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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
Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.
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- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 01:30
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Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.” Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel. He's a creature that knows a ...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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If you think songbird songs are wonderfully complex, you’re going to find this story simply amazing.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
We all know divorce can be painful for those involved. And now, researchers at the University of Michigan have determined that divorce also hurts t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The biggest winner from Beijing, China's 2008 Olympic Games may be the environment.
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint.
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- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.”
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. Yet, like so many environmental issues, there is another side.
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- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes you don't have to look far to find a solution. While 300 million people in Africa suffer from hunger and malnutrition, the most popular ...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Recently, a group of scientists comparing rainfall over the last century with global production of greenhouse gases and aerosols reached a startlin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:30
If you're looking for nature to somehow save us from global warming, don't bank on trees.
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
