Tag: waste

• Plastic Cookies

  An international NASA contest has resulted in a technology that turn plastic compounds and agricultural waste into proteins. A team from Southern Illinois University has turned those proteins into a 3D printed cookie that could combat global hunger and …

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  October 30, 2026Episodes

• Moon Poop

  NASA is going back to the moon. Which means one of the biggest unsolved problems still looms large: what to do with all of the human waste we leave behind? Anthony and Jeff discuss the poop problem, and what …

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  June 30, 2026Episodes

• Block the Sun and a Battery of Waste

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  April 16, 2021Episodes

• Mind The Crap

  It turns out those gut feelings or pits in your stomach may actually come from your second brain. Scientists from Australia have discovered that human beings have a second brain, and it is located in the butt. Called the enteric …

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  June 13, 2018Episodes

• The Little Engine That Turd (w/Ify Nwadiwe and Dani Fernandez)

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  Right now, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of poop are stranded in a rural Alabama rail yard. Technically it’s biowaste, but to the …

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  April 16, 2018Episodes