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By Heidi Schwartz, on September 4, 2009, at 9:20 am
It’s the end of Summer ’09, and people are starting to get back to reality. Kids are going back to school, manufacturing is gearing up for a tenuous economic recovery, and engineers are doing what they do best–”MacGyver”-ing whatever they can to keep things chugging along.
Continue reading FRIDAY FUNNY: Engineering Ingenuity
By Heidi Schwartz, on July 8, 2009, at 10:25 am
In the early hours of Saturday, June 27, 2009, something seriously wrong happened to a nearly completed 13 story block of residential flats in the suburbs of Shanghai. No, it wasn’t destroyed by Transformers.
Continue reading WEIRD WEDNESDAY: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
By Heidi Schwartz, on March 20, 2009, at 9:41 am
Typically, facility managers appreciate the classic Murphy’s Laws (which go back as far as 1841, according to Wikipedia, but were formalized in 1877 at a meeting of an engineering society). This week, we have Peter SJF Bance to thank (again) for these lesser known laws from Murphy.
Continue reading FRIDAY FUNNY: Murphy’s Lesser Known Laws
By Heidi Schwartz, on October 6, 2008, at 9:56 am
By Heidi Schwartz, on September 10, 2008, at 10:43 am
Early this morning, science was made in a remote part of Europe. Some of you may have seen the video last Friday, and others may have heard about it on the news, but today was the day when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) did its thing…with a bang.
Continue reading WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Inside The Particle Accelerator
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