by david allan van nostrand | Nov 22, 2021 | Items in the News
The desperate young husband was at the roulette table gambling what little money he and his wife had left. It was his only chance to earn enough money to get them out of Vichy-controlled Morocco to Lisbon and from there to the United States. But the trip from...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 1, 2021 | Items in the News, Research
That quizzical look on dogs’ faces when they cock their heads at an angle always makes for a great photo. A story on the science.org website says that when dogs cock their heads like this, they are doing more than just being cute. A first-ever study that looked into...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 25, 2021 | Human Behavior, Items in the News
In the film Seabiscuit, the trainer tried to cure the horse’s nervousness by putting a goat in the stall with him to keep him relaxed. Seabiscuit grabbed the goat by the neck and threw it out of the stall. The trainer tried again with a horse named Pumpkin and a...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 18, 2021 | Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, The Myopia of Experts
People are sick of managers. The news is full of people not going back to their jobs and managers are a big reason. Commutes are seen as what they are – huge chunks of unproductive time to get to and from work so a hall monitor can loom over you and take...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 11, 2021 | Items in the News
In 1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin returned from a five-year voyage with his soon to be famous conclusion that humans and apes had common ancestors. His ship was named The Beagle. Genes had not been discovered yet, so Darwin knew nothing about them. But he...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 4, 2021 | Items in the News, Point of view
Frank Woolworth opened a store in Utica, New York in February of 1879. It failed three months later. He tried again in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He used the same sign he brought with him from Utica: Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store. That store was also a failure....
