Landmine detection
Subject in Science
Landmine detection has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Bart WeetjensIndustrial engineer, Zen Buddhist monk and founder of APOPO
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
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
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.