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Author Archives: Nancy Pardo
RoboBee Could Be Used to Pollinate Plants
Albert Einstein once predicated that without bees man would have only four years left on the planet. But mechanical engineer Robert Wood and graduate student Kevin Ma might disagree. The two engineers and their Harvard-based team have created a small robot no bigger than a house fly. The tiny robot, half the size of a paper clip and weighing only …
Manufacturing Growth Holds Less Promise for Women
Today in the United States more women graduate college, they make up nearly half of the working population, and one-third of women out-earn their spouse. So why are women losing their footing in the manufacturing sector? A report released this week by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., vice chair of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) seeks to answer this …
World’s biggest 3D Printing Store Opens in London
If you ever wondered what the next-generation FedEx or OfficeMax might look like then the new 2,500 square-foot iMakr store in Central London might be it. The bright loft space is filled with a variety of 3D printers, like the $1,000 Solidoodle and the Makerbot Replicator 2, costing close to $3000. There are hands-on workshops where curious shoppers can learn …
Lockheed Martin Helps Tackle Global Water Crisis
Earth, otherwise known as the blue planet, is 75 percent surface water, and yet only 2.5 percent of it is usable fresh water. Now add in over population and urban sprawl, deforestation, climate change, and unsustainable agricultural and manufacturing practices, and we’ll have, within the next few decades, a global water crisis. In fact, by 2050, one in five developing …
World’s Greenest Building Opens Its Doors in Seattle
The Bullitt Center in Seattle, WA opened its doors to the general public this week. The six-story, 50,000 square foot building—being touted as the greenest in the world—is designed to be completely self-sustaining in energy and water. It’s also free from toxic materials like PVC, cadmium, lead, mercury, and formaldehyde. It’s hoped that the 30 million dollar Bullitt Center, which …
Keeping Pace with China’s Shifting Economy
Ten years ago the United States had it made in China, literally and figuratively. Back then, manufacturing in China cost 25 to 30 percent less than it did in the U.S. But times are changing. By 2015, outsourcing manufacturing to China will be just as costly as manufacturing in the U.S., that according to consulting firm AlixPartners. Wage inflation, exchange-rate …
Built-In Vacuum Trumps Everything at New York Auto Show
This week’s New York International Auto Show had all the usual suspects: fantastic electric and hybrid models, new software, even Jerry Seinfeld’s 1964 Porsche 911 made it onto the show floor. But by far and away the most impressive, the most innovative, the most fantastic, was Honda’s 2014 Odyssey minivan, which, wait for it… comes with the world’s first ever …
If We Could Hear Pi, What Would It Sound Like?
Today is Pi Day, and because I don’t know a whole lot about math, but I do know something about music and movement, here’s a selection of videos that celebrate Pi through music. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! “Pi in Base 12 – Part 1 – Overture” from the Pi Music Project: Pi taken to …
Video Games Help Promote Engineering and Science
All over the world more and more of us are playing video games. According to a Business Insights report, by 2015 they’ll be 150 million social gamers in the United States alone. Sixty-seven percent of American households play video games, with the average gamer spending eight hours per week playing games. And there’s no turning back the tide. The gaming …
Shouldn’t We Know What a Meteor Is?
Today I happened across the March edition of Space Watch, a newsletter sent out by the Space Foundation. The top story—entitled Not Necessarily Smarter Than the Dinosaurs—got my attention. The article turned out to be an impassioned editorial from Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham on the poor state of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) policy in the United States, …
