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The U.S. spends nearly a fifth of its GDP on healthcare, more than any other developed nation. Chronic disease, aging population, childhood obesity and other causes put the system under severe…
In Ron Howard’s brand new Formula 1 car-racing movie Rush, the legendary driver Niki Lauda gives his rival James Hunt a sage piece of advice: “To be a champion, it takes more than just being quick.”…
The Tatooine-like landscape of the M’Sila province in northern Algeria provides the country’s Mediterranean coast with a rugged bulwark against the encroaching Sahara desert. Despite the arid…
Over the last decade the U.S. government has enacted a number of rules designed to reduce smog and air pollution in cities and towns. Many of the regulations focus on two culprits: nitrogen oxide (…
The history of Marshall in East Texas is rich with transportation lore. Several major stagecoach lines stopped there in the 1840s. The crucial Texas & Pacific Railway line originated in Marshall…
When the Czech-born industrial design maven Arthur N. BecVar ran appliance design at GE in the in the 1950s, he warned his team that consumers were too smart to settle for fancy styles and urged them…
Anticipating Sandra Bullock’s problems in Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning feature gravity, a team of GE engineers proposed in the 1960s a design for a single-person space escape pod called Man…
Speaking at last year’s Minds and Machines conference in San Francisco, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said that a global network connecting people, data and machines called the Industrial Internet…
A gas turbine service manual can clock in at 1,000 pages, about the length of a small-type version of War & Peace. Crews often haul the tomes from one remote location to another to do maintenance…
There is more than one way to fly a plane. When the weather is good and the skies are open at the destination airport, pilots can cut costs by loading less fuel and shedding the extra weight. But…