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Throwback Thursday: Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

With the closing of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, thoughts turn to, uh, different times. When cooperation and collaboration seemed to be more accessible. Here’s a look-back to 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing.  Beijing Brief: The Da Shui Gua (The Big Watermelon) By...

The French Connection Revisited

By Mike Violette Article first appeared in EMC Magazine, Volume 4, Quarter 2. 2015 I grabbed an old copy of The French Connection from my mother’s bookshelf. The paperback, doggy and yellowed, is a chronicle of “The World’s Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation.” It is...

Throwback Thursday: A Wreck of a Story

When I was a kid and found out that my dad was an ‘engineer,’ the vision of him driving a train popped into my head because the word engineer was firmly associated with driving a locomotive. It was a few years until that image became disassociated as I learned the...

Throwback Thursday: EMC Founders Found!

I’ve been a member of the “EMC Society” for several decades, working and communing with fine folks aplenty. This throwback goes back a while and features our EMCS Historian Dan Hoolihan, who is keen to protect the memories of our Society’s glorious past and...

Throwback Thursday: Lightning Catches Bullet

Combining our Interest in Lighting and our Fascination with China Lightning Catches Bullet Mike Violette Pan frantically pulled on the emergency lever, but too late and to no avail. Traveling just over 30 meters per second, the nacelle of high speed Train D301 closed...