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From 1999 to 2005 Bill broadcast nearly 200 commentates on public radio. They are list here thematically:
Inventions & inventors
Computers & Information Technology
Food & Cooking
Art, Literature & Music
Energy & Environment
Flight
Stamps
Technology & Society
Toys, Sports, Travel & Entertainment
Engineering Methods & Design
Air conditioning
Betamax vs VHS
Hazel Bishop
Blue LED
Bose wave radio
Coffee makers
Color Film Chemistry
Composting Toilets
Concrete
Constance Tipper and fracture mechanics
Contact lenses
Cornstarch Packing Peanuts
Cruise Control
Directional Sound
Duct tape
Dvorak keyboard
Dyson Vacuums
George Eastman and Kodak
Elevators
Philo Farnsworth and Television
Gas lighting
Geiger Counters
Glass
Glo-sheet
Gore-Tex
GPS
Grain elevators
High-tech swimsuit
Jack Kilby
Jell-O
Bob Kearns
Lava Lamp
Maclaren Strollers
Margaret Knight and Paper bags
Matches
Mauve
Memory Metals
Moen facuets
Mood Rings
Neon Lighting
Nylon
O-rings
Phillips Screws
Photocopier
Plastic bottle
Pop can top
Pop Rocks Candy
Projectiles
Pumpkin masters
Rapid prototyping
Razor
RFID
Scotch tape dispenser
Sliced Bread
Spam
Steadicam
Superglue
Super soaker
Surveillance tags
Television Remote Control
Tupperware
Typewriters
Ultrasound imaging
Vacuum Cleaners
Vaseline
Velcro
Video games
The Volkswagen Beetle
Waring Blender
Wind-Up Radio
The Beatles
Leonardo da Vinci
eBooks
Fahrenheit 451
Hammond organ
Pompeii the Novel
Project Gutenberg
Reading Jekyll and Hyde
The Saxophone
Thermin
TiVo
Tolkien and Technology
Zildjian Cymbals
Anthrax
Cigarette machine
Clocks Conquer the World
Color reproduction and determinism
Coltan
Container Ships
Counting Crowds
Cryonics
Diapers
The Electric Chair
Escapement
Face Recognition Software
Flu vaccine
Genetically Modified Food
Gridlock Sam
HeLa Cells
Housework
jefferson and Science
Laundry Machines
Machine guns
Thomas Midgley
Numbers and Life
Plain Old Telephone Service
Potholes
PZEV
Railroads
Risk
Roman Engineering
SARS
The Science of Easter and Passover
Technology and Terrorism
The Electronic Paper Trail of Terrorism
Voting machines & gambling
Voting & Paper
Waterless Urinals
Atomic Clocks
Cell phone
Computer Mouse
Digital Data
Disk vs Disc
Fiber optics
Google
The Internet and Public Key Encryption
Ipod and IP
Iridium satellites
The LEO Computer
Linux
Monocultures and viruses
Moore’s Law
MUZAK
Open Source Software
Adam Osborne
J.R. Pierce and Satellites
Postscript: Apple’s Killer App
The Queen of Voice mail
Rolodex
Claude Shannon
The Social Impact of Electronic Communications
Spam email
Thomas Stockham
The Telegraph
Text Messages
The Birth of e-mail
Voice Over IP and 911
Who controls the internet?
Yeats and radio
Batteries in the Refrigerator
Blackout
Blackout Report
Electric cars
The Environment and microchips
Hydrogen-Powered Cars
Landfills
Local Power Plants
Los Angeles and water
Nitrogen Fixation
Proven Oil Reserves
Wind Energy
Baseball Stats
Bicycle
Ferris Wheels
Frisbee
Glowing Hockey Puck
Head Skis
The Ice Hotel
The Lego Toy Company
Nautilus Machines
Olympics & Technology
Olympic Torch
Ping Putter
Roller Coasters
SCUBA diving
Slinky
Terry Bicycles
Tour de France
Clarence Birdseye
Champagne
Cooking a Turkey
Corks
Ice cream
Microwave Oven
Black Boxes
Boeing vs. Airbus
Concorde
Jet Takeoff
Private Space Flights
Shuttle landing
Stall warning
Zeppelins
Bathtub
Bolts
Celebrating old technologies
Demolition
Henry Dreyfuss
Erector sets
Green Design
Mathematics of Lines
Nanotechnology
New vs. Old Technology
Packaging
Plasmas
Production Engineering
Sears Tower
Shower Curtains
Strobe photography
Swatch
Technological Optimism
tunnels
Why a Chair?
Richard Feynman
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Barbara McClintock
John von Neumann
