SmithJR (James Smith)
Seattle Post Intelligencer
It goes without saying that there never was a more lyrical invention -- a machine so attuned to the nature of dreaming. This site is about the challenges of riding in New York City and some of the emotions felt while doing so. In Europe nea...
'The Invention of Lying': The importance of being dishonest at work
Examiner
Ricky Gervais may have been the first dishonest man in “The Invention of Lying,” but at the office, you don’t have to look too hard to find liars, damn liars, and coworkers. People in the workplace will lie about anything and everything—fro...
Rare Birds, and Rarefied Salaries
International Herald Tribune
As Robinho returns to Manchester City and Bayern’s Frank Ribéry trains, rumors are flying that other clubs plan to offer them more money to change their colors.
Altech Refrigeration enjoys new building
Eastern Arizona Courier
An old adage states that necessity is the mother of all invention. In the case of Altech Refrigeration, necessity is the reason it built its new building.
Clean living: Missoula company’s environmentally friendly invention has ‘potential to change world’
Missoulian
Don Kiely planned to retire from his teaching post at the University of Montana when he turned 70, but when the chemistry professor hit that self-designated milestone, he had a change of heart. After more than a decade of experiments and te...
Editorial: Seeing ghosts
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Inquirer editorial: The next time a state lawmaker claims to be safeguarding your tax dollars, remember Sue Cornell and Sam Stokes.Cornell and Stokes are allegedly the latest in a long line of "ghost" employees paid with public money for do...
Defeat by Aberdeen was worse than Rangers' Champions League ...
Daily Record
A lack of invention in the attacking third as well as resolute defending from the Dons added up to an afternoon of frustration for the champions and Weir insists it just wasn't their day. He said: "Aberdeen scored their goal early and we we...
Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Researcher Daines Barrington declared "his genius and invention ... most astonishing." Also online is explorer Capt. James Cook's description of how he kept his crew free of scurvy on an 18th-century voyage to Australia by feeding them malt...
Polymer outfit branches out with $3.4M Akron expansion
Crain's Cleveland Business
That invention on the founders' résumés has helped Akron Polymer Systems establish relationships in the industry, said Dr. Harris, who also is a distinguished professor emeritus of polymer science at the university. “The reason we can do it...
The man who fueled an invention revolution
Chicago Sun-Times
Global Positioning System satellites that monitor truckers' whereabouts are cutting-edge technology. But 49 years ago, inventor, businessman and West Side native Morris Simon, 83, came up with a two-way system to track the fueling of long-h...
Faith and power is the fundamentalist’s brew
Times Online
The systemic cover-up of child abuse scandals is not an invention of jeering, anti-clerical hysterics. I wish it were. Rather, it is a classic demonstration of what happens when belief is bolstered by power, and stripped of humanity.
North Andover firm develops 'microbots' to keep banks safe
The Eagle-Tribune
People are always talking about how to invent a better mousetrap. Local business executive Michael Leary thinks he and his technology team may have succeeded. But their invention is probably better described as a "bank-robber trap."
Alice Munro’s object lessons
The Malaysian Insider
TORONTO, Nov 30 — The Germans must have a term for it. Doppel gedanken, perhaps: the sensation, when reading, that your own mind is giving birth to the words as they appear on the page. Such is the ego that in these rare instances you wonde...
