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  • The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink

    Science experts rank the refrigerator as Invention #1. An Egyptian ploughman, circa 1200 BC (Wikimedia Commons) The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, had a question: What are the most meaningful innovations in humanity’s culinary history? What mattered more to the development of civilization’s cultivation of food: the oven? The fridge? The plough?…

  • The Eyes Have It in Modern Office Design

    The article in the NYTimes, Aging of Eyes Is Blamed for Range of Health Woes, has caused us to think here at Walker Engineering about our own personal layouts as well as those of our clients. THE HYPOTHESIS Ellen Weinstein The aging eye filters out blue light, affecting circadian rhythm and health in older adults.…

  • 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…

  • Kölsch, a Summer Beer

    Walker Engineering has been experimenting with local beers in an attempt to determine the appropriate Summer Beer for company social events.  Mind you, we live in Portland and summer has not started yet, but it might any minute.  We have selected Kölsch for this summer.  There is a nice article in the NYTimes summarizing the…

  • Easy Exercises You Can Do At Your Desk

    While researching activity one can do at work, I stumbled across this recent article titled 20+ Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk on Mashable.  I have to agree with their labeling this a favorite, it turned out to be ours as well.  But the important point we took away was to review Video Sites…