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FOSHAN, China—In a steamy room full of small appliances, Zhao Guoyao frowned over a pot of rice. Mr. Zhao, a product manager at appliance giant Midea Group, 000333 1.01 %wants to make a better rice cooker. It is one small part of a nationwide push to make quality goods for a burgeoning middle class, a process that will help…
Scott Silverthorne built a reputation as a civic pillar of Fairfax City, Va., over three decades, helping bring a park to the affluent suburb’s downtown and championing other improvements during his stints as a City Council member and mayor. But even as he was the public face of the city, police said, Silverthorne was privately…
1. When you spend so much time working you see science everywhere. Follow mudda @mjosizzle Beyonce look like the rough endoplasmic reticulum with ribosomes attached to it 9:13 PM – 2 May 2016 41,16441,164 Retweets 37,51737,517 likes 2. When someone implies women are too emotional to do science. View image on Twitter Follow Amy Remeikis ✔@AmyRemeikis I’m really…
On his physics-insider blog, Résonaances, theorist Adam Falkowski titled his latest post “After the Hangover.” He’s not talking about a party. He’s talking about particle physics—and the decline and fall of this year’s most-exciting-discovery-that-was-not. On July 29, Falkowski declared what CERN, the European organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, hasn’t yet: The Standard-Model-busting maybe-particle…
1. When you spend so much time working you see science everywhere. Follow mudda @mjosizzle Beyonce look like the rough endoplasmic reticulum with ribosomes attached to it 9:13 PM – 2 May 2016 41,17941,179 Retweets 37,51537,515 likes 2. When someone implies women are too emotional to do science. View image on Twitter Follow Amy Remeikis ✔@AmyRemeikis I’m really…
Aug. 5, 2016 9:12 a.m. ET I apologize to the world for igniting the Cargo Shorts Wars of 2016. I pitched the story to explore a debate I was having with friends and colleagues. I had no idea tensions over cargo shorts were simmering beneath the surface across this nation. Since the story published on…
Aug. 3, 2016 1:23 p.m. ET Online advertising firm Yieldbot has raised $35 million to grow its ad targeting and tracking software, the company said Wednesday. The funding round was led by new investor Staley Capital, with participation from existing investors, and brings the company’s total funding to over $60 million to date. The investment…
Next week will see the release of No Man’s Sky, a sci-fi game about exploring a huge, procedurally generated universe. It’s a moment that many have been clamoring for ever since the game was first announced in 2013, with a raucous trailer, set to the sound of “Debutante” from 65daysofstatic. Since those early days the British…
During a 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, I served presidents of both parties — three Republicans and three Democrats. I was at President George W. Bush’s side when we were attacked on Sept. 11; as deputy director of the agency, I was with President Obama when we killed Osama bin Laden in 2011….
Revealed at Madame Tussauds: Donald Trump’s Actual Hand Size 6:10 AM PDT 8/3/2016 by Benjamin Svetkey Care to compare with The Donald? Print here and measure up against Trump’s 7 1/4-inch-long right hand — just slightly less than that of the average man — which was cast in bronze at the museum’s Times Square…