Ever wonder why bartenders don't put out little bowls of melon balls for you to nibble on?  It's because you'd DRINK less!!!!!  That's why only super-salty, high-in-fat snacks are served.  They're hard to stop eating and, of course, they make you thirsty faster and more effectively than practically anything else you could ingest that doesn't say "This is NOT a food product.  Do NOT eat" on the package. Okay.  So, you eat salty snacks and you drink more alcohol.  The more alcohol you drink, the more animated you become.  The more animated you are, the likelier you are to have (hilarious!)...

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If you're old enough to remember the (original) Jetsons, you're old enough to be interested in assisted living.  More likely, given its average cost of $70,000 per year, you're interested in staying out of assisted living as long as possible.  Same goes for "less mature" readers out there who might be interested in keeping aging parents in their homes for even six months longer - given the potential savings of $35,000 to them or to their parents' estate, which is, of course, also "to them." Well, researchers at Washington State University** are trying to save you that money by developing home-based...

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TiER1 was one of 17 companies recognized by Governor Beshear Monday for receiving Kentucky matching funds for our SBIR research with NASA. Check out the full article here to learn more about the program!

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At TiER1, we make it a priority to promote the regions in which we do business by supporting and staying active in local civic and community organizations.  Most recently, TiER1 Pittsburgh was the presenting sponsor of the Quarterly Regional Investors Council luncheon of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development – a leading nonprofit economic development and civic leadership organization that works with private and public sector partners to improve the economy and quality of life in southwestern PA. With Pittsburgh having recently been named among the 20 must-see places to visit...

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In trying to get a "handle" on the cause of addiction to playing slot machines, psychologists long believed that the repetitive motion of pulling the lever - which sets off a complementary series of sounds and blinking lights - was a major contributor to the problem.  [Readers who lack slot machine-playing experience can get an idea of what the auditory part of this is like by listening to Pink Floyd's "Money" - three or four hundred times.] Across the last 20 years or so, a naturally-occurring field experiment has tested the "Handle Hypothesis" with no intent of doing so.  Handles (or levers...

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