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Trimming the fat is great; cutting to the bone will reduce your revenues, your profits, and your survival prospects. We recently heard a CFO bragging about his ability to improve the profitability of companies: “I have worked with three businesses, and in each of them I have managed to increase profits while revenue is falling.” We’ve seen this mindset in a number of incarnations, typically from finance people (it’s tough for us finance guys to admit that) who work for a private equity firm or a portfolio company.

Bones have amazing electrical conductivity properties and, as one artist recently found out, can vibrate at the right frequencies to make a lovely macabre speaker set. Turned on its head, bone's response to physical stress can be used to produce music---or at least musical tones. That's what artist Boo Chapple discovered during the course of a year-long collaboration at the University of Western Australia's SymbioticA lab , the only research facility in the world devoted to providing access to wet labs to artists and artistically minded researchers.When Chapple began this project, she knew that extensive scientific literature suggested bone had what are known as piezoelectric properties

On a sweltering August evening in 2009 Pat Elliott noticed that her feet seemed swollen. Because she had been standing for hours while teaching a workshop in Phoenix, she was not surprised