[Photo: courtesy of WinkBeds]The Hollowing Out Of American FactoriesThis uptick in Made in America startups could well signal a new era of manufacturing in the United States. But it important to remember that these are just a small fraction of the 4.5 million jobs that disappeared since NAFTA went into effect in 1994.Bailey first noticed jobs leaving the country in the mid All around him, he watched as factories began to downsize. There were many reasons for this shift consumers demanding cheaper products, American employers resisting rising labor costs and unions, free trade agreements making it easier to manufacture abroad the end result was always the same: American workers were out of work.

Experimental observations show that the induced wetting can achieve film formation, an effect not possible with electrowetting. We show that the spreading is reversible thus enabling a wide range of partial wetting droplet states to be achieved in a controllable manner. Furthermore, we find that the cosine of the contact angle has a quadratic dependence on applied voltage during spreading and deduce a scaling law for the dependence of the strength of the effect on the electrode size..

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IP rating: An IP rating is an international standard scoring electrical devices on how well they resist elements like dust and moisture. We tested each device to the fullest extent of its rating, spraying them with water, and wearing them in the rain and during intensive workouts. With dust, we tried to get a bit dirty running outside in a number of environments and tested removing the dust..

“I don’t think COVID’s going to be able to stop us from jumping up and down, and fist bumping,” he said. “You’re going to see a lot of happy people no matter what, once we get this thing on the surface safely.” ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

This research seeks to bridge the gap between traditional artisans and emerging digital craftsmen generated by the Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth century and the third Industrial Revolution (Krugh 2014; Economist 2012) now underway via material culturalism as outlined by Grier (1996). Mashrabiya, an Eastern patterned screen, represents an architectural construction that is rooted in cultural and functional parameters, but whose craftsmen have become essentially extinct due to industrialization. In looking at the preservation and redesign of this archetype, the digital tectonic (Beesley and Seebohm 2000) becomes a powerful agent in reconciling tradition with contemporary manufacturing via 3D printing.