color consolidation

In a recent press release, Danaher Corporation on 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. announced that it purchased X-Rite for approximately $625 million. X-Rite had purchased Pantone and Gretag, and the latter had purchased Macbeth. Danaher already owns well-known brands like Tektronix, Fluke, Leica Microsystems, Beckman Coulter, Videojet, and Esco (a leader in industrial digital printing) among others.

imagination and vision

In last month's post on conscious awareness I mentioned Kathy Mullen's work using an fMRI machine in Australia. Although that machine is one of the finest available, it is still a blunt instrument, but that it is all we can do with humans, where we are limited to non-invasive procedures.