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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1163: A Better Mousetrap

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 27, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1163 To build a better mousetrap -- that people will use.  Today, let's build a better mousetrap.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1162: Systems

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 26, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1162 Systems: Much more than the sum of their parts.  Today, let's see how machines transcend themselves.

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Laura Wilson (micro-credential education/learning)

Maine Science Podcast - April 25, 2024 09:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Laura Wilson manages skills-based micro-credential development for Cooperative Extension at the University of Maine. Laura's previous work includes being a Science Youth Development Professional at 4H and a Water Quality Professional. Laura has been a a long-time partner with Maine Discovery Mus...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1979: Airplane Reservations

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 25, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1979 How to process five thousand airline reservation requests in one second.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd buys plane tickets.

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso

Code for Thought - April 24, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Property based testing can help you make your tests more effective and your code more robust. Together with my guests Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso we talk about what property based testing is and in particular go into one widely used implementation for Python - the Hypothesis library....

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Episode 125 - Charli Matthews; Visionary leader and Founder of Empowering Brands

Ordinarily Extraordinary - Conversations with women in STEM - April 24, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour
This episode of Ordinarily Extraordinary Conversations with Women in STEM' features Charli Matthews, a champion for empowering women in STEM fields and trades.  Charli Matthews is a visionary leader with a mission to Connect, Inform, and Educate the Global Pump Industry. Charli's groundbreaking...

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My Story in Computing with Sam Procter

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series - April 24, 2024 15:42 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Sam Procter started out studying computer science at the University of Nebraska, but he didn’t love it. It wasn’t until he took his first software engineering course that he knew he’d found his career path. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Sam P...

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REBROADCAST......how can robots work together? (with Kirstin Petersen)

Ever Wonder? from the California Science Center - April 24, 2024 15:00 - 19 minutes
We are starting a new series on robots! We've seen some pretty amazing advances in robotics in just the past few years. Maybe you've seen videos of humanoid robots that do backflips or robot hummingbirds that can hover in midair. Now, a video of a single back-flipping robot is pretty amazing. Bu...

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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 128: Engineering Inflatable Structures for Space

Small Steps, Giant Leaps - April 24, 2024 12:02 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
How inflatable habitats moved from concept papers to the International Space Station, and what NASA is doing to eventually put one on the Moon.

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Why am I killing my house plants?

Oxford Sparks Big Questions - April 24, 2024 11:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
House plants can be a cheerful pop of colour in your home. But do you find after the initial burst of life, your plants start to fade, looking sad and unhealthy?   M Garrido Davies, from the Department of Biology, shares top tips for helping house plants to flourish, starting with learning m...

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PFAS MCL Announcement Explained

PFAS Pulse Podcast - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Here's the Work Hard segment from the 3:12 Podcast, where we bring you a breakdown on the EPA's finalization of maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in drinking water. Guests Bryan Massa and Tom Darby represent the top talent in the PFAS field at HRP and are here to bring you the details. Listen t...

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3:12 - The HRP Podcast, Episode 43: PFAS MCL Announcement Explained

3:12 - The HRP Podcast - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
HRP Associates leads the way on PFAS, bringing you this breakdown on the EPA's finalization of maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in drinking water. Guests Bryan Massa and Tom Darby represent the top talent in the PFAS field at HRP and are here to bring you the details. A reminder that our Play ...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3001: Archimedes To the Rescue

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 24, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 3001 Archimedes to the Rescue.  Today, Archimedes to the rescue.

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149 - CROSS UK with Neil Gibbins and Peter Wilkinson

Fire Science Show - April 24, 2024 03:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
CROSS UK is Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures in UK. CROSS is a confidential reporting system which allows professionals working in the built environment to report on fire and structural safety issues. These are then published anonymously to share lessons learned, create positive chan...

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The Power of Drug Discovery with Philip Tagari

Raising Health - April 23, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratings
Philip Tagari, Chief Scientific Officer of insitro, joins Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they discuss the transformative power of drugs in changing human health—and history. They also reflect on the evolution of the drug discovery process as it shifts from...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 23, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.  Today, a room without a view.

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Why are Whales Important?

SolveItForKids podcast - April 23, 2024 04:40 - 31 minutes
Have you ever wondered why whales are important to the planet? On  our special Earth Day edition of the podcast, we talk with Dr. Emme Devonish, an Amelia Island Whale Ambassador, as she discusses how whales contribute so many things to our ecosystem. You can learn a lot about right whales who l...

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[EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod

Code for Thought - April 22, 2024 23:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode I talk about two different aspects of diversity in tech and in research software engineering in particular. First we hear from Jeremy Cohen, who has been running the DiveRSE seminar series since 2022 and is the co-author on a paper on the subject (link below). Then I talk to Mich...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1161: Roman Water Wheel

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 22, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1161 An old Roman mill tells about the acceptance of technology.  Today, we try to make sense of an old Roman power plant.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1159: Nevil Shute’s Ordeal

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 21, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1159 In which Nevil Shute looks at the ordeal of aerial bombing.  Today, Nevil Shute predicts the chilling anonymity of war.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1158: The Crystal Palace

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 20, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1158 The Crystal Palace, the 1851 exhibition, and Victorian art.  Today, we look for art to equal the building that holds it.

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Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia

Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast - April 19, 2024 11:10 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieves resistant depression, the way the brain changes when animals build a bond, the evolution of flu outbreaks, and how aphantasia affects autobiographical memo...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1157: Marketing Model A

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 19, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1157 Merchandising Windows 95 and the Ford Model A.  Today, we sell Model A's and Windows 95.

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The Future of Fire Safety

Create the Future - April 18, 2024 23:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
What does the UK national anthem have to do with fire safety? And who is responsible for preventing fires of the future? Guru Madhavan - senior director of programs of the US National Academy of Engineering - chairs his first edition of Create The Future. His red hot guests are structural fire ...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1971: Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 18, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1971 In which Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer race to prove Fermat's last theorem.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd relives a race.

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148 - Building Integrated Photovoltaics with Reidar Stølen

Fire Science Show - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
In this episode of the Fire Science Show we go in depth on the Building Integrated Photo-Voltaic systems (BIPV). It is a topic relevant to many fire engineers, and one on which it is very difficult to find a lot of information about. For this purpose I’ve invited Reidar Stølen from RISE and a Ph...

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S5E15.5 PDX: Ian McEachern

Being an Engineer - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutes
PDX offers a dynamic bootcamp-style experience tailored exclusively for engineers engaged in the design and development of hard goods products. Unlike conventional conference presentations, our interactive event fosters direct engagement between the industry’s highest-performing subject matter e...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 17, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 3029 Model Citizen.  Today, lets talk about models.

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AI-Enabled Continuity of Care with Ed and Todd Park

Raising Health - April 16, 2024 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratings
Vijay Pande, founding general partner of a16z Bio + Health, chats with the builders (and siblings) behind Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park.  The Park brothers, with decades of expertise in healthcare and policy, including as EVP and COO at athenahealth (Ed) and Chief Technology Officer of the U...

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Albert-László Barabási - Network science, breakthrough orientation, and a life made around discovery

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Albert-László Barabási thinks in networks and his scholarship, as his life, is embodiment of the explorative, imaginative, and generative nature of networks. It would be difficult to imagine a person better suited to steward us through the innate and seemingly universal tendency of things to con...