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No one noticed their co-worker in
the next cubicle was dead for five days
Social isolation as a psychosocial risk factor


High court rules that RSIs don’t exist
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science and health issue ...

Ergonomics in Zero-G

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.

To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and 12 billions dollars developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300° C.

The Russians used a pencil.

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