Browsing through the online pages of my favourite Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet I came across an article (citing this article that appeared in Forbes a few days ago) calling Spotify founder/entrepreneur Daniel Ek the most important man in music at the moment. I went on to read the much more extensive Forbes article with great […]
Ibland verkar det som om jakten på produktivitet och konkurrenskraft bara leder utvecklingen i en enda riktning: mot centralisering. Det gäller både konsumtion och produktion. Tillverkning av vardagsprodukter flyttas i allt högre grad till tillväxtländer där det finns gott om arbetskraft och lönerna är låga. Vi väljer ofta att göra våra inköp i stormarknader, eller […]
För något år sedan skrev jag om spännande nya forskningsprojekt inom fission, liksom om betydelsefulla framsteg inom konventionell fusionsforskning (här och här). Nu har något nytt och oväntat inträffat: så kallad “kall fusion”, eller en likvärdig process, kan eventuellt ha förverkligats. Det innebär i så fall inget mindre än en sensation och början på en […]
[This is an update of my previous post, “Blogging on the iPad”, which I wrote on the iPad. I’ve now edited it on my regular PC but I kept the old post unchanged in order to illustrate my points. In addition to the problems mentioned below, there were also a problem with inserting pictures, which […]
Today was a big day at the new metal forming laboratory at Dalarna University (previously mentioned in this post): After several years of talking and planning, our new cold rolling mill finally works. And I’ve spent the day playing with it to learn how it works. I and a few om my colleagues at the university […]
This evening I watched as Swedish culture programme Kobra visited Google’s headquarters the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Google is known for taking the idea of employee care to the next level with free food, free gyms, laundry at work, free transport to and from work, and a playful atmosphere. No wonder Google is the […]
Tomorrow is midsummer’s eve, or solstice, the biggest holiday in Sweden next to Christmas. Feels like everyone is logging out early today, at least mentally, thinking more about garden parties and dancing around the midsummer pole to the sound of fiddles than about work. A link to this video arrived in my mail. It reminds me […]
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