Kickstart: Taking a hit, collecting data - Plastics News

Taking a hit, collecting data

When the University of Wisconsin's shot squad faces disconnected against Oklahoma State astatine the Guaranteed Rate Bowl successful Phoenix Dec. 27, a radical of researchers volition beryllium pursuing numbers that aren't related to the last score.

The Badgers are portion of a survey involving the NFL and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to usage sensors embedded successful rima guards worn by the squad to measure on-field injuries.

The high-tech mouthguard sensors "measure kinematic details specified arsenic interaction speed, direction, force, determination and severity of caput impacts," the aesculapian schoolhouse said successful a quality release. "Insights gleaned from the information … volition assistance pass the NFL's attack to wounded simplification and alteration caput impacts overall."

UW volition besides beryllium capable to usage the information to support its players safer.

NFL officials noted that UW and 3 different colleges progressive successful the survey — the University of Alabama, University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill and University of Washington — are "direct pipelines" to nonrecreational football, which means players tin beryllium tracked implicit a longer play of time.

What does it mean to beryllium a liable company?

In its caller database of "America's Most Responsible Companies 2023," Newsweek, moving with probe and information steadfast Statista, admits it's hard to nail down specifics.

"There is nary acceptable explanation but mostly it is utilized arsenic shorthand for 'Our institution is not a soulless instrumentality designed to bash perfectly thing — nary substance however destructive, reckless oregon dishonest — successful pursuit of a buck,'" Newsweek Global Editor Nancy Cooper writes successful an introduction.

The 2023 database includes immoderate large firms successful the plastics field. Auto supplier and molder Lear Corp. comes successful astatine No. 36. Packaging steadfast Berry Global Group Inc. is No. 47. Further down you'll find materials companies specified arsenic Celanese, Eastman and PPG. (Cooper notes that the largest fig of "responsible companies," 55 of them, were from the materials and chemicals business.)

I cognize this little sampling of companies that made the chopped person immoderate of you questioning wherefore they didn't fertile higher, portion others privation to cognize however they could perchance beryllium included astatine all.

I don't person the answers to either of those questions. But arsenic Cooper writes, the database is an effort to place those firms "that are really superior astir trying to beryllium bully guys."

Expect immoderate aggravated questioning astir the prime of acrylic aquariums aft a high-profile nonaccomplishment of the 50-foot-high AquaDom successful Berlin connected Dec. 16 that killed the 1,500 food housed wrong it.

The AquaDom, housed wrong a Radisson edifice successful the German capital, burst earlier 6 a.m., destroying not lone the aquarium and its residents but besides heavy damaging the edifice lobby and injuring 2 people. The attraction opened successful 2003 and was renovated successful 2020, according to Reuters.

Emergency officials said determination was nary motion of immoderate onslaught connected the aquarium and section reports pointed to a imaginable defect successful the AquaDom's operation for the cause.