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...wireless network also provides GPS correction signals for what Mitchell calls his "most innovative work": real-time kinematics (RTK) nozzle control, which he helped develop for pesticides. Normally, when farmers spray their fields, they have to make several passes over the land to ensure every odd angle has been soaked. When they cross a waterway, they have to manually turn the sprayer off and on. "This is expensive and takes time," Mitchell says. With the RTK nozzle, the controller knows where the land has already been sprayed and turns the valves off automatically. Mitchell estimates this cuts...
Despite working with several companies--KEE Technologies, Trimble and Capstan--to develop the sprayer this past summer, Mitchell does not stand to make any money from his innovations. Although he tests John Deere products on his farm, he will not sign a contract or do testimonials for any company. "If something that starts in my head is used, that is absolute gratification--it's better than money." In the past few years, Mitchell has traveled the globe, from France to Japan, giving presentations on how wireless and GPS technologies can help farms. He has also been host to a steady...
...more and more studies have come out to support the paradoxical notion that the best way to prevent allergies is to expose kids to the allergens that cause them. Scientists in Denmark found that the more pets a child has, the less likely he or she is to develop allergies later in life. Having siblings, living on a farm or spending time in a day-care center also reduces allergies. Why? Presumably because exposing still-developing immune systems to allergens primes the body to recognize them as harmless. The protective effect is negated, however, if parents expose a child...
...that they’re forms of communication. What makes an article wonderful is that we relate to the people in it—the author, the subject, even the editor. Since FM is all about giving people their 15 minutes of fame as well as allowing journalists to develop a voice, I like to think that we facilitate little moments of interpersonal relationships throughout Harvard every Thursday morning...
Josef Fischer, head of the surgery department at BIDMC and Mallinckrodt Professor of Surgery at HMS, has led the effort to expand. Among other initiatives, Fischer recruited Daniel B. Jones from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, who brought his Dallas-based team with him to Boston to develop a new minimally invasive surgery program...