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Podcast: Explaining the Personal Tilt-Rotor

The writers and editors behind the story of one of year's most exciting aircraft concepts reveal how it came to fruition

By PopSci Staff Posted 11.25.2008 at 3:29 pm 2 Comments

An ambitious hybrid aircraft could be the key to flying faster, greener and more agilely than ever. In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, executive editor Mike Haney and writer Abe Streep explain to host Chuck Cage how the concept may soon be a reality.

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Podcast: The Making of the Biggest Prank

On this episode of Cocktail Party Science, the writers and editors of PopSci explain how they got a bunch of collegiate pranksters to let them in on one of the most hardcore, highly engineered pranks of all time

By PopSci Staff Posted 10.31.2008 at 12:16 pm 0 Comments

What does it take to get on the inside of a prank? Writer Bob Parks and PopSci Deputy Editor Jake Ward sit down with host Chuck Cage to discover the story behind the story of one of the biggest college pranks in history.

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Intertube Products For the Rest of Us

Wherein we troll the Web 2.0 Expo floor and discover it's not all business

By Abby Seiff Posted 09.18.2008 at 3:11 pm 0 Comments

I am falling down the rabbit hole here at the Web 2.0 Expo. It's easy to spend hours wandering the floor, through aisles after aisles filled with "business solutions." A shipping container filled with servers: Why not? Twitter for businesses? Sounds good. I can assure you there is no other place where you will hear the words "scalability," "modular" and "sticky" thrown around with such gleeful abandon.

Which makes stumbling upon a cool-for-the-rest-of-us product or service that much more satisfying.

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NEW! Now Hear This: The PopSci Podcast

Our contributing troubadour, Jonathan Coulton, talks to the movers and shakers of sci-tech. From the moon.

Posted 05.12.2006 at 1:00 am 2 Comments

What's a podcast? Simply put, a podcast is a multimedia file that can be downloaded to your MP3 player or computer. PopSci's podcasts are like little variety shows, complete with music, informative interviews, and sometimes even photos and video. Each week, we'll talk to experts about the stories shaping the future of technology, from the frontlines of the "wired" war in Iraq to San Francisco's plan to turn dog droppings into electricityand everything in between.

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