Podcasts by How Your World Works
This is a podcast about how the world works, featuring the news, stories, and people that make it happen.
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Episode 41: How to Test Everything from 2017-01-14T05:45:50
On today's show, we talk to our good friend Rachel Rothman, Chief Technologist at the Good Housekeeping Institute. Working on a specialized floor a few levels up from Popular Mechanics, she and a t...
ListenEpisode 40: How to Avoid Flight Delays from 2016-12-30T20:21:38
On today's show, Steve Abraham, a long time air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, tells us about his job--everything from how he get into it (and how tha...
ListenEpisode 39: How to Make a Camp Stove (For Good) from 2016-12-17T04:39:13
BioLite is an interesting company. Their signature product is a camp stove that burns wood and uses some of the heat to charge a battery, which can, in turn, charge small electronic devices. It's g...
ListenEpisode 38: How to Run A Super Secret Defense Project from 2016-12-03T07:23:37
On today's episode, guest host and Popular Mechanics Contributing Editor Dan Dubno takes us inside the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to learn about new technology that can allow a man t...
ListenEpisode 37: How to Make a Museum Exhibit from 2016-11-19T01:55:04
The preparators of the American Museum of Natural History's Exhibitions Department are artists and craftsmen by trade who become scientists by practice as they build the museum's famed traveling ex...
ListenEpisode 36: How to Run An Election from 2016-11-04T16:57
For today's episode, Popular Mechanics' political correspondent Mark Warren joins to interview Dana DeBeauvoir, County Clerk of Travis County, Texas (It's where Austin is). She discusses the prepar...
ListenEpisode 35: How to Design a Haunted House from 2016-10-24T15:28
With Halloween fast approaching, we talk to Leonard Pickel of Hauntrepreneurs - a company that designs haunted attractions from the ground up. An architect by training, Pickel explains how he disto...
ListenEpisode 34: How to Make A Basketball Court Into a Hockey Rink from 2016-10-07T21:45:33
Tonight, Friday, October 7th, is the LA Lakers' first home game of the NBA preseason. After their game is over, the crew at LA's Staples Center will have to get the arena ready to host a concert on...
ListenEpisode 33: How to Win a Hackathon from 2016-09-23T20:12:14
If you read the October 2016 issue of Popular Mechanics, you may have noticed a section of the Breakthrough Awards devoted to competitors from Major League Hacking, the competition circuit for coll...
ListenEpisode 32: How to Design How Your World Works from 2016-09-14T03:19:30
On today's show, IDEO's Dav Rauch and Peter Hyer talk about their work designing the interfaces in everything from ATMs to Tony Stark's Iron Man suit. It turns out that thinking about how people us...
ListenHow to Dominate Fantasy Football. For a Living. from 2016-08-26T21:46:49
On today's episode, fantasy football addict (and Popular Mechanics Executive Editor) Peter Martin joins the show as a guest interviewer when we talk to Matthew Berry, ESPN's senior fantasy sports a...
ListenHow to Tell The Future from 2016-08-12T20:00
On today's episode, we talk to Glenn Hiemstra, the founder of Futurist.com. To start with, he explains what it even means to be a futurist. Then he tells us a little more about what it takes to pee...
ListenHow to Make Leather from 2016-07-29T22:08:53
On today's episode, Jeremy Bennett from Filson and Matt Bressler from Wickett&Craig - one of the nation's few tanneries that specialize in high-quality vegetable tanning - stop by the studio to dis...
ListenHow to Make Carbon Dioxide Into Stone from 2016-07-15T19:52:05
Among the many ideas that have been floated for slowing down climate change, carbon capture and sequestration is one of the easiest to understand: When carbon dioxide is produced - say, by a factor...
ListenHow To Eat A Hot Dog... Fast from 2016-07-01T16:01:47
In honor of the 100th Anniversary edition of the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, competitive eating lifer Crazy Legs Conti comes on the show to talk about the sport. Aside from explaining h...
ListenThe Life of a Volunteer Firefighter from 2016-06-17T21:52:33
On today's show, we talk to Pecos Davis and Chance Parsons, firefighters with the Malaga Volunteer Fire Department in Eddy County, New Mexico. Working with few resources in the southwest corner of ...
ListenHow to Make Acrobats Fly Through The Air from 2016-06-03T21:00
If you’ve ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, or perhaps Marvel Universe Live, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the work of Brett Copes. He’s a rigger—one of the guys who sets up the complicated st...
ListenLife on an Indy 500 Pit Crew from 2016-05-25T17:02
On today’s show, Travis Law and Trevor Lacasse of Team Penske – mechanics for Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya, who’ve won a combined five Indianapolis 500 races – talk about what they’ll b...
ListenHow to Make a Knife from 2016-05-07T02:46:31
On today’s episode, Chelsea Miller and Michael Zieba – both master knife makers, albeit with very different origin stories – come to the studio to explain what it takes to make a knife. It’s hard w...
ListenHow to make Beer from 2016-04-23T17:52:18
On today’s show, we try to find out what actually happens inside a craft brewery. It’s not just brewing beer, and even when it is, that doesn’t always go smoothly—have you ever heard of a beer bomb...
