases: 4
