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Rail travel shows how technology shapes our culture, behavior, and perceptions: From time zones, to how we think about traveling, to newstands.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
To my engineer's eye, the SWATCH is an incredible watch, which may sound odd since the SWATCH is famous for being cheap, and mostly plastic.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:33
I don't much like to fly - and so have had to learn everything that happens when a plane takes off.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
A good package blends technical know-how and psychology. This commentary tells the story of the grand daddy of all packagers: Gale Borden.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
- Purchases: 1
The story of the wonder fiber nylon, which begins with my underwear.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:53
This commentary highlights the risk we run from container ship - the blood supply for our global economy. They could be prime targets for terrorists.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:52
How we spell the word disk affects how you view laws about copying recordings of music and movies. Lying in the balance is billions of dollars, and...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
Gore-tex is an amazing material. It is used in
mountaineering gear, fishing equipment and ski outfits. Gore-Tex is usually advertised as waterproo...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:52
A piece of technology forklore is that batteries last longer if stored in the frig. The decisive answer? Yes and no ... but mostly no.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:39
Although voice mail is annoying, that wasn't the intent of its prolific inventor, engineer Gordon Matthews, author of some thirty patents. He said,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
The word "Gridlock" seems to have been with us forever, but it is only of recent origin. It appeared first in 1980, and it was coined by an enginee...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:07
I spent a night sleeping in one of the most incredible structures in the world: The Ice Hotel in the Arctic Circle of Sweden.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:50
Fox Sports made the hockey puck glow on the TV screen. This piece explains how they did it and how difficult it was to do.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
Although the Olympic Flame is an ancient tradition, it is now a very media savvy tradition. Television cameras cover the Torch's journey as 11,500 ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
The existence of more than forty species of birds, and other wildlife is in peril. Their survival depends on whether or not the wine cork survives.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:41
This commentary spells out how science and engineering have impacted baseballl.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
The story of the invention of color film
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:42
The QWERTY keyboard (a normal computer keyboard) illustrates a fundamental truth about technology and the marketplace: To dislodge an existing te...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:01
The waterless urinal is less a technological object that a political one.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
How many people attend a demonstration on, say, the Mall in Washington D.C.?The answer is "we don't know" because no one is really counting.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
The computer mouse seems commonplace now, but it truly revolutionized computers.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
winter day, while ice fishing, Birdseye piled his catch beside his fishing hole. The combination of ice, wind and temperature instantly froze the f...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:25
." The key obstacle to these cars, and their achilles heel, is getting the hydrogen to the car.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
- Added: Oct 28, 2009
- Length: 25:10
- Purchases: 1
Jesse Cohen discussed the Best American Science Writing for 2009.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 21, 2009
- Length: 25:28
- Purchases: 1
