by david allan van nostrand | Nov 29, 2021 | Human Behavior, Using Information
You’ve seen it in dozens of films, mostly in black and white. Somewhere outside in the dark of night, three guys take out cigarettes. One of them strikes a wooden match. The match flares up from the phosphorous in the tip and then settles down to a steady yellow...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 22, 2021 | Items in the News
The desperate young husband was at the roulette table gambling what little money he and his wife had left. It was his only chance to earn enough money to get them out of Vichy-controlled Morocco to Lisbon and from there to the United States. But the trip from...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 15, 2021 | Case Study, Customer Satisfaction
In the days of stagecoaches, buckboards and covered wagons, crude wooden wheels turned around crude wooden axles, producing lots of friction and heat. To keep the wooden wheels and axles from burning away, they were lubricated by slathering them with lots of axle...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 8, 2021 | Point of view, Veterans Day
When we landed on Wake Island, I got a taste of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean very different than the one I got flying high above empty water for hours. Wake Island is a two square mile dot in the ocean 2,300 miles west of Honolulu and 2,000 miles east of Tokyo....
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 1, 2021 | Items in the News, Research
That quizzical look on dogs’ faces when they cock their heads at an angle always makes for a great photo. A story on the science.org website says that when dogs cock their heads like this, they are doing more than just being cute. A first-ever study that looked into...
