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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
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
This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 04:25
Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 03:09
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
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before you listen to this one. This episode contains descr...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 27:44
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
Wish I handled the dishes in real time, too. This is Episode 59 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 04:49
What is engineering? What are the important aspects of engineering that anybody should know? Can we talk about all this without getting too deep in...
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 27:36
Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. This is Episode 58 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favor...
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:44
Quarter for your thoughts about quaternions?
This is Episode 57 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 05:01
Let's take a poll. Who knows what this engineering word means?
This is Episode 56 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fas...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 05:08
Have you heard our GNU software engineering word of the day?
This is Episode 55 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasci...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle. Episode 48 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phra...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
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
Upskill your team without killing the mood. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
New York playwright Deb Zoe Laufer discusses her work, Informed Consent, a play based on a court case between an indigenous tribe and the Arizona S...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 30, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
