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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3084: Leo Baekeland and Bakelite

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on October 27, 2020 · Episode: 3084 Leo Baekeland and Bakelite. Today, Bakelite.

Tags bakelite plastic velox

Energy & Environment

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

LAURA SULLIVAN, NPR

Posted on September 13, 2020 · An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

Tags big oil enviornment plastic pollution recycling

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2806: Thor and Engineering

Haleh Ardebili

Posted on January 15, 2020 · Episode: 2806 Thor, the god of thunder, engineering behind comic book, college courses that deal with fracture. Today, our guest Haleh Ardebili talks about Thor and Engineering.

Tags Avengers brittle deformation ductile elastic fatigue fracture god of thunder impact Marvel materials mechanics plastic shear statics stress Thor

Houston Matters

Full Show: Pollution From Plastics Plants, Moving Because Of Climate Change, And Latin Dance (Sept. 6, 2019)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on September 6, 2019 · On Friday's Houston Matters: Pollution from plastics plants, climate change's effect on our population, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week's news, and Latin dance.

Tags climate change Latin dance migration moving to Houston plastic Plastics pollution The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Features

Which Items In Our Kitchens Contain BPA?

NATALIE JACEWICZ

Posted on October 7, 2017 · Manufacturers are not required to disclose whether products contain BPA, which makes it hard to know which kitchen plastics include the additive — or other functionally identical compounds.

Tags BPA fda plastic science

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3084: Leo Baekeland and Bakelite

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on September 15, 2016 · Episode: 3084 Leo Baekeland and Bakelite Today, Bakelite.

Tags bakelite plastic velox

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