Kent Harrington
Kent is a videographer and professional storyteller. He regularly blogs for AIChE on ChEnected. See his latest posts below. You can also follow Kent on twitter @harringtonkent.
ChEnected contributions
New Biofuels: 'Small-Research' Hooks Up With Big-Oil, Brazilian Sugar For Future Profits
After the oil shock of the 1970's the U.S .wanted to escape Opec's tight, constricting embrace. On the rebound, along came corn: midwestern and very available, with huge surpluses as far as the eye could see. Giddy, love-sick politicians went a courtin':
New TV Show 'Dean of Invention' Looks at Scientist's Cutting-Edge Technologies
What do you give a man who has over 400 patents (which include the insulin pump, robotic prosthetics and the Segway--beloved by mall cops everywhere.) ?
Great Tool: The World's First Pocket-Sized Radar Gun
If you want to measure the speed of anything, (let your imagination go wild) just hold this small precision device in your hand, aim it at the moving object, and the answer pops up instantly in the
One Empty, Yellow, (Belgian) Beer Crate x 30,000 = A Deeper Moment of Ecological Awareness
MIT's Carbon Nanotube Antennas Could Transform Solar Industry
An MIT chemical engineering group using
Meet the Scientists Who Just Won a MacArthur Grant
The MacArthur Genius Awards are awarded every year to people pursuing visionary ideas in the sciences and arts. They are given $500,000, no-strings-attached. See 2010 winners.
Do You Know Where Good Ideas Come From?
Have you ever wondered how people manage to think up ideas that transform our world? Maybe some of you have wondered this or have in fact been the originators of some great ideas.
Bioremediation: Cleaning Up Oil Spills to Spilled Beer -- Sorry Brawny
Just when events in the Gulf seemed dire, almost Biblical, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, (an apt Old Testament pun) reported that oil from the BP spill was rapidly breaking down. Many scientists were skeptical-- it smelled like spin. The post-Exxon Valdez consensus was directly challenged.
