Everyday Explained
Everyday Explained: Your daily 20-minute dive into the fascinating hows and whys of the world around you. From water towers to mountain formation, discover something new, five days a week!
Recent Episodes
Aug. 6, 2025
Wind-Resistant Skyscrapers: Design, CFD, GA, Dampers
This podcast details wind-resistant structural optimization for irregular tall buildings, aiming for sustainable, cost-effective design. It explains evaluating wind loads via Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and performing ...
Aug. 5, 2025
Traffic Signals: Sensors, Preemption & Coordination
This podcast explains traffic signal operations, detailing various detection sensors like inductive loops, video detection cameras, and radar. It covers different signal types including pre-timed, semi-actuated, fully actuate...
Aug. 4, 2025
Youth Social Media & Internet Addiction: Brain & Mental Health
This podcast examines social media addiction and internet addiction, particularly affecting youth, college students, and teenagers. It explores the role of dopamine and the brain's reward pathways in fostering compulsive over...
Aug. 1, 2025
Headache Types, Causes, & Treatment: Migraine & Chronic
This podcast comprehensively details various headache types, including over 150 classifications such as primary and secondary headaches. It specifically covers common types like migraine, tension-type, cluster, hypnic, exerti...
July 31, 2025
Bird Sounds: Songs, Calls, Meanings, & Identification
This audio overview describes Bird Sounds, differentiating between Songs and Calls, their Meanings and Purposes (such as mating, territory defense, and alarm), and how they are used for Identification. It also touches on how ...
July 30, 2025
Placebo Power: Belief, Brain, Health & Healing
This podcast describes the placebo effect, a fascinating phenomenon illustrating the mind’s capacity to influence physical health and healing. It reveals how belief and expectation can lead to genuine changes in the brain and...