What Bart Weetjens has said about Landmine detection
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 9, 2026
Bart Weetjens, Industrial engineer, Zen Buddhist monk and founder of APOPO, has been quoted on Landmine detection once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
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
Episodes
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.
Bart Weetjens on other topics
- APOPO · 1 quote