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As many of you know, I’m an angel. An angel is a person who invests his wife’s money into new ventures with high risk. An angel is not a venture…
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The scoop on poop and how to save the environment
Written by Dick Morley Friday, 15 March 2013 08:51
This is a sensitive subject. Although we all need food and most of us eat animal protein, we seldom talk about the process that recycles the protein in food into…
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This column is about education. We need a definition, but I find it difficult to find one that makes some sense. The best I can do is to define education…
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We recently had a milkshake conflict at the barn. My long-suffering coauthor, Debbie, had the effrontery to disagree with me. I told her that I liked vanilla milkshakes (frappes, in…
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Dick’s fireside chats: How history is really written
Written by Dick Morley Monday, 22 October 2012 12:00
In July and August, I made two business trips to Australia and Austin, Texas. While there, I did the usual bookend keynotes, but by far most attendees were interested in…
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Most of my readers do not subscribe to the mafia rules: pay attention to your own health first, the family second and business third. Almost all of my columns have…
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COFES (Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) is located each spring in Scottsdale, Ariz. The agenda brings many smart people together to discuss aspects of software, with some emphasis…
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Sabermetrics: A look at the statistics of innovation
Written by Dick Morley Friday, 18 May 2012 13:25
The word sabermetrics describes the objective analysis of baseball. Evaluating a player and the team’s chances of winning a game are dependent upon many combined objectives. These include, but are…
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Morley's book club: A selection of recommended readings
Written by Dick Morley Tuesday, 13 March 2012 09:13
I have a short list of books that I recommend people read; ones that I consider to be important. They may not all be good books, but much can still…
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Does manufacturing matter?: The highs and lows of my trip back to MIT
Written by Dick Morley Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:30
Recently, I went back to my roots. As a young man, I spent four years learning about physics at MIT, and revisited my old stomping grounds earlier this year.
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