Author: John
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California shipping container tiny home & cargo trailer room
from fair companies: California shipping container tiny home & cargo trailer room Lulu is a single mom who’d gone back to school and didn’t have the time or interest in working full-time to pay for rent. So when she had to move out of her more conventional home, she decided to move herself and her…
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Happy National Engineer’s Week
It’s National Engineers Week (February 19-25)! To celebrate, MIT PressLog conducted a series of Q&As with the authors of their new Engineering Systems series books, which they will post over the next couple of days. Read all the rest on their site, a site I have been reading for as long as I remember and…
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Engineering simulates what it is like to be 75
What’s it like to be 75 years old? The folks at MIT have a way to work with that issue. Read the full article and see related links, and wonderful things, by J The U.S. population of persons 65 years or older numbered 39.6 million in 2009 and is expected to increase to 72.1 million…
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The Future of Work as it Affects Facilities Managers
I saw this article today on Gigaom by Jessica Stillman as she writes on the changes in the future of work and cautions Facilities Managers not to get left behind (NFMLB?). Walker Engineering provides professional facilities management and we agree with Jim Ware that it isn’t keeping the lights on but supporting work wherever it occurs, and…
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Obvious Science Findings of 2011
Find the full article at uh! 11 Obvious Science Findings of 2011, By Stephanie Pappas and LiveScience | December 31, 2011 | In science, it’s not enough to think something is so. Researchers must show that what we believe to be true is in fact true, proven through statistically significant and reproducible results. Questioning assumptions is,…