John Downer

Jul 22, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Kristen Haring |Adolfo Plasencia |Karen Bakker |John Downer

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Every night thousands of men retreat to radio stations elaborately outfitted in suburban basements or tucked into closets of city apartments to talk to local friends or to strangers on the other side of the world. They communicate by speaking into a microphone, tapping out Morse code on a telegraph key, or typing at the keyboard of a teletypewriter.

Jul 18, 2024 | shareandstocks.com | John Downer

1 hour agoBy John Downer, Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft’s door plug fell out in flight – all because a bolt was missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer. For a flight to be imperiled by a simple and preventable manufacturing or maintenance error is an anomaly with potentially far-reaching implications.

Jul 18, 2024 | bbc.com | John Downer

How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giantAlamyEarlier this year, a Boeing aircraft's door plug fell out in flight – all because a bolt was missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer. For a flight to be imperiled by a simple and preventable manufacturing or maintenance error is an anomaly with potentially far-reaching implications.

Jun 21, 2024 | jme.bmj.com | Helen Smith |John Downer |Jonathan Ives

Specific guidance to address the use of AI-CDSS is needed because the technology reflects such a significant change in healthcare delivery. As described above, existing clinical professional regulation regulates both professional-patient relations and intraprofessional relations. Where it pertains to the use of technology, guidance assumes passive tools that operate in fixed and predictable ways.

Apr 9, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | James Powell |John Downer |William Firebrace |Alain Bécoulet

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. When HMS Challenger set sail in 1872, some scientists still believed in the azoic theory: that life cannot exist below 300 fathoms, or 550 meters. Others thought that creatures lived in the abyss, but that the cold and dark prevented them from evolving. With no more than their dredges, the Challenger scientists soon disproved both ideas.