Bart Weetjens
Industrial engineer, Zen Buddhist monk and founder of APOPO
Bart Weetjens (Industrial engineer, Zen Buddhist monk and founder of APOPO) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include APOPO, Landmine detection.
In their words
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APOPO
Weetjens says APOPO can train rats at a fifth of the cost of a demining dog.
“We can train rats at a fifth of the price of a trained demining dog”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 46:58
Landmine detection
Weetjens says rats are exceptionally suited to detection because of their olfactory genetics.
“Rats have more genetic material allocated to olfaction than any other mammal species”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 47:27
Appearances
The shocking power of tiny thingsTED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.
Often appears with
- Manoush Zomorodi · 1 shared episode
- Anne Madden · 1 shared episode
- Lera Boroditsky · 1 shared episode
- YeYoon Kim · 1 shared episode