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Does kissing up to your boss work?
By Noah Graff Chicago Public Radio discussed a study today showing that employees giving gifts to bosses generally improves their treatment at work, even if bosses know they are trying [...]
Apple Embraces Precision Machining
Apple recently released their new MacBook notebook computers. The company put out an excellent video which spends a great deal of time discussing the machining of the computer’s unique one [...]
The Pickens Plan
Eighty-year-old, billionaire, oil baron T. Boone Pickens believes that America’s oil era is over. He is now going full speed into the alternative energy business, building filling stations for CNG [...]
To Film or not to Film employees
By Noah Graff A recent article in Modern Machine Shop discussed the dilemma of using video cameras to monitor the daily activities of employees. In their research they found that [...]
Build Roads — Not Electric Cars
By Noah Graff A recent article by wired.com suggested that one of the best remedies for the struggling U.S. economy would be an extensive overhaul of the country’s crumbling infrastructure. [...]
New Credit Game for Industrial Equipment
By Lloyd Graff I think we got an important signal Tuesday when Bank of America decided not to raise credit lines for McDonalds franchisees to buy new equipment such as [...]
IMTS Video Tour of Chicago!
Today’s Machining World has produced a video that will give you insider tips on using public transportation to get from O’Hare airport to downtown Chicago and then from downtown to [...]
CNC Laser Engraving Thumbnails
In this Make Magazine podcast, a semi-demented man with an accent uses a CNC laser cutter to engrave a calendar on his thumbnail. I guess he has trouble keeping track [...]
People Just Don't Get Manufacturing
August 21, Chicago’s NPR station ran a short blurb about how manufacturing’s seemingly continuous slowdown has caused many shops to let go of workers in recent months. Hearing stories like [...]
An Olympics of Competing Machines
Dartmouth economics professor Andrew Bernard has come up with a mathematical system to predict the medal standings of the Olympics. He has tested his formula on the Olympic games dating [...]