Too many scientists, not enough managers; Economy hampered by focus on the wrong disciplines, study finds So says a May 23 headline in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The report itself has the duller title “Strengthening management for prosperity,” and was written by Roger L. Martin and James B. Milway of the excitingly named Institute […]
Month: July 2007
Will they, will they, will they accept?
When new college graduates visit a big company, and are subsequently offered a job, which of them will accept? The answer, as discovered by three high-powered American researchers, may be more subtle than it appears. ? The people who say they are “likely” to accept the job offer probably will. ? The people who say […]
Carlisle Landel joins LFHCfS
Carlisle Landel has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Jolene Windle, who nominated him, says: Dr. Carlisle P. Landel is a scientist. He has luxuriant flowing hair. In support of assertion #1: a) Carlisle received his AB in Biology from UC Santa Cruz in 1975 (that alone should almost certainly guarantee him admittance […]
ECONOMICS LESSON: supply & demand (machetes)
Investigator Adiyasa Dwitama alerts us to a new lesson in economics, specifically on the concept of supply and demand. A July 3, 2007 Reuters report on ABC News says: Machete market collapses after elections The price of machetes has halved in parts of Nigeria since the end of general elections in April because demand from […]
Applied science: piscine music
Scientists desperate for reluctant sharks to mate plan to pipe the romantic music of Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini into their north-west England aquarium tank. Display supervisor Carey Duckhouse says 20-year-old male brown shark Bloodnose has spurned the advances of 15-year-old Lucy since they were introduced a year ago at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre…. They […]
It’s impressive, and distracting, to mention the brain
Distracted by the brain About a year ago, I referred readers to Paul Bloom’s discussion of Deena Skolnick‘s study of how mixing in a bit of irrelevant talk about neuroscience “turned bad [psychological] explanations into satisfactory ones” (“Blinded by neuroscience“, 6/28/2006). Now a paper documenting that research is in press: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. […]