Explain that Stuff
Welcome to Explain that Stuff... in podcast form! Yes, by popular request, an audio version of the easy-to-understand science website you can listen to round the house or on the move. We cover the basics of how things work, cutting-edge science, cool gadgets, and computers. Unlike other websites, the emphasis is on explaining things simply and clearly so you can actually understand them. Not masses of facts and unnecessary details. Just clear, simple explanation. We teach stuff the way a teacher would, by building out from what you know already. Please subscribe and stay tuned...
Episodes
Episodes
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Catching rays - a quick guide to passive solar energy
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
With crafty building design, you can heat your home with plentiful, free energy from the Sun. It's called passive solar energy - and here's how it works!
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Pollution solutions - what can we do about water pollution?
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
If water's the stuff of life, why do we still live in a world of littered rivers and oil spills? Today, a look at water pollution - and what we can do about it.
Saturday Sep 07, 2024
Eye spy electric eye - a quick introduction to LIDAR
Saturday Sep 07, 2024
Saturday Sep 07, 2024
How do self-driving cars see where they're going? One way is by using a kind of light-scanning laser called LIDAR - and here's a quick look at how it works.
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Mind games - The 10 greatest experiments of psychology
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
The ideas we have about ourselves and other people are often well wide of the mark - as 10 amazing experiments from the history of psychology impressively demonstrate!
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Lost and found - how GPS works
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Are you feeling lost? GPS "satnav" will soon put you right. Today we take a simple look at GPS, Glonass, Galileo, and the other space satellite navigation systems spinning around over our heads!
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
Flying through time - a brief history of flight
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
No, the Wright Brothers didn't invent flying - the idea actually dates back through thousands of years of history. Today, we glide through the story of human flight!
Saturday Aug 10, 2024
Atoms on your wrist - telling time with atomic clocks
Saturday Aug 10, 2024
Saturday Aug 10, 2024
Today we discover how atoms vibrating 9,192,631,770 times a second can help us tell time. Welcome to the wonderful world of radio-controlled, atomic clocks!
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Teaching computers to talk - all about speech synthesis
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
From HAL and "Speak & Spell" to Siri, and Alexa, we look at how speech synthesizers work... and why they still don't work perfectly!