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2 months ago | 
incompliancemag.com | Brian Kent
In 1967, while on patrol in the Gulf of Tokin, the United States Navy Carrier USS Forrestal was executing wartime missions over North Vietnam. At 10:45 AM local time, the ship was preparing to launch more than 27 A-4 Skyhawk and F-4B Phantom Fighter jets, all fully fueled and armed with a mixture of iron bombs, precision missiles, and Zuni rocket launchers.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
publications.ersnet.org | Brian Kent
IntroductionAsthma is one of the most common respiratory diagnoses, affecting ∼300 million people around the world [1]. Most patients can successfully achieve disease control with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), which have been the bedrock of asthma care since their introduction 50 years ago [2].
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
medium.com | Brian Kent
It’s done. The Unbelievable has COME TRUE! P actually DOES equal NP!Brian Kent·Follow4 min read·--AP (borrowed): In an astonishing announcement this morning on Twitter, formerly known as “X” — a belatedly and astonishing free-from-sin who, rather un0unIronically is product of an Aston Martin free household scientist, lately of Cornell University, had this to say:“I wish I hadn’t been held back so much.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
highways-news.com | Brian Kent |Adrian Tatum
By Brian Kent, National Technical Director, TarmacAs people, we can sometimes expect the future to be radically different to the present, but we need to be realistic. With that in mind, I’m not going to try and future gaze too far ahead but instead, look briefly at the emerging trends, issues and desirable outcomes for the highways sector in 2024.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
briankent.medium.com | Brian Kent
I have a theory, and it’s short so I’m here betting the next seventeen minutes (the very last of my minutes on this 12th of January, 2024) that it will resonate with *at least one person* and hopefully that *at least one person* will spend two minutes’ reading time and *at least one hundred words* explaining to me why they believe what I am saying here in [Author’s note: I will get to my own nomenclature (the “Petty bickering (BFK19329.98819)” stuff) toward the bottom — I think it’s worth a...
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
briankent.medium.com | Brian Kent
Some are scratching their chins here, I bet, but let’s roll with it for a moment…Aren’t you wanting to believe you made the right choice? Aren’t you even more convinced that you made the right choice with each passing day *(at least until you — perhaps simply by chance or by some misfortune — find out you have a lemon.)I think you really are. In fact I know a little bit about confirmation bias — and it’s enough to tell you that I’m understating that last sentence: I know that you are.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
briankent.medium.com | Brian Kent
I had a habit of asking God — in my own personal language — what to do in what I called ‘critical situations.’ We generally carried on a pretty thriving dialogue[generally while people around me were saying things like:“Look at that guy talking to himself” or“What’s up with that guy?”If you couldn’t find the word ‘intense’ in the dictionary when you went there looking for it — well, it wasn’t only my fault. Other people are, too, and other people have the word overused on them.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
briankent.medium.com | Brian Kent
Continuing from the last piece, we’re following a pattern which is roughly ‘fractal staircase.’ This I will define as we go, and you don’t need to worry about the name because you followed so far — first it was 52 words (BAM!) — then it was 64[Note: this little ‘hand’ with the interior tracking will allow everyone to kind of ‘see how fast’ everyone else is ‘getting this.’ How?
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
briankent.medium.com | Brian Kent
[Author’s note: It is much to see ourselves, through the lens of our years; much to think of how far we’ve come from wherever we’ve been. It’s truly sad that we have not grown accustomed, yet, to taking for ourselves periodic brain-functioning tests — however they might be designed — so that we have an objective measure of how we are doing, and from repeated exposure to the test we grow accustomed to it, and perhaps have more faith in it.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
briankent.medium.com | Brian Kent
[The scene opens. A tired man at his desk, snow falling outside his window. He is leaning on his elbow, face in his palm, contemplating turning up the heat or getting some coffee. The clock in the corner of his desktop reads 8:11am Perfect timing, he muses.]“Ah but the heat in here is just fine. I will bring in some more ash wood that my seventy-nine year old father helped to harvest and delivered right straight to my house. I will have to thank him again.”Under water, he might have been.
