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Update 11/19: This recent Huffington Post article made a terrific point about the way in which vertical farming may be a solution to two of the largest problems facing urban centers - high unemployment and little access to fresh food.

Some abbreviations and acronyms are like words in our vocabulary: we don’t even think twice when we see them. In the digital world, acronyms like LOL, and NP, are part of our colloquial language. Even in the business world, acronyms like PO are nearly universal to companies, and make up the fabric...

New technology is thrown at us every day. When that new technology arrives, we are asked (and sometimes forced) to update to it. If we don’t get the most recent version of the Galaxy S, or if we don’t have a Blu-Ray player, we are left behind our more technologically savvy peers.

In the past we've provided articles on what to do when a temperature "disaster strikes." We've also talked about the benefits of a robust temperature and humidity alarming system for products that are perishable: specifically those products that lose potency and become unsafe once exposed to...

Formerly reserved for the medical, pharmaceutical, and micro-electronics industries, clean rooms have become more widespread and prevalent across the world as the tech industry has continued to boom, and regulations have constricted their grasp on more quality control departments.

Industry terms can have different meanings to the different people inhabiting the industry. When we hear the term "Concrete Curing" we immediately think of temperature and evaporation. The construction worker on site doing the curing however, he may think of the strength and durability of the...

Ivy League Failures

We don’t want to give you a retroactive headache, asking you to think of a hectic and scary time in your hospital’s past, but . . . if you can suffer and stay with us for the next few hundred words, your hospital will be better equipped to handle its next emergency.

When we work with a hospital on installing any of our products, the bigger projects always involve the hospital’s IT team. Thus, we’ve talked with hospital IT professionals off and on for about 90 years, and increasingly in the last two years, with the creation of DicksonOne. Whenever we talk with...