by david allan van nostrand | Apr 27, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Using Information
Long before the Europeans came, the Iroquois tribe lived across most of New York, Pennsylvania, and Eastern Canada. Like most societies, they had a creation story. “They swam to the Great Turtle, master of all the animals, who at once called a council. When all the...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 19, 2022 | Anthropology, Items in the News, The world around us
“Hello walls (Hello, hello). How’d things go for you today? Don’t you miss her since she up and walked away? And I’ll bet you dread to spend another lonely night with me, but lonely walls, I’ll keep you company.” This song about a...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 3, 2023 | Case Study, Human Behavior, The world around us, Using Information
In 2016, I converted the more than 1,000 slides I had built for my classroom lectures at the University of the West Indies into articles that I posted on a new site, LetsTakeACloserLook.com. The subject of most of those early articles was an amalgam of what I call the...
