A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe. In a lawsuit filed last month, former Prosper, Inc. salesman Chad Hudgens alleges his managers also allowed […]
Month: February 2008
Epic Meeting
Epic Meeting ?Modelling of Interaction Between a Spatula and a Human Brain,? Kim V. Hansen, Lars Brix, Christian F. Pedersen, Jens P. Haase and Ole V. Larsen, Medical Image Analysis, vol. 8, 2004, pp. 23?33. (Thanks to Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, who are at Aalborg University, Denmark, explain that: […]
March mini-AIR
The March issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: How to Drastically Reduce Crime; Dekay, an Emblematic Man; Self and Fruits and Vegetables; Yet Another S-Kitty Question; Side-Scan Steep-Slope Sonographs Poet; Baking by the Dead; Cognitive Head-Itch, Laid-on Sense; etc. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every […]
Music to stand bolt upright to
To keep old people from falling down so much, says Dr Frederick R Carrick, play them songs sung by someone special. But Dr Carrick cautions that this is a musical power distinct from the mundane sort that shatters glass or eardrums or a listener’s complacency. So rare is this potency that only one singer – […]