How Your World Works
Popular Mechanics / Panoply
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This is a podcast about how the world works, featuring the news, stories, and people that make it happen.
Recent Episodes
JAN 30, 2017
Episode 42: How to Make the Super Bowl
The guys in charge of America's biggest sporting event tell us how they craft a compelling narrative from a live football game—in real time.
34 MIN
JAN 14, 2017
Episode 41: How to Test Everything
The woman in charge of a 100 year old product testing lab tells us about life as a professional tester.
26 MIN
DEC 30, 2016
Episode 40: How to Avoid Flight Delays
An Air Traffic Controller from New York's JFK Airport tells us how he keeps the nation's busiest airspace running smoothly.
31 MIN
DEC 17, 2016
Episode 39: How to Make a Camp Stove (For Good)
The folks from BioLite tell us about inventing a camp stove, then re-inventing it after realizing what it could do for developing nations.
30 MIN
DEC 3, 2016
Episode 38: How to Run A Super Secret Defense Project
We go inside one of DARPA's secret labs and find... a gecko?
30 MIN
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