These specially trained detectives — fewer than two dozen — do the forensic work of measuring skid marks, reviewing closed-circuit video recordings and diagraming crash sites.
Blue jeans and electronics were arriving from factories scattered from China to Costa Rica, and even white-collar jobs were slipping overseas, but the sophisticated work of measuring risk and engineering investments remained the province of the geniuses running Wall Street.
A Kickstarter success has just closed its seed funding round, raising $375,000 to continue its work of measuring the wind using a network of smartphones with a low-cost, electronics-free hardware accessory combined with a mobile app.
The guy doing the more skilled work of measuring the ingredients for the concrete is a thin but muscular 27-year-old named Chen Valentine.
The painstaking work of measuring the damage, done by volunteers, will be sent as a report to Libya's competing governments, the United Nations and international donors, he explained.
I wish the academics would do the hard work of measuring effectiveness of prevention efforts with the same vigor as they complete these simple survey studies.
