Do you need motivated? Here's some quotes David Pye compiled that just might help.

Twice a year, federal agencies publicly list their anticipated regulatory actions for the near- and long-term. Known as the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, the extensive listing covers agencies from the EPA and OSHA to the Peace Corps and Railroad Retirement Commission. For industry, the Unified Agenda provides us insights into what the government has in store for you.

The Supreme Court issued a decision in a criminal case in June that has implications in trade-secret law.

Let’s finish the discussion we started last time. As shown in Table 1, it is important that you look at the surfaces that you want to braze together and decide if they meet the design criteria needed for brazing.

There was a day, not that long ago, when the “woods” in your golf bag were actually made from wood – primarily persimmon and maple. At that time, your irons were mostly forged.

David Pye's series on surface treatments continues.

Let’s wrap up our discussion on fatigue cracks.

Ahead of the July 4th weekend, a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators formed 11 working groups and began in earnest to craft legislative language for their infrastructure bill to spend $974 billion over five years ($1.2 trillion over eight years). A group of 20 Senators – 10 from each party – announced an agreement with President Biden on top-line spending numbers for a bill and must now craft legal language for priorities from water and power to permitting and ports. This is a long process far from close to done because liberal Senators may not vote for the agreement if it reaches the floor, where it would require 60 votes under the current process.

My previous two blog posts discussed the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,000,000 on May 11, 2021 and other milestone patents. In this post, I discuss the remaining milestone patents.

Do coins burn a hole in your pocket? At some point in their manufacturing process, they certainly could. Hard to believe, but thermal processing plays multiple roles in the manufacture of the coins we use every day.