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One of my favourite projects was - resolving a long standing fire safety issue on one of the first UK #protonbeams.
What’s the point of all this knowladge if we can’t do some good in the world!
Breast cancer patients take part in proton beam trial bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…
What’s the point of all this knowladge if we can’t do some good in the world!
Breast cancer patients take part in proton beam trial bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…
Here’s how I achieved in 30mins that which a global design team struggled with for months if not years
So we have new technology = proton-beam
The problem was a high RPM spinning shaft, going through a fire compartment wall & how do you make the fire seal.
So we have new technology = proton-beam
The problem was a high RPM spinning shaft, going through a fire compartment wall & how do you make the fire seal.
Traditional fire stopping wouldn’t work eg
Intumescent seals would heat activate with the shafts RPM friction
Proprietary fire stopping systems or collars would have the same issue
We had to separate the patient treatment from the plant areas
This was urgently needed tech
Intumescent seals would heat activate with the shafts RPM friction
Proprietary fire stopping systems or collars would have the same issue
We had to separate the patient treatment from the plant areas
This was urgently needed tech
Hi @jared_w_smith I really enjoyed your talk on typographic accessibility however there are a couple of things I’d like to pick up that I think would are worth a discussion at least.
The main one was about dyslexia. There is so much misinformation about this condition.
The main one was about dyslexia. There is so much misinformation about this condition.
Despite the cultural definitions which seem to include unrelated syndromes and traits, Developmental Dyslexia to give its proper name is a developmental disorder to do with phonological pricessing, see jnnp.bmj.com/content/74/12/…
The definition becomes muddied by psychologists who diagnose the symptoms, which could be caused by other things and attribution of unrelated traits and syndromes such as Irlen and mirroring, where there are as many dyslexic and non-dyslexic cases.
I'm #dyslexic. I was diagnosed 30 or more years ago. So I say with respect, stop calling #Dyslexia a super power. It belittles & glamourises a condition that is to many crippling & leads to terrible anxiety & self esteem issues. I struggle to read, I struggle to understand
What I've read. I struggle to process information & convert it to long term memory. I struggle with the lesser known fun that is false memories because of this processing deficit. To maintain an average academic ability, my brain had to work twice as hard as others.
Sure, I have a slightly different way of interpreting the world around me, this new #DyslexicThinking that LinkedIn is promoting. But it comes at significant cost. Now, it is going to be desirable to say you're dyslexic, when in reality you probably are not.
Students and educators/ practitioners should see Dyslexia as a huge asset - with the right environment and support the potential is exponential....I did not complete a book until I was 19 then got a pair of these… instagram.com/p/CAMDJkgJoPb/…
2/ ...Irlens Glasses... Whatever the science I read x10+ as fast and infinatley longer with no headaches...without them I am looking at one letter at a time as the text floats and shimmers/spins on top of the white paper that shoots back as my brain sees it in 3 dimensions as...
3/ ...the white of the page shines back through esp the 'O's 'D's... I believe this and Dyslexia are an asset, a valuable tool perhaps a throwback to our hunter gather ancestors thinking spatially to remember routes to water/food etc... The assets of perception of space, time....
