Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland, was a happening place in the 1960s. Two recent news reports celebrate different aspects. Today the New York Times reports: William C. Patrick III, Expert on Germ Warfare, Dies at 84 … A scientist, Mr. Patrick made germ weapons for the American military from 1951 to 1969. He produced tons […]
Month: October 2010
Cartoon summary of Ig winners, in Portuguese
Point da Bio created this cartoon summary of the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize winners:
A Daft Look at Leadership Style
The Daft (Professor Richard. L. Daft of Vanderbilt University) celebration continues. Today, a deft Daft look at leadership: “Leadership Style,” R.L. Daft, International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Stuart Clegg and James Bailey, eds., Sage Publications, 2008.
The Nicolaides twist on random promotion
Phedon Nicolaides, professor at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands, proposes [in an essay in the Cyprus Mail] a twist on the Ig-Nobel-Prize-winning method of promoting people randomly in an organization: In September 2010 three Italian scientists won the infamous Ig Nobel prize in the category of management…. [Their solution, based on […]