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Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 49:38
Davy Chou talks frustration, poetry, and contradictory forces.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 20:20
Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:02
To control and steer kinetic energy
is an actuator's ultimate apogee.
This is Episode 89 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favo...
- Added: Aug 07, 2020
- Length: 04:34
In a conversation with his long-time friend, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto reminisces on his childhood in San Antonio and the lessons he learned about land,...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KZYX, and WYAP
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 3
A robot arm may have a prehensile length
that should be tested for its tensile strength!
This is Episode 87 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an inf...
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 02:56
OutCasting youth participant Amalee talks about the importance of using preferred personal pronouns, especially for trans people.
Bought by KUAF Public Radio, PRX Remix, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Mar 29, 2019
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 02:00
Producer Carla Seidl recalls her experience in Togo, West Africa, through language notes and audio recordings. A sound-rich cultural immersion/aud...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 09:04
At 14, Bud Nakasone witnessed the Pearl Harbor attacks. Four years later, he perfected his Japanese skills at a military language school at Fort Sn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 04:50
Atsuko Hirayanagi talks culture, conforming, and the mixed blessing of a sugar coating.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 16:27
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 02:00
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
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
This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
Why So Many Languages?
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 02:00
The World That Language Makes
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Does language distinguish man from beast? Or do chirps, growls and howls of animals also carry meaning, like our words? Many studies over the past ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 04:56
A generational discussion on the evolution of grammar in our society and culture.
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 51:27
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 16:26
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
Whether it’s understanding a shaman grandfather, or deepening love via another tongue. These stories from around the world are about personal histo...
- Added: Jun 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
