by david allan van nostrand | Oct 28, 2024 | Assumptions, Experiments, Items in the News
What Is The Curse of Knowledge? Brothers Chip and Dan Heath are co-authors of four New York Times best sellers that have sold more than 3 million copies in 33 languages. Chip is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Dan is a Senior Fellow at Duke...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 21, 2024 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, The world around us
Wife Beaters As the most-repeated-as-gospel origin story goes, a Detroit man was arrested in 1947 for beating his wife to death. Newspapers across the country printed a photo of James Hartford, Jr. wearing a stained and dirty sleeveless undershirt. The caption below...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 14, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Items in the News, Technology
There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him alone all day, so he thought upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some excitement. He rushed down towards the village...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 7, 2024 | Americana, Items in the News, The Wayback Machine
His name wasn’t Christopher Columbus It was Cristóbal Colón. He didn’t discover America Generally speaking, when they came upon places unknown to them, European explorers saw themselves as being the first to discover it, which was almost never the case. If you still...
