Nature vs Nurture
Americans spend a fortune on flowers and flowering plants, potted and cut. Articles in recent years show that we spend well over $35B on lawn and garden supplies, and an additional $45B for gardening and landscaping services. For cut flowers and house plants, add $40B to that. How many of us have traveled miles out … [Read more…]
There was a man I knew some years back, one of those people that all southerners grew up with, a good ol’ boy who could be tough, ornery, and highly racist one minute, and the next minute could be tender-hearted and generous – even toward black folk. It’s one of those scratch-your-head things that I … [Read more…]
The word cradle comes from the same Germanic root as the word cart. Which makes sense; the movement of either a cradle or a cart will put a child to sleep. Or the movement of a car, another related word. All parents have seen our children refuse to take a nap, and then watch them … [Read more…]
The aids impact went far beyond the victims, because it changed the rest of us and — perhaps — created a more tolerant and compassionate world.
In the past, menial labor was in great demand, and not much thinking was needed. That short-sighted attitude will not take us into the future.
For an approach to how primitive we are today, imagine what humanity will think of our ideas in 10,000 years. They will find our vanity laughable…
There are administrators, and even some teachers, who believe that slow learners do not want to learn, they are non-learners. The facts argue otherwise.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Progress is a new concept in human development. And that means we have to rethink our approaches to change, and the rate of change.
When things go well, stick to the traditional, don’t try new things. When you’re desperate, try new things. That’s the way biology and business look at it.
So what happens when you have enough, but your competitors are improving? It’s never happened before, and so we need a new way to look at it.
Child’s play is child’s work, and Hide & Seek is not the innocent game it seems. Like so much of life, it is really a game of survival, of life and death.