by Leroy Hurt | Oct 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Initially found via Instapundit: …one of the most effective ways to distract ourselves from a tempting pleasure we don’t want to indulge is by focusing on another pleasure. So the next time you find yourself confronted with a temptation–whether a piece of...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Forbes: Companies are beginning to target women for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) because women are currently tremendously under-represented in these areas. Women And STEM Careers: How Microsoft Is Building A Bridge To Future...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Technology Review: Rebooting Manufacturing – Technology Review Optimists will say this will create careers that didn’t exist before. Pessimists will say more people will end up out of work.
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via the New York Times: …pain thresholds, [are] an indirect but generally accepted marker of endorphin production. If someone’s pain threshold rises, he or she is presumed to be awash in the natural analgesics. And in Dr. Dunbar’s experiments, pain thresholds did go...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Wired: Product failure is deceptively difficult to understand. It depends not just on how customers use a product but on the intrinsic properties of each part—what it’s made of and how those materials respond to wildly varying conditions. Estimating a product’s...
