Archive for January, 2009

Efficiency the Japanese Way

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Thanks to some recent reforms, Maine is a great place to die. The average time required to issue death certificates is down from over three months to just five days. These dramatic improvements in local governments come from a methodology engineering approach called “kaizen”, which originated in Japan.

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Counting is Fundamental

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Babies who are brand new to the world are not only adorable, but brilliant. According to The Economist, they can differentiate between two and three objects.

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