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Engineers take a ton of tests. They're thinking: Can I pass it all?
They do, and they build tons of things, and some are made of acetal.
This is...
- Added: Feb 25, 2020
- Length: 03:25
Ah, potentiometers. So much potential use, right?
This is Episode 83 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, o...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 04:59
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
Messing with this gas of a word isn't ideal. This is Episode 75 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 04:55
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
Engineers who study this know how to rub you the right way. This is Episode 60 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascin...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 04:18
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...
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- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
Let's have a détente over detents.
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- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?
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- Added: Sep 30, 2017
- Length: 04:17
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Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 02:46
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One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:11
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I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:01
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Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.
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- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:32
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Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:44
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Talking about eutectic points of solid mixtures.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:48
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Arizona poppy, Mexican poppy and summer poppy are some of the common names for the beautiful annual wildflower Kallstroemia grandiflora.
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 04:56
They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 03:53
THIS WEEK: Splitting the Clapper Rail; bird feeding help for condo owners; a swimming songbird; and, are you out there, Saskatchewan?
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 30:00
THIS WEEK: Is it a bird…or a cowboy boot? Help is on the way for the Wood Thrush, but will it arrive in time? And we answer a listener's question a...
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
This week on Into It, Andrew Bales takes a look at a lesser known insect with an unusual talent.
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:41
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Every decade or so someone proposes resurrecting Zeppelins -- it happens so often the tendency has been given a name: Helium Headiness.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:19
The waterless urinal is less a technological object that a political one.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31