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Posted on - “Where do great ideas come from?” Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us on a journey to explore a possible mathematical scheme that explains the birth of the new. Learn more about the “adjacent possible” — the crossroads of what’s actual and what’s possible — and how studying the math that drives it could explain how we create new ideas.
There’s a massive debate going on in the medical world, with regards to the BRCA patent. Many claim that the two gene patents, unlawfully stifle both innovation and basic science. But given the history of patent rulings in America, that has been a fringe argument—until now. Federal district court judge Robert Sweet in New York made a ruling…
The concept of Overall Equipment Effectiveness was first written about in 1989 from a book called TPM Development Program – Implementing Total Productive Maintenance, edited by Seiichi Nakajima from the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance. This was translated from the Japanese book TPM tenkai published in 1982. Prior to Overall Equipment Effectiveness, people monitored equipment…
When was the last time you played Jenga? Maybe you set it up with your kids on a rainy Sunday afternoon, or maybe you idly played it with friends at a brewery. Either way, after you built up this precarious tower of wooden blocks, you had one goal: to keep it from falling down. As…
It’s not even the morning of New Year’s Day and already there’s talk in supply-chain circles of the 2023 hangover. “There’s a reliability hangover,” Bill Seward, the new president of supply-chain solutions at United Parcel Service, said in an interview. He was referring to lingering headaches from more than two years of shipping congestion, delivery disruptions and…
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Too much screen time, too many video calls and too few boundaries make remote working hard for all of us. Podcast host and writer Morra Aarons-Mele shares honest advice on what you can learn from the introverts in your life about protecting your energy and your limits. Watch Full TED Talk here…
The Economist takes us on a journey into the factory of the future. Now, even though some countries are urging government to boost domestic industry, trouble is, most policymakers don’t understand modern manufacturing, let alone how technology is transforming it. Yet, the Economist predicts that in the future, more manufactured products will be packaged with…
