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...Sakichi Toyoda developed another concept, jidoka, or "automation with a human touch." Think of it as built-in stress detection. At Toyota, that means work stops whenever and wherever a problem occurs. (Any employee can pull a cord to shut down the line if there is a problem.) That way, says Steven Spear of MIT, author of Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and an expert in the dynamics of high-performance companies, "When I see something that's not perfect, I call it out, figure out what it is that I don't know and convert...
...case of “human error” caused 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel to spill at a Massachusetts Water Resources Authority plant in Cambridge yesterday morning, with about 1,000 gallons of the fuel leaking into the Charles River...
Frederick A. Laskey, MWRA executive director, said that “human error” in the configuration of the facility’s valves caused a tank to be overpressurized, resulting in fuel going through the vent of the facility. The fuel spilled first onto the roof, then onto the driveway, and eventually into the Charles...
...multifaceted nature of religion, that it’s about so much more than belief in God and it’s true that it’s innate to human nature—as evolutionary biologists are demonstrating more and more. Also romantic love—the kind of deification of the love object, the sense that, “if that person doesn’t love me back, I am doomed.” It’s got a kind of religious aspect to it. That’s what I very much wanted to portray...
Last May, Wrangham wrote “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human,” a book about the impact of cooking on human evolution. He said traveling to Tanzania will allow him to study the effects of fire directly...