Sharing the Ascension Experience
Jacqui’s Preemie Pride is a Labor of Love. The journey with a preemie is a hard one, but babies are sooo resilient. Born two months early in 1985, Jacqui stayed in the NICU at Georgetown University Hospital for five weeks. Then, she spent another ten days in a level two NICU unit at Shady Grove … Read more
We started out in a garage, not because it would make for a nice story about humble beginnings, but because the company was literally trapped in a garage. Both doors were jammed. The whole structure was encased in concrete. The only way out required MacGyver-esque heroics. Lacking the paper clips and pudding to create an … Read more
It’s a tiny geodesic dome built for a grand total of two hundred bucks by Jeffery the builder at Aprovecho, ” a regional resource for researching, demonstrating, and educating the techniques and strategies of sustainable living” that will be a story on its own. “To begin the project I constructed a nine-foot, ten sided deck … Read more
In Singapore, the challenge of feeding a growing population is pushing the concept of urban farming to new heights. A super-efficient vertical farming system is producing greens for 5 million residents. “Can we supply enough food for everyone on the planet?” is a question plaguing leaders around the world. In Singapore SkyGreen offers one example … Read more
A new means of generating electricity, one that utilizes bacteria to harness the energy of evaporating water, has been created by researchers from the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The method could potentially be used to capture the energy released by ponds, harbors, and other bodies of water when the Sun … Read more
5 Ways To Collaborate Effectively Improve how your project team works together with these quick tips. #1: Don’t rely on email It’s tempting to rely on email when you have a team split across several locations. Email makes it easy to copy everyone in and it is fast. But it isn’t an effective way to … Read more
From womb to tomb we are bound to others past and present … and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. — Cloud Atlas, David Stephen Mitchell (1960-) Author In the extremes and the opposites we find the balance. We need a bit of stress to help us acquire a Stress Hardy … Read more
Nickel titanium, also known as nitinol, is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages. Nitinol alloys exhibit two closely related and unique properties: shape memory and superelasticity (also called pseudoelasticity). Shape memory is the ability of nitinol to undergo deformation at one temperature, then … Read more
For years, one of the best ways to achieve the open-plan bedroom has been to install a Murphy bed—a hinged bed that folds vertically into a wall closet when not in use. Various legends have it that in the early 20th century, William Lawrence Murphy applied for a patent on the device, which he devised … Read more
The past is already incorporated in me. — Dr. George Sheehan (1918-1993) Cardiologist We do have some language difficulties. This week’s qualities are Brotherly and Accommodating. In order to be accommodating I have also added “Sisterly” below. Maybe I should put both of them under siblingesque. Have a good week. Peace, Jim BROTHERLY Definitions: … Read more