Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best Industries Podcasts We Could Find
Starting from the industrial revolution in the 18th century, the constant development of the industries contributed to improving world's economy as well as to improving the life of people around the world. However, it might be difficult for some people to follow the latest news as the industries progress at a rapid pace. Listening to podcasts can be a good alternative as they are well organized and can be followed anywhere at any period of time. Here you can find podcasts covering the latest trends of all industries, including the agriculture, auto, engineering, health and well-being, fitness and many more industries. Also, you can find interviews of authors, business leaders, scholars, engineers, farmers and experts from other branches, sharing key insights, and revealing their contributions. Most of the podcasts offered in this catalog welcome people from every industry to share their points of view and analyze the latest news and breakthroughs as well as podcast subscribers to pose questions and have their dilemmas resolved.
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Bi-weekly discussions on the latest trends in energy, cleantech, renewables, and the environment from Wood Mackenzie. Hosted by Ed Crooks.
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A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.
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The Engineering Career Coach (TECC) Podcast provides career advice to engineers of all ages and experience levels. Our host for the show, Anthony Fasano, PE and Jeff Perry, MBA interviews engineers ranging from recent engineering graduates to professionals from top engineering organizations on different engineering career goals and challenges. Each show includes a live coaching session with an engineer on real career challenges, and an engineer career-changing tip. Topics covered include but ...
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The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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Earth Eats is a weekly podcast, public radio program and blog bringing you the freshest news and recipes inspired by local food and sustainable agriculture
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Sound Design Live - Career building interviews on live sound, theatre, AV, recording, and sound system tuning
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Build your career as a sound engineer. The podcast for live audio professionals. Interviews with the leading innovators in concert, theatre, and corporate production. Submit your questions: http://buff.ly/Nwpsf0 Nathan Lively is a Career Coach for Audio Professionals, Podcast Consultant for Small Businesses, and Author.
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The CKUA Radio podcast of the GreenEnergyFutures.ca series. The multi-media series is hosted by David Dodge and tells the inspiring stories of Canadians involved in the green energy revolution.
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Helping engineers thrive. Engineering || Management || Leadership || Productivity
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Every week on Power Hour energy philosopher Alex Epstein breaks down today's top energy, environmental, and climate issues.
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The Farming Podcast with Josiah Garber covers topics related to natural farming: gardening, permaculture, homesteading and more. This podcast is focused on natural farming methods.
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The Beginning Farmer Show chronicles the good, bad, and ugly of starting a farm from scratch. Listen each week as beginning farmer Ethan Book share updates from the farm, insight into farm decision making, and lessons that he has had to learn the hard way.
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The Smart Buildings Academy Podcast | Teaching You Building Automation, Systems Integration, and Information Technology
Phil Zito Building Automation and Systems Integration Expert
The weekly podcast where Phil Zito discusses topics related to building automation and provides useful tips and action packed examples to help you better understand building automation.
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Join us for a special series of The Farm Report in collaboration with The National Young Farmers Coalition that's all about The Farm Bill. Tune in to hear from farmers, policymakers, organizers, and food advocates about all the ways the farm bill directly impacts our lives—whether we realize it or not. We’ll break down farm policy and talk to young farmers about what hangs in the balance for them as another Farm Bill gets made. Join our coalition to shift power and change policy for the next ...
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The Infrastructure Show consists of monthly podcasts in which some of the nation’s top infrastructure experts discuss with host Professor Joseph Schofer of Northwestern University the condition of our infrastructure today, and what can be done about it. While many subjects are addressed, including repairs, upgrades and new construction, there is an emphasis on the topics of preventive and predictive maintenance, as well as “structural health monitoring” – a special focus of the Northwestern ...
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Manufacturing is challenging, but if you are connected to a community of leaders, you can elevate your skills, solve your problems and grow your business! MakingChips was launched in 2014 to equip and inspire the metalworking nation. Hundreds of episodes and a million downloads later, it’s an industry-leading source of information, inspiration, and entertainment for manufacturing leaders of all types. It’s hosted by Jason Zenger and Nick Goellner, two multi-generational manufacturing leaders ...
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Discussing recent publications and news in materials science, physics, and engineering fields.
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Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance
Reliability.FM: Accendo Reliability, focused on improving your reliability program and career
Gain the experience of your peers to accelerate improvement of your program and career. Improve your product development process, reliability or warranty performance; or your plant uptime or asset performance. Learn about reliability and maintenance engineering practical approaches, skills, and techniques. Join the conversation today.
