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Randall Stross wrote an article in the New York Times recently asking whether Tesla should receive the $400 million in low-interest federal loans it has requested. The money would come from a $25 billion loan package the government initially earmarked for improving fuel efficiency, but which now may be necessary just to keep the Detroit [...]

The automobile industry has continuously improved sound suppression in its vehicles to the point where engineers now build mechanisms into cars that purposefully introduce engine noise into the cabin, returning some of the driver’s aural feedback that had been insulated away.
But this post isn’t about that kind of automobile noise. This is about the noise [...]

And you thought you were safe from the meandering, thoughtless actions of our 43rd President, now that we’ve proven that the USA is smart enough to see we need some change at the top and elected Obama to turn the country around?
Well, Bush didn’t get that message and it turns out he’s going to screw [...]

BusinessWeek published a story yesterday with three growth scenarios for the outcome of the current financial downturn. I’m with the author in hoping for the third scenario — innovative growth.
In this scenario, the country’s investments in research (bioengineering bacteria to produce cellulosic biofuels, for example) pay off and we are able to increase our exports [...]

The recent economic turmoil has the nation looking for short-term tactics to right the sinking financial ship. While my own (shrinking) 401(k) and IRA accounts are quantitative testament to how important fixing the markets is to me personally, in this post I’d like to focus attention on a longer-term strategy for achieving US economic strength.
As [...]

In case you didn’t recognize my stretched attempt at a reference to the game Battleship in the title of this post… well that’s what it was. (Find an online version of the game embedded at the bottom of the post.)
While working on a totally unrelated task, I came across a spectacular visualization tool representing the [...]