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Beam Me Up, Herve: This Engineer Helped Design A CT Machine That Accelerates To 70 Gs [Video]

Tomas Kellner
December 01, 2016
When the first group of American astronauts started training for space flight in the 1950s, Air Force doctors put them through a number of wrenching trials. In one, they had to endure many multiples of the force of gravity we experience at sea level — or G-force. John Glenn experienced 7.9 Gs during his first orbital flight, and others briefly went as high as 32 Gs on Houston’s infamous G Machine. “You couldn't lift your arm out of the couch above about 6 or 7 Gs,” Glenn told a historian. “Beyond that you were just supported there.”
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Opportunity knocks: opening the door to genius

November 17, 2016
Futurist and biomedical engineer Dr Jordan Nguyen says that people’s relationship with technology is becoming increasingly intimate, “So we need to figure out how that’s going to augment us, not just be something that we use and rely on, and become lazier.”
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Absolute beginners: Five tips for parents of premmies

November 17, 2016
Emma and Ben Caisley’s twin boys Ethan and Noah were born at 31 weeks, each weighing about 1.4kg. The family’s journey in the neonatal intensive care unit was featured in the video story, Twin Miracles. GE Reports asked Emma—one of the many eternally grateful mothers of premature babies who unintentionally become experts on NICU life—for pointers for parents whose babies are spending their first weeks, or months, in special care.

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From premmie to preschool: return of the Miracle Twins

November 17, 2016

Twin brothers Ethan and Noah Caisley are typical mischievous four-year-olds. Just the other day, they came up with a plan for one of them to bust out of their preschool, while the other created a distraction, but the teachers foiled their plot.
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Disrupt or be Disrupted: New Energy Trends and Technologies Showcased at CEPSI 2016

November 10, 2016
Speaking ahead of his keynote presentation at the 2016 Conference of the Electric Supply Industry (CEPSI) in Bangkok in October, Jack Wen, president, Asia Pacific GE Energy Connections said:

“For many people, the power industry appears stable on the surface. However, a lot of changes have happened in the past five years - new technologies, especially digital technology, have come on stream; more renewable energy is coming online; and customers are also demanding empowerment. This will impact all players in the industry.”
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How a breast cancer screening saved my life

October 17, 2016
A few months shy of her 25th birthday, Sydneysider Yvette Luciano was offered her dream job at Sony Music and was on track to fulfil her vision of starting her own music touring and management company. To top things off, that same year she met the love of her life.
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What’s up, Doc? The robot that keeps doctors in the know

October 10, 2016
In an operating theatre of a major metropolitan teaching hospital at the bottom of the world, specialist anaesthetist Dr Savas Totonidis leans under lights on the empty operating table and quips about his job, “In a hospital like this you can’t just knock people out and wake them up again. We all have extra responsibilities.”
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Innovating Solutions to Smart Cities through Shared Knowledge

September 14, 2016
The ASEAN Leaders Programme, run by Common Purpose and sponsored by GE, took place in Singapore at the end of June, bringing together leaders and decision makers from throughout the ASEAN region. This inspirational event combines senior leaders from industry, government and NGO’s from a range of backgrounds to speak about innovation and inspire change makers in addressing challenges throughout the region.
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Cultural Intelligence Offers Diverse Rewards

September 09, 2016
We live in a world beyond borders. Our ability to work is no longer limited by geography, but only by our ambition. The ease of international travel alongside the vast opportunity of our digital landscape provides a connected world of global collaboration. A breakfast meeting in Malaysia turns into a conference call with London, then a day ended with a face-to-face meeting with clients in Indonesia.
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Olympic Games data wrap: the scan score

September 09, 2016
For two weeks every four years it becomes even more urgent for athletes to shirk the aches, pains and injuries that they inevitably pick up as unwanted running mates.
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