Anticipating things to come

Things to come.

The Shape of Things to Come

What do you do when you're doing everything right and it's still coming out all wrong? We had a case like this not too long ago, where a shop was making a spindle and bore assembly for a high precision application. The owner complained that while he was machining well within his specified -.0002 tolerance on the shaft, his parts were either causing excessive bearing loads, or worse, not fitting...

Metabolic Syndrome: Sign of Things to Come

Metabolic syndrome: sign of things to come In a recent article in Vascular Health and Risk Management, Paoletti and colleagues (2006) pointed out that individuals with metabolic syndrome (MS) have twice the risk of dying and three times higher risk of having heart attacks or stroke compared with individuals without this syndrome. Moreover, people with MS have a five-fold greater risk of develop...

If good things come from above, do bad things come from below?

Factors in the synovial fluid that maintain healthy articular cartilage, such as hyaluronic acid and lubricin, come from above. Is it possible that factors which lead to the destruction of cartilage come from below in the subchondral bone? The recent acquisition of tools to probe early events in osteoarthritis is shedding new light on possible contributions from this compartment on the initiati...

Fred Chang: The shape of things to come

JCB • VOLUME 213 • NUMBER 5 • 2016 498 Fred Chang grew up in Palo Alto, California. It was the early days of Silicon Valley, and he has memories of his father, an engineer, starting a company in the garage and building new video tape recorders. However, rather than following in his father’s engineering footsteps, the young Chang had instead found himself fascinated by the wonderfully diverse sh...