by david allan van nostrand | Sep 29, 2025 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Leadership
The partisan crowd at this golf match just east of New York City was touted as America’s secret weapon. They were going to make lots of noise. But for two days, the every-other-year parade of costumed freaks was so quiet that one of the golfers said it was like...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 22, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Human Behavior, Items in the News, The world around us
These days, dozens of articles and opinions about fake news and accusations of fake news (two different things) are warning people to not accept things at face value because of this artificial intelligence thing. Marvin Gaye used to tell us to believe half of what we...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 15, 2025 | Advertising, Misinformation traps, Shaky Science
When they called themselves the Sales Department, they had only one job. It was selling the company’s products. Salesmen, saleswomen, and salespersons who missed their sales quotas lost their jobs.* Now that they changed their name to marketers, their job is to...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 8, 2025 | Anthropology, Human Behavior, Language, Point of view
All of the letters and sounds in the word ask are also in the word aks. When the letters S and K trade places, the word ends up sounding like axe, the woodsman’s sharp-bladed implement for chopping trees. People who say “Axe me” are fortunate that Little...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 1, 2025 | Americana, Items in the News, The Wayback Machine
The first section of highway that would later become part of Germany’s Autobahn was opened in 1932. Contrary to the common perception, Hitler did not plan or create the Autobahn. He did get on board quickly, though, when his military advisors told him that the...
