What happens when a whale bites off more than he can chew? Rudyard Kipling's classic story "How the Whale Got His Throat" was originally part of his 1903 Just So Stories, and is featured as an audio story to accompany a transcript of the...

Economic Lowdown Podcast Series [6:21] talks about the concepts of self-interest and competition and their importance to our understanding of the economic system.

Excellent information on the textile mills of the 1920s and 30s. Problems such as production and demand, strikes, and the General Strike of 1934 are discussed. Included are first person accounts.

We'll get the results of a recent student competition centered around the design and construction of living machines.

Physiologist and aerospace engineer Troy Flanagan shares the science behind Olympic training.

We'll talk about the Kids' Science Challenge, a NSF-funded competition that challenges kids to come up with problems that can be solved via science.

He's invented everything from an insulin pump to the Segway Transporter. He started the FIRST Robotics competitions for students. And now, he has his own television show.

"Greece is on the Eruo" and that is why the market has confidence in the country. Greece is in financial difficulty and people are questioning whether the Euro was a good thing. If Greece was on its own currency it's goods might...

The lexicon of rugby, and the men's game itself, return to Olympic competition after a 92-year absence. The return in Rio also involves a couple of debuts: It's the first Olympic appearance for women in the sport, and a first for Rugby...

Discusses an upcoming competition between IBM's supercomputer "Watson" and champions of the TV game show Jeopardy. The computer must be able to interpret natural language, e.g., irony, in order to win. Aired Feb. 11, 2011 [17:38 min]

A discussion of a 4-min video that shows a giant 1000-pound pumpkin grown in a backyard of Long Island, and how this was accomplished. It also looks at how the pumpkin is extracted from the garden and transported to the pumpkin-growing...

With the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics just a week away, we'll talk about an emerging potential threat to fair competition -- gene doping. How will advances in genetic manipulation affect athletics, and are athletes and referees...