by Bill Freeman
The Petroleum Extraction Industry (PEI) provides the fossil fuel energy that regulates the heart beat of the United States economy. Over the past number of years, energy independence from fossil fuels has not been achievable in the United States (U.S.). This is why foreign imports are still necessary to meet our energy needs.
As…
Adapted from an article by James Keith Johnson
In pilot training we learned that a small initial error at the point of origin can result in a very large lateral error when one should be arriving at the destination. For example, a one degree initial error will result in a one nautical mile lateral deviation for…
When does watching the profit margin become taking advantage of the customer? When does one cross the line from environmental awareness into a lack of integrity in technology? What would you make of a company that replaces anything interior to the device with recycled parts, but parts on the outside with brand new?
There is no…
When does watching the profit margin become taking advantage of the customer? When does one cross the line from environmental awareness into a lack of integrity in technology? What would you make of a company that replaces anything interior to the device with recycled parts, but parts on the outside with brand new?
There is no doubt…
Want to know how to succeed in school without learning the material?
Have we got a website for you–50 ways technology can help you cheat! As they say, lots of students do it and many claim that it isn’t even wrong.
During an exam you can use earphones or your smartphone to connect with friends outside the…
Dr. Han Zhiwu of Chanchun, China is fascinated by scorpions. And rightly so. These little creatures have armor that enables them to withstand sandstorms that would strip the paint away from steel.
Apparently, their chitin covering is formed of tiny “dome-shaped granules” which seem to be designed to disturb surface airflow so that sand particles are deflected and erosion is…
Dr. Han Zhiwu of Chanchun, China is fascinated by scorpions. And rightly so. These little creatures have armor that enables them to withstand sandstorms that would strip the paint away from steel.
Apparently, their chitin covering is formed of tiny “dome-shaped granules” which seem to be designed to disturb surface airflow so that sand particles are deflected and erosion is…
How many of us work in high rise buildings? How many drive over bridges to get there? Chances are that none of our lives are untouched by engineers. We depend upon them knowing how to do their jobs and having the ethics to do them well. But do they?
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher…
If you have been to the Midwest, you will have the rows and rows of crops indelibly impressed on your memory. You will also remember that many fields are marked–by a sign proclaiming which company manufactured the seed.
One of these seed companies has drawn AITSE’s attention; they have been making the news–because of their ethics–or…
In a fascinating article in the Economist, technology is compared to a sea urchin with “long spines of ability [radiating] out towards specific needs…” However, because these spines grow unevenly and there is little between them, technological catastrophes are inevitable. Therefore, they suggest that it is important for companies that develop and use new technologies…
The International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) has been thinking outside the box and, in doing so, is making progress in the search for a solution to the problem of MRSA and other antibiotic resistant bacteria. Traditional antibiotics interfere with various cell functions: DNA replication, protein synthesis, cell wall construction, etc. But, as explained above, bacteria often…
“I arrived to chaos–people were desperately boarding trains trying to get out of there. My grandmother found me after a couple of days, wandering around the station. Soon afterwards I came down with a high fever. My mom was called because they thought I would die. I didn’t, but now I sometimes wonder if cancer…
Did you know that the USA alone boasts of approximately 25,000 commercial airline flights per day? And, according to a Boeing website, there are 18 million per day worldwide. Each of these vehicles has at least one highly-trained pilot, or so we would hope.
But in shocking news from India, it appears that this is not…
By Caroline Crocker
I first came across quantum dots when working in cancer research for the Department of Defense. We used them to label different structures on our cells–and they were so new that I actually saw them demonstrated at an educational seminar at the National Institutes of Health. Now the plan is for them to…
Every couple of years thousands of people load their cars with sleeping bags, lawn chairs, food, drink, and more, make their way to the nearest mall, and settle down to spend the night. Others get up at 4 am, again navigating their way to a shopping center. These unfortunates then wait in line for hours…
by AITSE Consortium member Walter Myers III
If you haven’t heard the term “cloud computing” already, then you’re missing out on the next big trend in computation. Cloud computing is essentially web-based software and services delivered by a third party on the Internet (“the cloud”). The beauty of cloud computing is the massive scale that can be achieved by…
