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Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament G...
- Added: Nov 20, 2021
- Length: 51:41
Topic 1: How camera traps reveal the mysteries of nature; Topic 2: Why do we get lost so often?
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teachin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 49:38
Ears Adrift explores quantum technology with interviews from U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's top scientists.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 13:27
From: World Footprints LLC
In 1995, the late author Nigel Watts published his highly acclaimed fictional book, Twenty Twenty, that foretold the events the world is experienci...
- Added: Sep 23, 2020
- Length: 35:59
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
As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2020
- Length: 31:48
Popular accounts of autism often portray people with the condition as emotionless automatons. Yet more than a decade of work has convinced Pitt psy...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 10:18
Most of us probably think our everyday actions are based on decisions our mind has already made. But a Virginia researcher says we make decisions o...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSFR, WOUB, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 20, 2017
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 5
Doctors often suggest managing diabetes through diet and exercise, but that’s primarily for type 2 diabetes. Those who suffer from type 1 diabetes ...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSFR, and WOUB
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 5
We explore the alleged phenomenon of teachers getting bad dreams and nightmares, more often than everyone else, starting with several engineering t...
- Added: Aug 27, 2017
- Length: 34:47
When we’ve had a bad breakup, should we try to numb the pain? One Virginia professor has made answering this question their area of expertise, with...
Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WEZU
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 5
About 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cance...
Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 4
Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 53:54
With spring come flowers, green grass, and new leaves on the trees. But those welcome sights also bring some not-so-welcome allergies. What causes ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 3
![Caption: Artist Abdelkader Benchamma at work on “Representation of Dark Matter” at The Drawing Center, NYC. [Photo credit: Jose Andres Ramirez; courtesy of The Drawing Center], Credit: Jose Andres Ramirez; courtesy of The Drawing Center](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/350241/benchamma_square.jpg)
“Dark matter” has been in the news again lately as scientists have begun mapping what they believe is its prevalence across the universe. But, um,...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 2
Life is terminal. Whether we like it or not, time marches on, and as it does, we age. One of the most challenging realities for everyone to face ...
- Added: Dec 05, 2013
- Length: 07:20
So how do we define delusion? Well, actually, like most other things, that definition can be left up to the person who is doing the defining. Mer...
- Added: Nov 28, 2013
- Length: 07:20
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...
Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Mark Lewis on challenging himself, glamorizing amphibians, and the human folly of trying to outsmart Mother Nature.
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 19:17
Austin Vickers talks attitude, imagination, and particle physics.
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 19:11
Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A multiyear study begun at Harvard follows shy babies into adulthood. As producer Kelley Libby reports, 15 to 20 percent of us grow up to be shy.
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Actor, co-writer Brit Marling talks physics, metaphysics, and duality.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 16:09
