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On this episode of Audacious, meet three Ig Nobel Prize winners! Their achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.
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- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 50:00
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- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 01:54
Cristal complains about the workplace buzzwords she finds particularly annoying.
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 04:20
Howard complains about receiving "Your item has shipped" emails when it hasn't
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 03:26
Who hasn’t inadvertently pocket dialed someone? Smartphones are ubiquitous, and so are the phone foibles of the digital age. Jocelyn Robinson tells...
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- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 17:42
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Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...
- Added: Aug 15, 2020
- Length: 29:03
Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.
- Added: May 23, 2020
- Length: 10:08
If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader.
This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of T...
- Added: Feb 07, 2020
- Length: 06:10
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 02:40
Neuroscientists have found that dogs might actually love their people.
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 02:40
SWE wants to "stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders," among other goals.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:05
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Like cigarettes or leaded petrol, it seems boredom is gradually being phased out. The mobile phones we carry everywhere allow for an infinite varie...
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- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 21:27
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The IgNobels are awarded every year at Harvard University for research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. WTIP's Mike Reeves cha...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 13:54
Ittai Eres and Unjin Lee discuss past winners of the Ig Nobel prizes, and build up hype for this year's awards!
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- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 34:42
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- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 04:47
A Studs Terkel "Working" interview for a smartphone society.
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 02:52
For all of life's most meaningful moments, say it with a drone.
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 02:07
Sandip Roy tries to call his mother, but it proves to be more challenging than one would expect.
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 04:30
The amusing rhythmic sounds of a non-existent video-game. An amusing :60 interstitial.
- Added: Oct 20, 2014
- Length: :59
I think this wireless company forgot to remove the “r” from their “free” tech support . . .
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 02:54
This wireless company doesn’t provide tech “support” so much as tech “impotent rage”.
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 02:16
The joys of convoluted, apathetic, user-unfriendly tech support.
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- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 02:27
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Smart technology may advance, but poor customer service and exploitative contracts stay same.
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 05:15
Buy Amazon’s new “print books”—if Gary Busey says they’re innovative, then it must be true . . .
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 01:21
Love obfuscating jargon, government surveillance, and veneration of the ultra-rich elite? Then welcome to the Final Edition’s TED conference.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
