by david allan van nostrand | May 27, 2024 | Human Behavior, Strategy, The world around us
What is The Rule of 3? The Marx Brothers comedy act began on vaudeville stages in 1905, moved to Broadway, and then on to motion pictures. Theirs was a stage mother whose parents were a ventriloquist husband married to a yodeling harpist wife, said to be the source of...
by david allan van nostrand | May 20, 2024 | Advertising, Americana, Human Behavior, The Wayback Machine
What is Burma-Shave? On November 14th in 1860 in Coburg, Germany, Gottfried Kirch was the first to discover a comet by using a telescope. On December 4th of the same year, 1,000 kilometers away in Rome, a hen laid an egg that had an irregularity on its shell that...
by david allan van nostrand | May 13, 2024 | critical thinking, Research, Using Information
The word polar first meant the end of an axis. Visualize a world globe. Locate the North and South Poles and notice how they are geographic opposites on the axis around which the earth rotates once a day. After a time. the word polar was used to refer to things...
by david allan van nostrand | May 6, 2024 | How to tell good research from bad, The iterative process
NINE STEPS IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS: An Overview of Using Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method to Gain a Competitive Advantage In the Marketplace Good business decisions are based upon good information, and good information is the result of carefully planning...
