Community and Culture

Student: “What’s Land-grant?”

Me: “What do you mean ‘What’s Land-grant’? You’re sitting in one.”

We were preparing to start our weekly lab meeting when … » More …

The WSU Media team recently became the first outside group allowed to shoot onsite in Blue Origin’s 20 year history. HYPER alumni had a few important things to say. Check … » More …

(This is a preprint of my column “Cool Fuel” for Cold Facts, the magazine of the Cryogenic Society of America.)

Flash back for a moment to that time in … » More …

Looking back over my life a consistent thread … » More …

A Forward

By Yulia Gitter

As I sat on my back porch late one night chatting with some colleagues from the HYPER Lab, we somehow managed to come up on … » More …

It’s really simple.
Continuous improvement results in speed, more success, and safety.
Procedures are easy to continuously improve — they handle complex tasks with ease, they take input freely from many, they always take blame when something goes wrong, and they never complain about change.
I enjoy good procedures.
So…
Why do we bury procedures in complex lab manuals that are never where we need them?
Why do we leave procedures in passive black and white prose instead of fun active colorful mental maps?
Why do we teach procedures in individual lab exercises that nobody else will ever use?

I’ve sadly had to resort to ethical standards at several points in my (still brief) career. The odds are that you too will be faced with an ethical dilemma during … » More …

I created the image above back … » More …

I’m going to let you in on a secret I’ve kept for a long time —

I’ve given talks nearly every day for over a decade but presentations still make … » More …

The single largest source of waste in all of humanity is conflict. Yet conflict is essential for change. The grand challenge of humanity is having an appropriate context for conflict … » More …