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Stack your your stones and let walls join to make an old-school building quoin. This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sh...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 03:18
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In 1532 the Spanish found out what everyone in South America already knew--potatoes are amazing. But when they brought them back to Europe the rece...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Educator Rachel and engineer Pius introduce Season 4 and brainstorm about what interests us in K-12 engineering education today. We talk about scho...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 31:25
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Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on fav...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Kay Johnston Massar tells her husband, Cy Massar, about being the first girl to play Little League baseball.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products. Episode 47 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Let's have a détente over detents.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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It's not a power ballad by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it's not a burrito chain. What is it? The question floods me with curiosity.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
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It's the OG OEM.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Not just telephone operators, folks!

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Another design buzzword? Or important field? Both?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
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You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Is there a program called Matt Daemon that secretly translates everything you say around your computer into a Boston accent?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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All hail and all fear the magic smoke!

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1