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locknut
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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For those situations when you just can't let go. This is Episode 54 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
duty cycle
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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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
The Artificial Pancreas (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Doctors often suggest managing diabetes through diet and exercise, but that’s primarily for type 2 diabetes. Those who suffer from type 1 diabetes ...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSFR, and WOUB


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 5
azeotrope
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
isomer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How are isomers like ice cream?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
circumscribe
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Trying not to talk in circles here.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
ephemerides
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
viscoelasticity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
inclinometer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
sensitivity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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When you're almost done designing something, do you start to feel very sensitive?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
UNF
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Acronyms galore! The UTC defines UNC and UNF standards in the USA. Oof.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
stem cell
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Both a target and a tool of biomedical engineering nowadays.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
autogyro
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
iterate
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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An introduction to this series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 2
Teacher Dreams and Nightmares
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast, Season 1, Credit: Pios Labs
We explore the alleged phenomenon of teachers getting bad dreams and nightmares, more often than everyone else, starting with several engineering t...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 34:47
Repairing BRCA1 (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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About 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cance...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 4
Exploring Pluto with New Horizons
From: Carrie Nugent
Series: Spacepod
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Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 14:35
After a flood, solving the mystery of water
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: 2013 flood in Estes Park, Credit: Town of Estes Park
Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
Mother of Invention
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A mother and a nurse created a device to help other breast-feeding moms.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
Inside San Francisco’s Secret SoundLab
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:46
Teen Inventors Bring A Fresh Approach
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Three stories about inventors who have done some pretty amazing things before even graduating from high school. From cats to semiconductors, these ...

Bought by WTJU and KALW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
32: 52 Hz (Extended cut)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: Pinball the Humpback whale, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Last of the Iron Lungs
From: Julia Scott
Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 14
Backpacks... for Dragonflies?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dragonfly wearing a "telemetry backpack"
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1