Almost all readers of this column who contact me are owners or part owners of a family business. Each one has a unique family business story that would make for an exciting, interesting and ...

Medicare's funding problems often get overlooked when the Social Security trustees issue their annual report on the funded status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. Yet together they form ...

Many of the electric transmission grids in service around the world were designed and built more than a half century ago. While changes and upgrades have obviously been made over the years, the ...

Fairly dividing goods is one of the hardest problems economists face. NPR's Planet Money talks to economists about how best to solve it. The recent government shutdown was in part a battle over how to ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

Robotics is a diverse industry with many variables. Its future is filled with uncertainty: nobody can predict which way it will develop and what directions will be leading a few years from now.

I am one of those people who can’t go to sleep at night until a problem is solved. I discovered this in math classes long before majoring in the subject in college. Heck, I discovered this as a small ...

Uncertainties over the many diverse problems of our times have been lasting for a prolonged period. It should be no surprise that, whatever our circumstances, our inner mental world is changing along ...

The vast majority of bearing failures in electric motors and electric motor-driven equipment are due to mechanical and thermal causes. However, currents that flow through induction motor bearings can ...