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When Incentives Blow Up
By Lloyd Graff As the details gradually emerge from the BP oil spill it becomes more and more clear that management in London had incentivized the troops in the field [...]
Should You Trust Your Gut or Your Doc?
By Lloyd Graff What do you do when your doctor tells you to do something that you doubt is necessary? I just endured a kidney scan and a cystoscope because [...]
What is the Tea Party?
For the September 2010 issue of Today’s Machining World I did a short interview with Jim Chiodo, a Tea Party leader in Holland Michigan (I also quoted him in Tuesday’s [...]
Life’s Work–Life’s Pleasure
By Lloyd Graff I just spent a week doing the most inefficient, labor-intensive, stupidly expensive, appallingly large carbon footprint use of my time I can think of. I schlepped to [...]
Should the Government Not Help Michigan?
By Noah Graff Yesterday, Barack Obama visited the Compact Power plant in Holland, Michigan, to attend the groundbreaking of a new plant to produce battery cells for Ford and GM [...]
The Human Instinct to Create
By Noah Graff For an extra $5,800, buyers of a Corvette Z06 or ZR1 can go to the General Motors Performance Build Center in Wixom, Mich., and assemble their own [...]
The Intersection Of Art and Connecting Mechanics
By Robert Strauss Fernando Orellana’s father was a civil engineer and Fernando, when he was growing up, liked art. There seemed little to connect them. “But I saw my father [...]
You Need to Be Paranoid
By Noah Graff I recently came across a hysterical YouTube video satirizing the screw-ups by BP management as they try to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. [...]
Should Obama go to IMTS
By Lloyd Graff I received the email announcement entitled “AMT and NAM Announce Historic Partnership.” I didn’t know whether to laugh or yawn because of my gut cynicism about Washington [...]
An Interview with Christine Todd Whitman
By Noah Graff Christine Todd Whitman served as the EPA administrator under President Bush from 2001-2003 and was the Governor of New Jersey from 1994-2001. Currently she heads the Republican [...]