Suicides roil Chinese tech giant

Suicides roil Chinese tech giant
Psychologists and Buddhist monks have come to console workers. There is a suicide hotline, piped-in music and a stress-release center where workers are invited to hit a punching bag with a picture of their supervisor.

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Suicides roil Chinese company that makes iPhones

Suicides roil Chinese company that makes iPhones
Psychologists and Buddhist monks have come to console workers. There is a suicide hotline, piped-in music and a stress-release center where workers are invited to hit a punching bag with a picture of their supervisor.

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Suicides roil factory in China

Suicides roil factory in China
Nine workers at a computer component maker have killed themselves this year. Psychologists and monks have been called in; there are now punching bags. Experts cite an expectation gap of young workers. Psychologists and Buddhist monks have come to console workers. There is a suicide hotline, piped-in music and a stress-release center where workers are invited to hit a punching bag with a picture …

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Nano Tekno: Everything Went Black

A dreamy medley of nanoclips showing grippers that try to wrestle nanotubes and nanowires – watch them fight for their lives, as the “giant vice” close in for a better grip. Music: Taiis.mymusic.dk, www.soundvenue.com The films show phenomena like sticktion – the nanotubes cling to the jaws – bending, sliding, breaking and even melting of a Bismuth nanowire – who could not stand the heat from the electrothermal arm (heated by current). The films were shot by Volkmar Eichhorn at Oldenburg University, experiments done by Volkmar, Kenneth Carlson and Karin N Andersen, Kenneth and Karin made the grippers, and the tubes were made by Ken Teo and Ian Bu at Cambridge University.