There appears to be a wide-ranging rebuttal emerging against social media. While I’ve had this blog for nearly 12 years, I have never embraced the real-time social media ‘mob’. As I’ve written before, I use Feedly as my custom newsreader
Category: Engineering
Dishwashers and Hard Water
Our water in Montgomery County, Ohio is about 120 ppm of particulates, which is considered moderately hard. This means that the ‘clean’ water that enters our home suds up with soap in a reasonable fashion, but calcium compounds form on
3D Printing of Ceramics
An interesting article about 3D printing of ceramics for making aerospace parts (full disclosure: yours truly appears in the story).
3D Printing for DoD Replacement Parts
Here’s an interesting story: Renaissance Services, an Ohio-based enterprise systems integrator for aerospace and defense companies, has received an Air Force contract to support production of gearboxes and housings for out-of-production aircraft and engines using 3D printed ceramic molds. Source:
Is Meritocracy Bad?
Some of these people are just plainly “off their rockers”… A math education professor at Brooklyn College contends in a recent academic article that “meritocracy” in math classes is a “tool of whiteness.” Laurie Rubel implicates both meritocracy and “color-blindness”
Journalists vs Engineers
It’s an interesting contrast between the journalists from New York and the engineers in Ohio…
Microsoft on Google
This is an interesting development: Chromebook users looking for an alternative to Google’s set of editing tools can now turn to Microsoft Office, which is finally available on Chromebooks. The suite of office apps—Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook—has been available
Does Reality Matter Anymore?
We are supposed to be living in this golden age of technology where it provides us with great insights — artificial intelligence, machine learning, and business analytics. These are activities that are all based on dealing with large amounts of
Flowers in Our Garden
As a follow-up to the previous posting on our efforts with horticulture (found here), I’ve included photos of the various flowers that we’ve raised in our Ohio summer garden (mostly from seeds):
Putting More than $100 Million into Library Facilities
In this day and age when hard-copy printed media is disappearing, the Dayton Daily News shares an article about investing $64M for a new downtown library. The story is subtitled “What taxpayers are getting for their money.” While the facilities