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Greenhorns Radio is radio for young farmers, by young farmers. Hosted by acclaimed activist, farmer and film-maker Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Greenhorns Radio is a weekly phone interview with next generation farmers and ranchers, surveying the issues critical to their success. We hold no punches. Greenhorns is a six year old grassroots cultural organization with a mission to recruit, promote and support young farmers in America by producing media, events and stunts that connect and and ...
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This podcast describes the contents of each issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.
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Reliability Engineering Basics, Statistics, Accelerated Testing, Program Assessment and Improvement. Listen in on in depth discussions held during the live monthly Accendo Reliability webinar series. We explore topics ranging from reliability engineering basics, statistics, accelerated life testing, program assessment and improvement. Catch up or review past events below.
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Fresh & Local Podcast – Minneapolis Farmers Market
Host Susan Berkson, Published by the Central Minnesota Vegetable Growers Association
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Energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens is the founder and CEO at BP Capital, an energy-focused investment firm. He’s made billions of dollars and isn’t timid about spreading it around. His philanthropy supports medical research, athletics, and academics. Never shy about expressing his beliefs, Pickens shares his unique, thoughtful and, often provocative, insights on energy and other topics right here on the T. Boone Pickens Channel.
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A no holds barred podcast about women engineers
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The Electronic Engineering Research Podcast
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Catch up on the latest news from the Energy and Renewable sector in the North-east and beyond in the Northsound Energy Week podcast, updated weekly by the Northsound News Team.
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IRRI, or the International Rice Research Institute, is a nonprofit independent research and training organization. IRRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. IRRI develops new rice varieties and rice crop management techniques that help rice farmers improve the yield and quality of their rice in an environmentally sustainable way. We work with our public and private sector partners in national agricultural research and extension systems in major rice-growing countries to do research, training ...
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381. The End of Coal-fired Generation in Alberta - Now What?
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Alberta phased out its coal-fired electricity in record time representing the largest single action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. The trouble is a lot of the coal was replaced by natural gas which produces 60% of the emissions of coal. Can the fossil fuel-infatuated province also capitalize on its amazing renewable energy resources …
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03/07/2024 - Creamery closure, bee numbers, wildflowers, Scottish raspberries
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A creamery which has been producing Stilton since 1780 is due to close its doors with the loss of 60 jobs. Tuxford and Tebbutt in Melton Mowbray is owned by the farmer co-operative Arla, which has been trying to sell the creamery as a going concern.They've blamed the closure on what they say is a decline in the speciality cheese market. Dairy indus…
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02/07/24 - Danish methane tax, Electric Berries and rural/urban voting habits
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Danish farmers are facing a tax on methane from cattle, pigs and slurry. The charges will be based on how many animals a farmer has, and what sort of farming system they use. There will be money available for farmers to introduce technical solutions, such as covering up slurry storage, to reduce emissions. We visit a soft fruit farm in Kent which i…
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Let Drones Do It – Taking on Bridge Inspection
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Bridge inspectors like to get up close and personal to detect small defects that could grow into disasters. The configuration of bridges – their size, height, and locations – can make the job difficult and dangerous. But rapid advances in aerial drones are making it possible to inspect difficult-to-access areas of bridges quickly and safely, reduci…
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Conveying FMEA Results Abstract Carl and Fred discuss an interesting listener question. The listener’s management asked him to create an “eye-popping” chart that summarizes the results on an FMEA. Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss how best to share the results of an FMEA with management or engineering. The emphasis is on visually convey…
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01/07/2024 Fishing industry's election wish list; Breeding bees; Soft fruits
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"Fishing is about food - it's not a conservation problem, or heritage activity, or a hobby" the words of the fishing industry to politicians as we enter the final few days of campaigning before the general election. The National Federation of Fisherman's Organisations is calling for an incoming government to develop a national fishing strategy. Now…
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Welcome back, Matt Venn of the Zero to Asic Course and Tiny Tapeout! (Due to illness and some life stuff happening, my recording setup was crap. Apologies. I also leaned heavily on Matt’s notes, so some of the following links will be out of order. Think of it like an ad hoc scavenger hunt…fun!) Matt was last on the show on episode 616, about 18 mon…
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29/06/2024 - Farming Today This Week: Election Special
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Charlotte Smith hosts an "election special" looking at rural manifesto promises - she explores what's on offer on food, farming, the environment and rural services. She's joined by rural correspondents from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Presented by Charlotte SmithProduced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons…
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MakingSparks: What’s Keeping You Up at Night? An Update from Matthew and Casey, 414
