• Emails from EPA’s Pruitt Reveal Close Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry

    Recently released emails reveal that as the Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt and his staff members held strategy sessions with energy company officials to combat EPA regulations and encouraged those officials to help draft letters to the federal government. In response to a judge’s order, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 21 released 7,564

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  • Causes Versus Reasons: Learning from the Best

    Whenever I try to better understand why accidents happen, I think back to my days in quality control, when I kept a “Would-you-believe” file of all the ways a product could be ruined or compromised during the manufacturing process. We constantly are bombarded daily in news reports with vehicular accidents, violence and workplace accidents and

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  • Construction Worker Killed When Pipe Rolls Off a Trailer

    The Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a construction worker who died at the site of the Highway 169 project. Construction worker David Earl Hyde was killed Feb. 20 when a large metal pipe rolled off a trailer and struck him. According to the state patrol, the 38-year-old Missouri man

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  • I Spy: Researchers Use Eye-Tracking Technology to Detect Deception

    Job interviews might just become a whole lot more interesting and informative if researchers at Iowa State University have anything to say about it. The average person has about a 50-50 chance of knowing when someone is lying. Iowa State University researchers are using eye-tracking technology to improve those odds, specifically for interviews conducted online.

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