Welcome to the KFact digest. Every week we publish 5 KFacts, a daily tweet that provides an Engineering Fact of the Day. These KFacts are available every afternoon on Twitter (@KnovelUpdates), with more information on our Facebook Fan Page. Every Friday we  provide a digest of the week’s KFacts on our blog in case you missed them. These KFacts are all taken from our Titles of the Week, giving you…

Back in the old days (you know, BEFORE the internet) every village had an idiot, everyone knew who the village idiot was and everyone kept that fact in mind whenever the idiot would speak. Now with the advent of the internet, normal people have to deal with people they’ve never met and we have no way of knowing who is or is not some village’s idiot. To make matters worse,…

On Monday, February 8th, Knovel will be holding a panel discussion at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, CA. This free event is entitled Green Engineering, Sustainability and Its Impact on Design and Engineering. The panel is being held in conjunction with the Pacific Design and Manufacturing Show taking place in Anaheim, CA that week. During recent focus groups, one of the points we heard over and over again…

Welcome to another edition of K Exchange’s Monday Link Review, our weekly look at all the best science and engineering links from across the web. Popular Science takes a look at the future of space travel, and it’s not being run by NASA. ENR continues looking back on 2009 with The Top 25 Newsmakers. Speaking of looks back, Fixr.com gives us the Top Ten Green Structures of 2009. And finally,…

Happy New Year!  If you’ve been following the Knovel news and visiting Knovel Lab during the past year, I think you’ll agree that things have not been dull around here. In 2009, we made some significant changes in the way we develop our products – namely, making design partners central to our world, and giving you Knovel Lab, where we test the new ideas that result from design partner observations. …