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What’s keeping you up at night? What are you excited about? It’s important to reflect on the good, the bad, and the ugly. Why? First and foremost, to learn from our mistakes. But secondly, to embrace gratitude. Even despite challenges and setbacks, there’s always room for gratefulness and thankfulness. So in this episode of MakingSparks, Casey and …
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Learn about specialty brewing with local fruits at Upland’s Woodshop
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“We use wood so that we give the various microorganisms sort of a place to colonize and live from batch to batch. And over time those colonies and those species that have taken hold will change, they’ll drift and so, you’ll develop a unique character to each tank that’s really interesting.” This week on the show we dive head first into a giant oak …
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How can we finance the energy transition? Discussions from the final day of the Reuters Global Energy Transition Conference 2024
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In this third special episode of the Energy Gang from the Reuters Global Energy Transition 2024 conference in New York, we focus on the crucial theme of financing the energy transition. We discuss how various stakeholders are addressing the financial challenges and opportunities presented by the shift to renewable energy. Our first guest is Utopia …
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Supply Management and Context Abstract Greg and Fred discuss why today’s business model is often based on managing an organization’s brand and outsourcing design, reliability, and quality. Key Points Join Greg and Fred as they discuss supply context and risk. Topics include: Changes in today’s business and operating models. Changes in how suppliers…
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28/06/2024 Election manifestos; Flower farming; Hemlock
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All week we've been looking at party manifestos and politicians' pledges on food and farming. We've head from the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats - today we round up what the other parties are offering the countryside. We meet a family of flower growers in Cornwall who've been farming in the Tamar Valley for half a century. Barry Ri…
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Day Two: The Energy Gang at The Reuters Global Energy Transition Conference 2024
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In this second special episode of Wood Mackenzie's The Energy Gang, recorded at the Reuters Global Energy Transition 2024 conference in New York, we speak with leaders at some of the key companies shaping the energy transition. We hear about how they are tackling the challenge of meeting rising demand for electricity while at the same time reducing…
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27/06/24 Lib Dem's Manifesto, Groundswell regenerative farming, Sark considers Sunday tractors
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All this week we're hearing from the main political parties on what they're offering farmers and rural communities this election. Today it's the turn of the Liberal Democrats who say they'll put an extra £1 billion a year into the agriculture budget. When the Groundswell show started eight years ago it was a small event for the then rather niche 'r…
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381A. King Coal is Dead - Alberta's last coal-fired power plant
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Alberta's last coal-fired power plant stopped burning coal on June 16, 2024 at 10:57 pm. The coal phase-out was originally proposed for 2061, but in 2015 a new target was set for 2030. On June 16 the last lump of coal was burned to produce electricity six years ahead of schedule. The phase-out represents the largest reduction in greenhouse gas emis…
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380B. Cracking the Geothermal Nut -EAVOR building in Germany
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This is huge! EAVOR believes they've cracked the geothermal nut. Using closed-loop technology they have pioneered a new kind of Geothermal that can be built almost anywhere without uncertainty. We look at EAVOR's pilot project in Alberta and their full-scale geothermal plant in Germany that will provide electricity for 8,000 homes and district heat…
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The Energy Gang at the Reuters Global Energy Transition Conference - Day One
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This is a special episode of Wood Mackenzie's The Energy Gang, recorded at the Reuters Global Energy Transition 2024 conference in New York. It has a great lineup of speakers from the worlds of business, finance, and government, giving us an opportunity to talk to some of the key people who are driving the energy transition. One of the panellists o…
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26/06/24 - Labour's Manifesto, regen farming and high yielding wheat
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A "New Deal for Farming" including better trade deals and more public procurement of home grown food - we hear what's in the Labour Party manifesto on farming, the environment and rural communities. It's part of a series of political interviews with the main parties that will run on the programme across the week. Groundswell is the biggest UK event…
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Understanding (how bad) the Exponential Distribution (is) podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson We often use probability distributions to help us characterize the likely values a random variable will have. This includes the random variable we call time to failure' or TTF, which is how long something works before it fails. Failure is a random p…
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25/06/24 - Conservative manifesto, venison in school and dormice reintroductions
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An extra billion pounds across the next Parliament for farming and legally binding targets on food production - we hear what's in the Conservative Party manifesto on farming, the environment and rural communities. It's part of a series of political interviews with the main parties that will run on the programme across the week. Learning about food …
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Telling the Boss NO Abstract Greg and Fred discuss work communications and job politics. Greg takes the management point of view. Fred advocates the individual contributor point of view. Key Points Have you ever told your boss ‘NO’? Join Greg and Fred as they discuss boss requirements and individual work expectations. Topics include: How to share b…
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Interview with Mendel Rosenberg of Gearsupply about how to get the best deals on used production hardware without getting scammed or violating tax laws.http://sounddesignlive.com/By Nathan Lively - Online Courses for Live Sound Engineers ?
