Favorite Videos
Shop Doc – Stringy Aluminum Chips
Dear Shop Doc, We are running a long aluminum part on our CNC Swiss and are having problems with long stringy chips building up in the machine that are getting [...]
Only God Knows What This Machine Is Worth
Two and a half months ago I jumped from working full time at Today’s Machining World into the wild laissez-faire world that is the used machinery business. One thing that [...]
I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now
-Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter without the sweater. -World Book and the Encyclopedia Britannica would become almost completely obsolete. -Split finger fastballs are arm killers. -Pickled beets in horseradish are [...]
New Thinking Inside The Box
Sal Khan was a math wiz and wanna be entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley after graduating from MIT in 1998. After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 he knocked around [...]
We’ve Gotta Protect Our Phony Baloney Jobs!
I’m sure most of you are tired of the chicken playing in congress by both parties as debt ceiling doomsday gets ridiculously close. It makes me chuckle as I think [...]
A Cure for Your Golf Slice?
Would golf still be fun if you knew you couldn’t slice the ball? A new golf ball is available that reduces slices by 70 percent because of a clever use [...]
The Mike Rowe Effect?
A brilliant quarter for Ford. The company is coining money. Mike Jackson CEO of AutoNation, predicts the firm will sell 100,000 cars this year. Domestic car production is running at [...]
Religion of Baseball
One of my most important spiritual holidays is approaching. Not Passover, not Easter, but one just as big on my calendar—Opening Day—of the baseball season. If you define religious experience [...]
Editor’s Note: The Unfair Advantage
I love basketball and have spent countless hours perfecting my shot through the years. I developed a beautiful touch, but I never could overcome a severe case of the white [...]
Does Winning Breed Good Team Chemistry?
For the March issue of Today’s Machining World I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Steven Julius, the official psychologist for the Chicago Bulls. I asked him the classic question, [...]