by david allan van nostrand | Mar 25, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Items in the News, Using Information
Desk Set is a 1957 movie starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy is an expert hired to modernize a television network’s research department. When the employees find out powerful new computers are coming, they are afraid they will lose their jobs to...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 18, 2019 | Human Behavior, Psychology
The statistics vary from study to study, but most agree that more than two out of three of us have stolen something from work. For most of us, it is small things. Pens, pencils, and paper clips are pilfered all year long. There are seasonal patterns, too. In August,...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 11, 2019 | Conformity, Customer Satisfaction
Ask around and most people will tell you McDonald’s did. They are wrong. McDonald’s saw no reason to have a drive-thru (the spelling favored by the industry because it’s a shorter word and saves money on signs) until 1975, the same year Burger King decided...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 4, 2019 | Items in the News, Statistics, Using Information
Thanks to decades of marketing, including 21 years of Mr Whipple squeezing the Charmin, the United States leads the world in toilet paper usage. Americans, who make up 4% of the world’s population, use 20% of the world’s toilet paper. Fortune says the $31 billion...
