I have been reporting about brain implants for a long time. (Click the brain link above to see a slew of them.)
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The Amygdala did it
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Xenograft
We still don’t allow stem cell research to proceed and improve our lives. Which means we can’t truly develop a replacement kidney (or liver or whatever organ we want) that would be compatible with our patients. Which is a real problem, since there are some 100,000 folks waiting for a kidney transplant right now. And, about a dozen of those waiting die every single day before they ever get a chance at the transplant.
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A ChemE explains Bourbon
I have shared how various products rely on the talents of chemical engineering. Coffee (a course being taught at Berkeley made this clear), winemaking, soda pop, etc. all demonstrate the need for great chemical engineering talents to maximize the value of these products.
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Last Mile
So, we learned last week how Kohl’s took a shot by letting folks return Amazon products to their store. All in the hopes that those Amazon customers would buy some Kohl’s products as long as they were in the store. (Which, indeed, is what is happening.)
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17 Cheshvan 5782 (23 October 2021)
What a beautiful Shabat.
No, we did not have those glorious blue skies that prevailed earlier in the week. (Yes, I finally got a chance- or is that permission?- to be outside and revel in the autumnal season.)
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Robert Wolke, PhD
From Brooklyn Poly (BS, 1949) to Cornell (PhD, 1953), with a few more stops until he reached the University of Pittsburgh (1960), to the Washington Post (writing a food column), with more than a few books thrown into the mix.
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Keep it coming
We’ve done a wonderful thing. We’ve lowered the poverty rate dramatically during the pandemic. From 17.5% down to 11.9%! And, no, silly, it wasn’t the COVID-19 disease that created that change.
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Going, going…
When I was little kid growing up on Long Island, my backyard abutted a small forest. It was beautiful in the summer, except for the bee hives and their swarming bees- and for the invariable forest fire (darn those underage kids smoking cigarettes and dropping them to start those fires).
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All talk and no action?
Sometimes, you just have to be amazed at the inanity of things our government – and private associations- do. No, I’m not talking about the 6th of January or TheDonald. (Although, those two certainly do eclipse this stupidity.)
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A retail ChemE
You know that despite all my additional training and education, I consider myself first and foremost a chemical engineer. Whether I am working in the medical profession, pharmaceuticals, water, finance, management, or tax- my approach is always to follow the rules of chemical engineering. Input-Output-Accumulation+Generation. (As you can surmise, that rule can equally apply to economics, biological systems, water treatment- even human interactions.)
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