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  • Bernanke Assesses The Economic Implications Of The IT Revolution


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    Indeed, some knowledgeable observers have recently made the case that the IT revolution, as important as it surely is, likely will not generate the transformative economic effects that flowed from the earlier technological revolutionsFED Chairman Ben S. BernankeWashingtonChairman Ben S. Bernanke Bard College at ...
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  • A historic textile mill begins a new chapter


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    After a complicated 20-year effort to save a redbrick mill in North Carolina that was once considered the largest in the world for textiles and that played a significant role in the South’s textile history, the plant is finally moving toward a new life as a multiuse complex. The Loray Mill, which for decades ...
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  • Historian Reveals 6 Bourbon Myths


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    Manufacturing American bourbon whiskey involves the use of specific grain types and unique barrel wood for aging. While bourbon is made primarily in Kentucky, Bourbon can be distilled anywhere in the US. Historian Michael R. Veach reveals the true story of bourbon in Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage ...
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  • Are You Ready For The Social Business Revolution?


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    Revolutions in how we do business are a chain of events that separately are not significant but when brought together are world changing. If you take the Industrial revolution which brought mass production - it was a series of inventions from steam power, iron, chemicals which all made possible the development of ...
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  • Nasty, brutish and short?


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    In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of ...
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  • Anthropocene: Humanity’s Most Redefining Era on this Planet


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    The anthropocene is the chronological term for humanity’s global presence. This new time period we’ve assumed as humans means we now impact the entire biosphere of Earth. In this profound music video created by MelodySheep, the significance of being a member of this age becomes almost tangible.  We have a ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Choosing the best contract cleaning company


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    An articleexamining how to find a good cleaning company for your office premises and what toconsider before appointing one. Offices are generally busyplaces of work. With phones ringing, keyboards clicking and meetings andpresentations taking place, during working hours they are bustling, noisy andproductive. ...
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  • Link with the past


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    After reading my article on line shafts, Evan suggested I look at the following video on YouTube. It is an excerpt from a 1981 documentary about a craftsman who is still using a water-powered (and line-shaft enabled) workshop from the 1840s.  It is 26 minutes long and does a pretty good job of documenting the ...
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  • Milestone Nears on Curve Charting the Human Imprint on the Atmosphere


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    A famous curve of carbon dioxide levels is close to passing a milestone.
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  • What a difference 12 days make


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    When we first moved into our house, about 12 years ago, it was newly decorated, with an extension and front porch added. Very nice for us, as we had been used to living in very old houses. Victorian and early 1900 builds.  This house was built in the sixties, so it was a nice change to move into a more modern house, ...
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  • Selenium, silk, spices and silver: drivers of human history


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    Adam Smith called the crossing of the Atlantic by Columbus  and rounding of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama the greatest events in human history. They led to, for the first time, a truly global trading economy, where the Eurasian trade economy was extended to, and profoundly changed by contact with, the ...
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  • On Bangladesh, and some of the worst factory disasters in history


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    Fire at Albion Mill, Blackfriars, London,1791. Painting by T. Rowlandson The history of mass manufacturing is stitched through with accidents and peril. The first factories, which powered the industrial revolution in 18th century Britain, brought death and injury to many workers, including children . M ...
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  • More Reason To Like “Cottage Industrials”


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    Yesterday, I put forward the idea that the age of giant corporations was over. Instead, I wrote, bet on the small guy. The cottage industrial is what I called the smaller, more flexible, flatter, owner-managed enterprise, as compared with the giants of industry. Companies can get too big. There is such a thing as ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Line Shafts and Powering Machinery


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    We have not always had the luxury of small, compact, powerful electric motors for powering workshop machinery.  Instead, once workshops moved to having powered machinery at the start of the Industrial Revolution, they were using water, coal and fuel oil to to power the workshop. Deutsch: Erste Dampfmaschine in ...
    4 weeks ago

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