Talking to Kids About Quality Improvement

Like many people, I carry home the smells of my job. My last stop each day for one employer was the bakery, so those days I smelled like cinnamon or cookies. I have also arrived at home smelling like peanut butter, onions, garlic and cooked fruit. All of these odors helped me describe to my daughter what I really did each day at work, as trying to explain to a child what quality control and assurance was really about was not on my list of things to attempt.

I never considered using M&Ms to explain quality to anyone before. Maybe it is because always eat them first and ask questions later.

This week, a look at how to talk with your kids about quality improvement.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." - Douglas Adams (English writer and dramatist, 1952 - 2001)

How to Talk With Your Kids About…Quality Improvement

Shape

The shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as color, content, and material composition.

Most shapes occurring in the physical world are complex. The shape of the Coca-Cola bottle...well, it doesn't defy traditional mathematical description, but it may require analysis by differential geometry to explain.

This week, a look at the shape of the Coke bottle.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "So Einstein was wrong when he said, 'God does not play dice.' Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen." - Stephen William Hawking, (British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, 1942 - )

Shape

Raw Milk

I am neither a proponent nor an opponent of raw milk. I am, however, a proponent of food safety. All too often, raw milk is tied to illnesses. And it isn't just due to the machine that is the modern food industry.

This week, a look at how raw milk killed 48 in an outbreak in Boston a century ago.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe (German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath, 1749 - 1832)

Raw Milk

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Lasers

In everyday life we're more or less surrounded by laser applications. Carpenters use laser instead of spirit levels, hunters use laser instead of ordinary telescopic sights and most likely, you use laser when you listen to music.

This week, a look at the history of the laser

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." - Cynthia Heimel (playwright, television writer, and author)

Light

The Healthy Mind Platter

Dr. Daniel Siegel, a respected clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, asked the question, what would the equivalent of a recommended daily diet for a healthy mind look like? To answer that question he created the Healthy Mind Platter, a pictorial overview of seven daily essential mental activities you should do each and every day to optimize brain matter and create well being.

This is such a simple and great reminder of what we need to do every day to have a healthy mind. My personal experience is that when I pay attention to these seven areas, life is good. When I don’t, it isn't.

This week, a look at the healthy mind platter.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "If one dream should fall & break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up & begin again." - Flavia Weedn (contemporary inspirational writer and artist, 193? - )


The Healthy Mind Platter

Cameras

The term camera comes from camera obscura, which is Latin for "dark chamber". This was an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura, and now is understood to be a device that records and stores images, whether they be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies.

This week, a look at the history of the camera.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." - Red Auerbach (American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics,1917 - 2006)



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