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| Podcast title | Caltech: TecherTrax
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| Description | Welcome to TecherTrax. Get to know the Caltech students and faculty...who and what inspires them as well as what keeps them busy -- in the lab, the classroom and around campus. It's the inside track on the real Caltech experience, pranks and all. | |
| Updated | Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:05:14 -0400 | |
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| Category | Education Science & Medicine |
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1. House Life download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Freshman housing. It's notorious. Across the United States, freshmen are placed in dorms they don't like with roomates they like less. At Caltech they have a different approach. Find out how Techers dodge dorm-life debacles and create community amongst the eight extremely unique campus houses. |
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2. DARPA: Team Caltech download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Meet the bleary-eyed members of Team Caltech. They spent over a year creating Alice, a vehicle that drives herself. "It was a lot like teaching my sister how to drive," says Laura Lindzey, an undergraduate who had no programming experience when she started. Alice competed at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, an autonomous vehicle race that snaked through 150 miles of Nevada scrubland. Despite a $2 million prize, students say they were more driven by the learning process involved in building a brain on wheels. |
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3. Feynman: The First Rockstar Scientist download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Perhaps no one embodies Caltech more than physicist Richard Feynman. "A continuing, rolling seminar," is how one professor remembers the Nobel Prize winner, who played bongo drums, cracked safes, and challenged students to use intuition before equations. Feynman loved puzzles, and in a storied career that spanned from the Manhattan Project to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster investigation, was hired to solve them. In this episode, students and professors remember the man whose fearlessness, fun and irreverence took the stuffiness out of being a scientist. |
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