by david allan van nostrand | Jun 9, 2025 | Case Study, Items in the News, The Wayback Machine
Long ago, people left their waste where it fell and moved on, just like the animals. Later on, they started disposing of it where the stink of rotting organic matter wouldn’t bother them. By law, residents of the city of Athens had to dump garbage one mile from...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 21, 2025 | Case Study, Experiments, Human Behavior, Teaching
Forks in the road come along more often for some than others, but everyone makes choices along the way. Some opt to keep everything the same and live their entire lives in the same place they were born. Some never leave the nest, living at home with parents their...
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 | Aug 5, 2024 | Case Study, How to tell good research from bad, Misinformation traps, Voodoo Statistics
When I was living in Trinidad and Tobago (locally abbreviated as TT), I taught interactive seminars in Human Behavior for MBAs at the University of the West Indies Graduate Business School. We met Saturday mornings because all the students were employed full-time in...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 19, 2024 | Case Study, Human Behavior, The Wayback Machine
What is a “Message to García?” In 1897, William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States and Leon Czolgosz was an anarchist who believed the American government was organized in ways that allowed the wealthy to exploit the poor. In 1898, the...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 24, 2023 | Case Study, Strategy, Using Information
When we click on a link to a product in a review, we are taken directly to a product page on a retailer’s website. No one is surprised to learn that the retailer with the most product links is Amazon. There will be product links to other sellers, of course, but Amazon...
