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Brian Dunning takes on a bevy of student questions with topics ranging from nuclear waste to fad diets to drinking one's own urine.
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2024
- Length: 02:30
I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:30
Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:31:59
The plastics we rely so heavily on today weren’t a single discovery. In fact, they weren’t even all discovered on purpose! Tune in to find out more.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 16:42
- Purchases: 1
Many Muslims fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This year, it falls within the coronavirus pandemic and people are curious about the he...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and WYAP
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
Abogado Hernandez recuerda a la comunidad su derecho a guardar silencio / Lawyer Hernandez reminds the community the right to remain silent.
- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: :30
What’s so great about the human eye? Can we build something just like it? When would we need to design something better? Sadhan joins the podcast a...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jul 07, 2018
- Length: 19:47
- Purchases: 1
I tried ceramic glazing / The result was quite amazing / When I saw it cool / I touched not a tool / The surface showed cracks and crazing. ***This...
- Added: Jun 26, 2018
- Length: 04:57
What is mechanical engineering? Engineer Sadhan Sathyaseelan joins the show again from The University of Texas to wonder out loud about all the imp...
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 42:04
Tonight’s guest, David Neville, tells us about his successful participation on the reality TV show “American Grit.” While we peek inside the TV sh...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 56:18
Robert Scherrell, the nation’s first college graduate awarded a degree in Stand Up Comedy is guest and teacher for aspiring comedy hosts Clarence B...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 58:21
New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development". This is Episode 50 of E...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Pius reviews with Rachel five mobile apps related to engineering education, available on Android and iOS. A ten-year-old guest reviewer also gives...
- Added: Dec 29, 2017
- Length: 29:56
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
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
Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications.
This is episode 43 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorit...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 30, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
