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Rare Earths Aren’t Rare, with Julie Klinger-Ep. 254

“Rare earths aren’t actually rare, nor are they earths,” Julie Klinger told me. Julie is an associate professor at UW Madison and literally wrote the book on rare earth elements—Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. I interviewed her last week, the day after Trump signed a rare

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Inclining with Age

Over the course of one week I will have had the opportunity to watch two of the greatest athletes of all time compete at the

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The Best?

The use of advertising slogans must be as old as advertising itself. But if you are like me, most slogans are immediately forgotten if they

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Manufacturing Value

I’ve been interested in K&K Screw Products since I sold the founder of the company his first three Davenport screw machines a million years ago.

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Machining 2025?

If mighty General Electric is in such bad shape that its Board is considering breaking the company apart, it makes one consider how our best

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Acmesaurus

The sound that a 20 ton traveling crane makes as it stolidly rolls north to south, south to north, on its electrified path, is very

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Making the Nut

We all absorb things from our childhood that literally wire our cerebral cortex and remain with us as we mature. There are images, sayings, emblems

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