by david allan van nostrand | Jan 27, 2025 | Human Behavior, Psychology, The world around us
Physicians sometimes tap patients’ knees with a small rubber mallet. Their name for the quick, automatic kicking of the leg that results is the patellar reflex, an involuntary and instantaneous response. A physiology textbook published just after the Civil War said:...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 20, 2025 | The iterative process, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
The Switzerland-based Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS) created World Snow Day to attract kids to snow-related sports and activities, mostly snow skiing and snowboarding. Their vision is to become a giant, worldwide snowy fiesta that includes tobogganing, making...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 13, 2025 | Case Study, The Guild System
Leonardo de Vinci started as an apprentice. So did Benjamin Franklin and Henry Ford. What they learned as apprentices, they applied along their years-long journeys to becoming master craftsmen. Knights Templar says becoming a medieval apprentice was “A rite of...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 6, 2025 | Human Behavior, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
“Frosty the snowman / Was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose / And two eyes made out of coal. Oh, Frosty the snowman / Was alive as he could be. And the children say he could laugh and play / Just the same as you and me.” Those are only a few of...
