Vertical Integration is a business concept: combining processes, factories, or even entire companies that together constitute different stages of the manufacturing/marketing/sales process for a particular industry. Season Shot, Inc., a perhaps apocryphal company in Bloomington, Minnesota, combines some industrial elements that, traditionally, were separate. Their industry: hunting and cooking. As they explain: Season Shot is […]
About: Alice Shirrell Kaswell
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Stan Wagon’s squared bicycle
Stan Wagon built a bicycle that has square wheels. It gives a wonderfully smooth ride over appropriate terrain. (Thanks to investigator Danny Lichtblau for bringing this to our attention.)
Kanzi and the marshmallow treats
Investigator Stephen Black writes: From the November 2006 issue of Smithsonian Magazine in which the psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh describes the abilities of one of her language-learning bonobos, Kanzi: “Once, Savage-Rumbaugh says, on an outing in a forest by the Georgia State University laboratory where he was raised, Kanzi touched the symbols for ‘marshmallow’ and ‘fire.’ […]
Heads-up on Dr. Headon and what’s on a head
Scientists looking at mice may have discovered why certain people are hairier than others in what could provide clues as to the reason some men go bald prematurely. So says an August 30, 2006 Medical News Today article about Dr. Denis Headon (of Manchester University) and his work. (Thanks to investigator Jane Kohner for bringing […]