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Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...
Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 34:30
- Purchases: 6
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...
Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, and KVSC
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 33:00
- Purchases: 4
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 31:30
- Purchases: 6
Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 13:57
Dimensional Energy is at a crossroads with the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE: can they afford to stay in? Their situation raises larger questions about t...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 49:50
Cooper can't wait any longer to see carbon capture utilization technology, so he makes a slightly abnormal reporting trip… across the country. He w...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 52:42
The movement itself is called biocouture - this poop to pants movement is raising eyebrows on both sides of the issue.
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 02:30
They told me, "Let 'er rip, guy!"
"Tighten up that zip tie!"
This is Episode 103 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fas...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 05:14
The chemical reaction we smell from afar
that gives satisfaction is named Maillard.
This is Episode 102 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
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
You might see some programmers scurrying
when trying to implement a little currying.
This is Episode 98 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 08:22
Every product has flaws and some quirks,
but are products better if they come from skunkworks?
This is Episode 97 of Engineering Word Of The Day, ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2020
- Length: 05:01
Get an engineer and a chiropractor
if you're going to move that bioreactor.
This is Episode 95 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on...
- Added: Oct 08, 2020
- Length: 04:36
To prevent your frustration
have good fenestration.
This is Episode 93 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 04:26
A robot arm may have a prehensile length
that should be tested for its tensile strength!
This is Episode 87 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an inf...
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 02:56
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
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
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
Engineers Sadhan and Pius continue an ongoing series of discussions on the fundamentals of mechanical engineering. Today they talk about what they ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 41:26
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
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