ListenThe Future of Automobiles, Hardcore Henry, and Nuclear Proliferation from 2016-04-09T01:48:10
On today’s show, we go from exciting to concerning: First, we discuss whether the future of cars is a Lincoln Navigator with the doors of a DeLorean and the stylings of a Range Rover, or Tesla’s Mo...
ListenSabermetrics, Organ transplant, and the Amazon Brick and Mortar from 2016-03-25T22:50:44
There are 121, 362 people currently on the organ transplant list and not all of them will get the organs they need in time. On this episode of How Your Word Works, we learn about a new medical proc...
ListenThe Iditarod Heats Up from 2016-03-12T00:06:44
It was 40 degrees out at the start of this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The dogs prefer –10. We find out how warmer temperatures are causing mushers to try different strategies to make sure...
ListenPopular Mechanics Goes to the Oscars. And Space. from 2016-02-27T17:54:11
On today's show, we talk to the guys who turn science and technology into movie magic. Then we hear from astronaut Mike Hopkins about life on the International Space Station--the little things, lik...
ListenDeadpool Effects, Air Travel Tips, and the Art of Political Polling. from 2016-02-12T23:36
With the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary in the books, election season is in full swing. In this week’s episode we asked professional pollster Nick Gourevitch the question on everyone’s m...
ListenThe Challenger Disaster, 30 Years Later from 2016-01-27T21:17:31
On January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its mission, America changed in a profound way. The schoolchildren of America had been watching the launch with keen ...
ListenThe End of the Year from 2015-12-31T23:41:45
In the waning days of 2015, kick your Christmas Tree to the curb and get started thinking about the new year. On today’s episode, we tell you what happens to your tree after you part with it, and s...
ListenHoliday Movie Season from 2015-12-20T00:17:34
On today’s show, we take a look at the craftsmanship that was required to shoot Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in Ultra Panavision 70mm and project Star Wars: The Force Awakens in IMAX 70mm ...
ListenBaghdad, Arizona from 2015-11-20T17:57:31
Editor Sean Manning talks with writer Elliott Woods about a cadre of Iraqi fighter pilots training in Tucson, Arizona with the 162nd Wing of the Arizona Air National Guard. The pilots are learning ...
ListenCancer, Space Suits, Balloons from 2015-11-06T22:02:09
In this round table episode we talk to contributing writer Kira Peikoff about her story on a new form of cancer treatment that finds promise in patients with abnormally positive responses to otherw...
ListenGhostbusting from 2015-10-24T19:41:22
We investigate the spector of young girl at the Brooklyn Public library, talk to an expert in the field of ghost hunting, Dr. Karen Stollznow, the author of Haunting America; and we speak with the ...
ListenThe Martian from 2015-09-25T19:49:42
When Andy Weir wrote The Martian, his science puzzler about an astronaut marooned on Mars with only his wits (read: scientific knowledge) to save him, he timed it to come out before the Curiosity R...
ListenNFL Tech: Money Ball 2.0 from 2015-09-11T16:00
The NFL season kicks off this weekend, and while a lot of the focus may be on Tom Brady's revenge and Arian Foster's groin, we wanted to look at the game from a technology standpoint. As the effort...
ListenPrisons, Cheap Computers, and Drinking Acid from 2015-08-28T04:00
In a special round table edition of the show, our editors discuss how architectural design can build better jails, and better outcomes for inmates and society. We'll consider whether a computer tha...
ListenEl Nino VS the California Drought from 2015-08-01T12:19:25
Do you remember the late 90’s? During that time there were a few things that you just couldn’t escape: Celen Dion’s My Heart Will Go on was mandatorily played every 12 minutes across all stations. ...
ListenNeil DeGrasse Tyson on Pluto and the Probe from 2015-07-19T17:14:16
Whether you believe Pluto to be a planet or not, the pictures that NASA has been releasing since Wednesday are a stunning reminder that even a dwarf planet can be beautiful and awe-inspiring. Also...
ListenBlowing Up The Sky from 2015-07-03T00:20:08
Gary Souza is the Show Designer for the Macy’s Annual 4th of July Fireworks Display in New York. The 25 minute fireworks show is choreographed to music, involves 5 barges at different positions in ...
ListenMarc Maron Helps us Start a Podcast from 2015-06-19T01:23:53
For our first podcast ever we needed some help, so we asked an expert for tips. Podcasting legend Marc Maron, the host of “WTF with Marc Maron”, joined us to talk about what you can do with a garag...
ListenMarc Maron Helps us Start a Podcast from 2015-06-19T01:23:53
For our first podcast ever we needed some help, so we asked an expert for tips. Podcasting legend Marc Maron, the host of “WTF with Marc Maron”, joined us to talk about what you can do with a garag...
ListenMarc Maron Helps us Start a Podcast from 2015-06-19T01:23:53
For our first podcast ever we needed some help, so we asked an expert for tips. Podcasting legend Marc Maron, the host of “WTF with Marc Maron”, joined us to talk about what you can do with a garag...
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