Measurement devices, measurement education & measuring
Why Not? (hint: there are no real standards or agreed practices) {Image Credit: Salvatore Vuono} Our website network focuses on measurements primarily in Industry & Science. But there's a whole other world of measurements, or "Metrics" that has become more noticeable over the past ten years, or so, Web Metrics. It's driven by money, of course, advertising costs and rates are affected … [Read more...]
A University of Delaware Professor's Comparison: How Does it Affect the Rest of the USA? Professor James J. Corbett works on energy and environmental solutions for transportation in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of Delaware. You can view the video on YouTube.com, if you wish, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jS2kZvsEw Visit the UD web page of the College … [Read more...]
Announcement on 'Colbert Report,' Treadmill Named C.O.L.B.E.R.T. Official patch for "C.O.L.B.E.R.T.," the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. Click image to enlarge. Credit: NASA (See our earlier article: Naming Colbert or Not) The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After receiving more than a million responses in an online … [Read more...]
Just learned that Stephen Colbert, the TV satarist/comic, has a bunch of votes on the NASA website to name a new component, Node 3, of the Space Station after him, i.e. colbert. As he said on the Today Show, today:"Why not?". It's not exactly a measurement or measurement education topic, but it fits the Deming vs Dilbert Model quite well, in my opinion. According to NASA's web page: NASA … [Read more...]
Physicists are not gods, nor are they always right. I've learned that hard lesson many times over while both working for and learning from some noted and not-so noted physicists and trying to act god-like in my own encounters with geeks of any persuasion (I admit to being one, too). Doctors of Medicine fall into the same category, yet that's another story or three...later. There's a few … [Read more...]
For those of you who do not know Dilbert, you have been missing some of the wittiest and most humorous satire about American organization work life and technology ever published. It is the creation of Scott Adams, a talented observer and cartoonist. His website is an easy one to remember: Dilbert.com. Plus he has a regular blog that echoes many of his observations at dilbert.com/blog/ … [Read more...]
When I was in college, the Korean War was just ended and the Draft was still active. I joined ROTC to insure uninterrupted education. I was lucky enough to get into graduate school and worked, got married had kids and then the ARMY said "Time to Serve". Again, I got lucky. Some of the research I was helping with at Northeastern University (NU) in Boston was for a Professor who had Army … [Read more...]
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