Showing posts with label engineering ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering ethics. Show all posts
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Value and Worth

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“What’s it worth?” Bill Bradford ( Wikipedia here )  asked me. That was about 1976 in his store, Liberty Coins, on Abbott Road in East Lansi...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

A Good Place with Inadequate Philosophy

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We enjoyed  The Good Place . We watched it on disc and look forward to the release of Season 4. The show’s chatty dialogs on moral philosop...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Most Popular Pageviews

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I write this blog for myself. As a contract technical writer, I get paid to write what other people want. I enjoy it. That work is near the ...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Dishonest Scientists: Who is the Guardian?

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The "Routine Activities" theory of crime developed by Marcus Felsen and Lawrence Cohen posited a crime triangle: a willing perpet...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Ahmed Mohamed Doesn't Live Here Any More

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A good news story polarizes friends. Ahmed Mohamed and his family are moving to Qatar after his meeting the President of the United States f...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Engineers and Jihadi

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Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, who killed a sailor and four Marines at a supply depot in Chattanooga, after opening fire on a recruiting offic...
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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Morality and Ethics

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Ayn Rand called her theory of egoism "Objectivist ethics." In her essays, she wrote mostly about morality and very little about et...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

How to Hire a Technical Writer

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Readability is the only metric.  Microsoft Word offers a readability score under the Grammar & Spelling checker off the Tools menu.  The...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Teaching Ethics to Student Engineers

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Ayn Rand observed that for most people, “integrity” is not putting your hand in your neighbor’s pocket, when, in truth, integrity is having ...