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22/06/24 - The Royal Highland Show, UK salads and heritage wheat
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The 240th Royal Highland Show is taking place just outside Edinburgh, and more than 200,000 people expected to attend over the 4 days of the show. We hear from some of the breeders showing cattle at the show. In 2022, the UK grew 162,000 tonnes of lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers and celery - worth more than 200 million pounds. This time…
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How to Adapt CNC Training for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Leaders - Part 2, 413
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Gamification. Gamification is a highly successful strategy in the world of marketing. It’s used all the time to enhance engagement in children’s education. How can we apply gamification concepts to manufacturing education? Mike Payne, Paul Van Metre, Gabe Kooyers, and Chris Townsend joined me in this discussion and nailed down some incredible ways …
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Historian Rebecca Spang on the strange origins of the restaurant
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“The dominant vocabulary for talking about restaurants is ‘what food do they serve, what are the good dishes?’ People think that’s the only thing that’s important about restaurants.” Today on the show we talk with Historian Rebecca Spang, about the origins of restaurants, and what they mean to us today. “The experience just of knowing that there ar…
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Reliability in a Short Term Org Abstract Chris and Fred discuss the problems we experience when we are in an organization with very ‘short-term’ thinking. What can we do? Key Points Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how challenging it can be to work in an organization that perhaps one day had a long-term goal or vision, but now has a vicious focu…
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Charlotte Smith visits the Royal Highland Show for its 240th year to talk cattle, politics and farmers' health. Produced by Beatrice Fenton.By BBC Radio 4
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Sideshow Bob (simpsons) HERIC Inverter Review Fraunhofer HERIC inverter Dave’s video about the CH32V003 Charles episode Altium is increasing the price of their product (by 2x??) HITECH compiler from Microchip Newfound Warp13 Webrings, Blog roll, StumbleUpon Dontronics amazing siteBy The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
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19/06/24 - Re-doing the Green Revolution, the Landworkers' Alliance manifesto and horticulture training
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Could the plant breeding achievements of the Green Revolution be started again from scratch? That's the hope of scientists at the John Innes Centre, who say modern commercial varieties of wheat used by farmers could be replaced with better ones, using wheat lines collected a century ago. Back in the 1920s, an enterprising plant scientist named Arth…
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18/06/24 - Contaminated salad leaves, UK grown tomatoes and Soil Association election manifesto
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A recent E-coli outbreak is thought to have been caused by contaminated salad leaves. There have been over 200 confirmed cases of food poisoning across the UK caused by e-coli bacteria found in manure, with nearly half those affected admitted to hospital. So how does the bacteria get into the salad, and what are farmers doing to prevent it? As part…
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Eye-Popping Stunning Results Abstract Chris and Fred discuss the challenge of being asked by someone to show (or visualize) stunning, eye-popping results for some reliability activity. How do we do this? Is this possible? Key Points Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how we go about demonstrating stunning, eye-popping results for the amount of res…
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17/06/24 Salad sales down, farming in the party manifestos, dung beetle conference
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With the rain continuing and below average temperatures, the outlook isn't so sunny for UK salad growers. We look at some of the detail in the main parties' manifestos to see what they're promising on issues like the agriculture budget, food security and England's badger cull. Sometimes described as a farmer's best friend, dung beetles consume, bur…
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15/06/24 - Reproductive ethics in livestock, dog DNA and seed breeding
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Three UK vet practices are now offering IVF for cows. It's a common practise for dairy cows to be made pregnant using artificial insemination, but IVF is more specialist. It allows for multiple embryos to be produced from one particularly good cow, meaning the genetics of a herd can be improved more quickly and its health and productivity improved.…
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380A. Geothermal breakthrough - heat and power anywhere
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EAVOR has pioneered a new kind of geothermal that can provide heat and power almost anywhere on the planet. This could be the missing link in the energy revolution that could not only help electricity get to net-zero. It also helps solve the even bigger challenge of how to heat buildings with zero emissions.We talk to Jeanine Vany of EAVOR, a compa…
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How to Adapt CNC Training for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Leaders - Part 1, 412
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How do we train the next generation of manufacturing leaders so employers are ready to hire them immediately? Do students still need to learn manual machinery? Or do employers only want skilled CNC machinists? These are just a few questions we dissect in this conversation with special guest and long-term educator Gabe Kooyers. Because if we’re not …
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Check out the Circuit Break Podcast for show notes Parker Dillman Stephen Kraig James LewisBy The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
