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Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:16
I like the name sumac and I’ve known it since I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:42
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
Radio show done on Ozcatradio.com (KZCT-FM Vallejo, CA) on 3/22/18. Theme is "Electricity" with sets on phones, radio, television and other assorte...
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 02:58:57
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...
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- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
In honor of Flyway Festival coming up in Vallejo, CA on Feb 9-11, this show is on "Birds". To my chagrin, half the birds flew away while I did sho...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 01:45:27
We run out of time, but get more in a few days. How lucky. Lots of audio pieces on time to chose from....this is a mix of old and new. Lots of blue...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 02:58:48
I blew 46 years of dust off a record I had (Shhh yes..."underground") of all the Christmas messages the Beatles recorded for their fan club from 19...
- Added: Dec 15, 2017
- Length: 02:59:03
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
Halloween theme show broadcast on Ozcatradio.com (KZCT-FM, Vallejo, CA). It was Electronics Holliday day and I didn't know it. My Ipad decided it w...
- Added: Oct 29, 2017
- Length: 02:57:23
And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 1
One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
It's customer-centered design versus blue sky design. Who will win?
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.
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- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
Describing revolute joints.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
The green dodo (Dodoneaea viscosa var. angustifolia) was a very common landscape plant around Tucson back when I first started working in a wholesa...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:18
The story of Moon Taxi is one of perseverance and belief that what they were doing would no doubt find its way into the collective consciousness of...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
Chances are that at some point in your life you’ve been asked, “What’s your sign?” That phrase is both a terrible pickup line and proof that astro...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 07:29
Elmer's Cafe was buzzing from the minute I got there this morning ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:48
Come usher in Part VII of Sometimes a Saint & Sometimes A Sinner. We’ll tread between the two worlds with a rich collection of old spirituals, murd...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 01:56:18
A Locomotive Enthusiast, a Train Spotter and a Rail Modeller discuss their hobby.
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 32:09