by david allan van nostrand | Jan 25, 2021 | Feasibility studies, Organizational Behavior, Strategy
It was the thirteenth day in a row the temperature was over one hundred degrees. The air was so heavy and wet it was like we were wearing it. I was riding with Joe Hudson in his rusted Chevrolet. On its last legs, it had no A/C or shock absorbers. It lurched and...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 18, 2021 | Misinformation traps, Shaky Science, Voodoo Statistics
Radium, a solid, is one of forty radioactive elements (uranium, plutonium are the best-known). Discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, it glows in the dark and has a half-life of 1,600 years. Its less-toxic cousin radon (originally called radium emanation) is...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 11, 2021 | Misinformation traps, Organizational Behavior, Shoot the messenger
More than 2,000 years ago in Greece, a playwright named Sophocles wrote about strong-willed, highly principled characters who encountered seemingly insurmountable ethical problems. Sophocles’ interest was in individuals who would not compromise their principles,...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 4, 2021 | Items in the News, Shoot the messenger
Eleven years after Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Douglas Corrigan took off from New York in his plane and headed for California. He landed in Ireland, claiming he lost his direction in the clouds and his compass had...