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Palm oil is everywhere–Max Haiven talks about why that matters
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“When you begin to zoom out, you realize that in fact palm oil is all around us, and the world, in a strange way, is made of palm oil; and we’re all, in a certain way, made of palm oil–in the sense that we use it to reproduce our bodies and to clean our skin and to live the lives that we live in a globalized world.” This week on the show, a convers…
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New Position Advice Abstract Kirk and Fred discuss the advice we would give a engineer just starting a career in Reliability Engineering Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the way to best way to learn and apply the many tools and methodology of reliability engineering. Topics include: First seek to understand the history of failures in t…
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14/06/24 IVF in dairy cows, CLA election manifesto, flooding, Kate Humble at the Hay Festival
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The vets using IVF to improve dairy herds, and could a new 2-stage planning system help kickstart the rural economy? We hear from the CLA on what it wants from the next government.In a special episode of On Your Farm recorded at the Hay Festival, Kate Humble explains how she accidentally ended up buying a council farm in the beautiful Wye Valley in…
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13/06/24 Farm vets and the strain of TB; Wildlife Trusts election wish list; Dog DNA
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We’re talking about vets all this week and one of the most difficult and unpleasant jobs they face is dealing with serious illness and disease in livestock, like the devastating foot and mouth outbreak in 2001. Breaking the painful news to a farmer that their whole livelihood is under threat is something no one wants on their job description. The t…
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12/06/24 - Cereals 2024, the arable event
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Post-Brexit trade barriers are leaving the UK behind when it comes to introducing new varieties of crops - according to the British Society of Plant Breeders. Anna Hill reports from the arable event, Cereals 2024, where seed breeding is centre stage. After one of the wettest years on record left many farmers have been struggling to get out into the…
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Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg Let's make a comparison. Let's check our product's key characteristics against specifications, compare vendor life data, or compare the newest design changes to prior performance. We can and should do comparisons well using the appropriate statistical approach. Let's …
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Two books that are essential reading for energy wonks give contrasting views on how to tackle climate change. The hot book in the energy world right now is Brett Christophers’ The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. It’s a detailed look at the structural issues in electricity markets and the challenges of generating returns on ren…
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11/06/24 - Graphene from slurry, bluetongue and vet recruitment
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In a world first, methane from slurry on a dairy farm in Somerset is being broken down and turned into hydrogen gas and graphene. The farm involved is Worthy Farm, which hosts the Glastonbury Festival. It already has an anaerobic digester which uses slurry from their dairy cows to make methane which is used to make electricity, and now also used to…
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Reliability Allocation Methods Abstract Kirk and Fred discuss reliability allocations for individual components and subsystems. Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss a question from one of our listeners and why solid state electronics and mechanical systems have significant differences in the intrinsic life entitlements and have to be analy…
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10/06/24 Calls for a bigger farming budget, closure of another Cornish fish market, farm vets.
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Farmers need more money - so says the National Farmers' Union which says the incoming Government should increase the agriculture budget. Over the next few weeks as well as hearing from politicians about what they propose for farming, the environment and rural communities, we're also going to hear from rural and wildlife groups about what they think…
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08/06/24 - Farming Today This Week: UK pollinators, bark beetle and NI water pollution
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Spruce trees may not be viable in the UK in the long term because of a pest which is now in the country. Restrictions on spruce trees have been extended after spruce bark beetles were found in East Anglia. The beetle was first found the the UK in 2018 and areas of the South East of England have been under restriction - that has now been extended to…
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Did you know that only about 6% of welders are women? Women bring a much-needed perspective and expertise to the table. So how do we get more women in welding? NIX has actively been trying to recruit, hire, and retain more women. In this episode of MakingSparks, we sit down with Tori Guzman and Aubree Beyer to hear what they think we can do—or cont…
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Beth Hoffman speaks frankly on the financial challenges of farming [replay]
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“It’s a great thing to be outside, to have birds chirping, to be around green grass, and animals. But the problem has become, that you can’t really be a business unless you are a financially viable business.” This week on the show we explore the economics of small scale farming, and debunk some of the myths of the agrarian lifestyle. We talk with B…
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