"Send lawyers, guns, and money... to get me out of this." -- Warren Zevon
When the mythical narrator in the above-quoted Warren Zevon tune found himself in a bit of trouble, he knew he needed three things: "lawyers, guns, and money."
Innovation, likewise, has its own magic triumvirate solution. But in the case of innovation, it's not "lawyers, guns and money" -- it's brokers, role models, and risk-takers.
On this day in 1564, the physicist, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher Galileo Galilei was born. In honor of his birthday, we're re-blogging this comic we created imagining the great forefather of modern science in the present day.
There are over 18,000 GE wind turbines capable of generating over 28,000 MW of energy deployed worldwide. Now, you can build your own at home. All you need is glue, an x-acto knife, a tooth pick and a love of clean energy.
Thomas Edison and Charles F. Brush were born just two years and 70 miles apart in small Ohio towns strung along the Lake Erie shore. They both started out as backyard inventors, launched successful electricity companies that later formed the foundation of GE, and grew old as wealthy men. But while Edison’s ingenuity has never left the public imagination, Brush's genius is only now starting to shine.
When railroad engineer Don Wetzel and his colleagues with the now defunct New York Central Railroad decided to build a high-speed train in the 1960s, they salvaged a pair of GE jet engines from an Air Force bomber and attached them to the roof of a stock commuter car. On July 23, 1966, Wetzel put on a white pilot's helmet and sped down a straight section of Ohio tracks at 183 miles per hour. The train set a world record for self-propelled trains and got recognized by Guinness World Records.
Whether you’re planning on sweeping someone off his or her feet today or toasting the single life, it helps to know the reason for the season.
Transportation services are a hot topic dominating the news today. With the introduction and proliferation of services like Zipcar, Uber, Sidecar, and car2go, the average city dweller has reaped the benefits of a more robust urban transportation infrastructure.
But not all response has been positive.
Love and the heart go together like chocolates and Valentine's Day. Starting with the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even sooner, humans believed that the heart was where the soul, emotions and wisdom dwelled.
It was the only internal organ the Egyptians did not remove during mummification "so that the Goddess Ma'at might weigh it against the feather of truth in the afterlife and punish the heavy-hearted," writes cultural historian Iain Gately.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists announced they have made a significant step towards achieving ignition, a process needed to make fusion energy viable. For the first time ever, researchers say they have gotten more energy out of fusion fuel than what they poured into it to start a reaction.