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Stack your your stones and let walls join
to make an old-school building quoin.
This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sh...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 03:18
In this installment of STEM Science Radio, our hosts discuss the science and lack there-of in some of the most popular superheroes.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Aug 22, 2020
- Length: 15:18
- Purchases: 1
Is there a standard I may have missed?
Time to consult the engineers at NIST.
This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2020
- Length: 06:50
In this episode of STEM Science Radio, our hosts explore the complex nature of math paradoxes.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 2
It's the real MVP of simplifying user interfaces in some programming languages these days. This is Episode 77 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an in...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 05:13
This segment of Sound Ecology highlights two small mammalian predators of the Pacific Northwest: the marten and the fisher.
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 2
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Edmonton, Alberta isn’t the place you’d necessarily expect to be making breakthrough medical advances. But that’s just what has been happening in t...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 04:00
The causes of Type 2 diabetes are well known (obesity, ingesting too many carbohydrates, a sedentary lifestyle). But what about Type 1 diabetes, th...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
One promising new treatment for diabetes is transplanting healthy pancreatic cells into diabetics to restore their ability to digest sugars. What a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes has been known to doctors for thousands of years. How was it treated before the discovery of insulin? What new ways are being developed to...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 1
About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
The mind is a cave
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:34
