the second group of papers mentioned in the article was commented on as follows:
"Laudisi et al. (2012) used a different exposure system, that of Ardoino et al. (2005) where the vast majority of the exposure is produced from reflections off a long cylindrical surface in a TEM cell, where the curvature of the cylinder will also produce a largely non-polarized EMF and different reverberation paths and consequent destructive interference, may both be expected to occur. Consequently the predicted low biological activity of EMFs produced by the Wu et al. (2009) system may be expected to also occur from this TEM exposure system Ardoino et al. (2005). It is not possible to study biological effects of EMFs from Wi-Fi, cell phones or any other important exposures using such exposure systems because of the polarization changes they produce from the original polarized EMFs and because of destructive interference."
my apologies I did not see the previous post - I wanted to review what this article suggests is correct and incorrect Wi-Fi testing.
This article states that many previous studies tested: (from the article)
It uses a large chamber surrounded by 1 mm aluminum mesh wire mesh to provide reflections of the EMFs. The chamber in which animals are exposed on a platform at its center, is also surrounded by antennae in all 6 directions (up, down, all four horizontal directions) such that each antenna is broadcasting with one polarization is opposed (at 180°) by another broadcasting with the 180° opposite polarization, as well as by four other antennae, broadcasting with 90° different polarization in each of the four possible directions. This produces a field that is more like a non-polarized EMF rather than the usual polarized artificial EMF"
my understanding (without research) was that one of the founders of IDEO created the concept so they could broaden their client pool from traditional design to finance / business consulting.
Ultimately, and in addition to many existing "innovation" or "time and motion" tools, Design thinking is in-depth analysis of the customer and desperately hoping that somehow a "new idea" comes out of it. Roll in billions of consultancy dollars.
Nothing at all to do with a professional design process however.
It was not intended to be pedantry, though you are within your rights to see it as such. If you don't perceive a central bank with an interest in legitimizing a field of human endeavor for it's own interests as wrong.
As other articles have noted, there are many other fields that may be more deserving of a prize.
Given the economic damage that the recipients of the prize have caused, can we really say that it advances human knowledge in any other way than identifying what is wrong?
That is a very different impact than the majority of the other awards.
It was not established by Mr. Nobel, the name was taken. The family does not acknowledge it.
To me this is disrespectful to the man who set up the prize in his name.
One issue not being discussed is the revolving cost of having products out in the market and the cost of the next production run.
if your orders double from 20K units to 40K, your costs will roughly double, usually meaning that any profit made on the 20K is re-invested to make the 40K - usually plus additional capital.
So long as your production quantities double, you will not actually "have" any money (unless your FOB cost is north of four times sell price). Many companies cannot "realise" profit until orders stabilise.
My thoughts would be:
1) sponsor the private schooling of an orphan or disadvantaged child - if they get the grades you pay direct for the school and materials. (this system exists for most orphanages in most 2nd and 3rd world countries but you can start at home.)
2) International work camps for peace - fully volunteer organization and you get to see another country in a real way and do good work while doing so.
I have heard of this journalist before. Apart from the absolute lack of an explanation as to WHY Walmart cannot pay higher wages (spoiler - it's complicated!)
also, I find the link in the S.H.A.M.E. project of interest.
Am I misunderstanding something here - surely the information Snowden revealed is that the NSA is dumping EVERY electronic communication in a huge data dump all the time. Then they are saying "sometimes" they search for the wrong things in that archive?
Isn't the issue that they are archiving everything we do in the first place?
As a designer comfortable with my choice, I always saw design as the tool used to capture and manifest the dreams of others. This creativity is then placed in the view of the world to meet with brutal success, failure or mediocrity.
By definition, a designer must be public. They also must imagine themselves in everyone else shoes and use their creativity for others.
Artists, for me, are narcissistic. Trying to create only for themselves. And ideally, they should not care about the opinion of others.
I strongly believe that good design is harder, more professional and more demanding than art.
Having said that , and having started four businesses. I agree that start-ups are much more difficult.
A simple concern on this topic:
When my day to day life is public online:
a)strangers know when I am on vacation and my house is empty
b) given the standard misunderstandings amongst people - what they can check about what I am doing via online tools and it differs from what they expect - and they never have to let me know they know (a seed for massive misunderstandings)
Both a and b open my life to problems out of my control. Irrelevant of the life I am living. Thus the need for privacy.