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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
If you can't decide, and you're on the fence, get knocked right off, by some resonance.
This is Episode 84 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an info...
- Added: Feb 18, 2020
- Length: 04:47
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
Topic 1: Using brain scans to make pain objectively measurable. Topic 2: Augmented reality for the blind. Topic 3: The evolution of motherhood in p...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 50:02
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 22:21
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 30:42
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 28:04
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 32:36
This challenge will not tackle us; we'll tackle it, we'll win, this calculus.
This is Episode 80 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 06:39
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:58
This week on the show: Hands and feet
You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "polydact...
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Engineers, unite! Harness the power of perovskite. This is Episode 78 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or...
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 04:50
Richard Ladkani, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith, and Andrea Crota talk symbols, hope, and the definition of extremist.
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 23:03
Popular accounts of autism often portray people with the condition as emotionless automatons. Yet more than a decade of work has convinced Pitt psy...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 10:18
Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is g...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 14, 2019
- Length: 13:49
- Purchases: 3
It's the real MVP of simplifying user interfaces in some programming languages these days. This is Episode 77 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an in...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 05:13
On this episode of Culture Clique, we talk to Clinical Herbalist Bonnie Kreckow at Simply Bee Natural about healing trauma and injuries with herbs....
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 40:25
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
On this episode of Art Beat we continue our coverage of the 2019 Frozen River Film Festival. This time around I talk to one of the Emmy winning pro...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 29:18
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
An audio postcard featuring the northern harrier. Formerly called a marsh hawk, naturalist Ken Burton shares some life history about this easily id...
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2
This segment of Sound Ecology celebrates the white-tailed kite. Naturalist Ken Burton shares some life history and behavior of this "angel hawk".
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2
Sergio Avila Villegas always loved big cats. But his faith in his scientific research was shaken when he discovered its true cost.
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 15:33
- Purchases: 2
Programming programs to program their own programs. This is Episode 74 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, o...
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 03:50
This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 01:17:06