Malcomb Gladwell popularized the notion that 10,000 hours of repetition could make you a virtuoso in his 2008 book, Outliers: The ...

[starbox] The mailman delivered some used books to my house this week, so I expect to be blogging a bit about their content in the coming weeks....

[starbox] The last of my uncles died this week. In my parents’ generation he was considered a successful man, despite not having a college degre...

[starbox] The Memorial Day holiday means different things to different people. To some it is the official start of summer, although the erratic ...

[starbox] Aside from the pure mechanical beauty of it, my favorite thing about the Indy 500 is the tradition. What’s more, few events can match ...

[starbox] The magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and many special features will be published about technological breakthroug...

I belong to a number of online technical forums besides contributing to the occasional “Ask the Expert” column here at Gear Technology.

[starbox] Over the years, some of the luster has come off the Indianapolis 500, but it remains a major cultural influence. I caught the racing b...

[starbox] This week’s Helical Gear Rating Committee meetings included a much hoped for improvement: a new member! Not only that, a new member un...

[starbox] I began this blog with an appeal for abstracts for the 2014 AGMA Fall Technical Meeting. For those of you who had an abstract accepted...