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Renewables

This Idea Holds Water: A Rural Montana Town Is About To Make A Splash In Renewable Energy

Tomas Kellner
April 05, 2017
Born Mary Eager in 1926, the daughter of a physics professor blazed through her coursework, graduating in just three years at age 20 thanks to having taken college classes in high school and committing to a grueling year-round schedule. A strict family rule may also have helped. “Studying came first,” said Reynolds. “So no radio could be on if anyone was studying at home.” She was the second woman to graduate with a mechanical engineering degree at what was then Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University).
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The Future of Work

School’s In: GE’s New "Brilliant Learning" Program Will Train Workers For Jobs Of The Future

Tomas Kellner
March 30, 2017
Jesse Schrimpf didn’t study additive manufacturing in school. But when a 3D printer showed up at his plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the GE Healthcare engineer decided to give the machine a whirl.
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workplace

Living On The Edge But Playing It Safe: What Barefoot Water-Skiing And Factory Safety Have In Common

P D Olson
March 22, 2017
You’d think an environmental health and safety (EHS) expert would be overly cautious about the world around him, calculating every possible danger and wrapping family members in cotton wool. Not Kevin Kaiser. While he’s spent his career teaching GE employees to stay safe, when the workday is over and Kaiser pursues one of the most teeth-gnashing hobbies known to humanity: barefoot water-skiing. “It’s exhilarating,” he says from his home office in Charleston, South Carolina. “There’s more risk to it. You go faster.”
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data

Tiny Giant: This Bitty Switch Aims To Supercharge 5G Mobile Networks

March 21, 2017
The flight attendants are about to shut the cabin doors when you realize you forgot to download that sci-fi blockbuster you were looking forward to watching during the flight. As they tell you to shut down your personal devices, you press the download button. Before they’ve arrived at your row to demand you shut it off, the entire high-definition movie has flooded into your phone and it’s already tucked away in your pocket.
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Renewables

She’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This Woman’s Job

March 20, 2017
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch. The electrons need to travel 50 miles (80 km) under the sea and then another 50 miles undergroud to make themselves useful. Sibylle Stefan’s job is to get them there.
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Cell Therapy

Pump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine

March 15, 2017

The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine. Treatments designed from lab-made versions of large proteins are now being used to treat cancers and autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis. Research shows they might also do well against infectious diseases.

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Energy

Charged Up: GE Shows Investors Its Energy Playbook

Tomas Kellner
March 15, 2017

The acquisition of Alstom’s energy assets delivered $1.5 billion in synergies in 2016, $300 million above GE’s original five-year target for Alstom synergies, GE’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Bornstein told investors at a conference in New York held by GE’s Power and Renewable Energy businesses last week. “Alstom makes us more competitive,” Bornstein said. “It broadens the service base and creates long-term incremental value.”

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The Many Faces Of π: This Artist Has Painted Pi To See The Language Of The Universe

Tomas Kellner
March 14, 2017
Artist Stewart Kenneth Moore is best known for his surreal canvases, etchings and comic strips depicting everyone from James Joyce and Vaclav Havel to Macbeth caught in a nightmare of the everyday. But ever since he was a boy, Moore has been fascinated with pi, the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle.
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medicine

Sound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love

Maggie Sieger
March 08, 2017

Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that everything is going according to plan — she and her husband, Nate, were excited. This is the test when parents get to see their baby’s face for the first time, walking away with incredible images they will treasure for the rest of their life.

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law

Honey, I Shrunk The Contract: How Plain English Is Helping GE Keep Its Business Humming

Kristin Kloberdanz
March 02, 2017
When GE Aviation combined its three digital businesses into a single Digital Solutions unit nearly four years ago, their salespeople were eager to speed up the growth they had seen in the years before the move. They found plenty of enthusiastic customers, but they struggled to close their deals.
The reason: Customers often needed to review and sign contracts more than 100 pages long before they could start doing business.
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