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People who hunt treasure with metal detectors have a lingo all their own. Canslaw means the shreds of aluminum cans left after a lawnmower ran over...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
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Imagine telling someone how to get to your home, but without using the name of your street, or any other street within 10 miles. Could you do it? W...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 19
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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
Caption: Anne Fadiman's 1998 Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
First-person commentary about using books as my "acorns" to survive the colder weather coming.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 10:47
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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
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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
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Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Upskill your team without killing the mood. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Let's have a détente over detents.

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
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If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
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Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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It's the OG OEM.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Trying not to talk in circles here.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
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I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
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No, it's not an alternative slang form of "tap that," but it is a part that really gets us going.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Not just a murderer, folks, as automotive engineers and technologists know.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1