A blur can contain and provide detailed, discriminable information. One need not stop and smell the flowers to recognize which flowers are zipping across one’s field of vision. This book helps decipher the bits of light: A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers At Full Speed, Chris Helzer, Prairieecologist.com, 2019. The author explains: “What good is a […]
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Leadership and Gardening – an update
Following on from our Improbable note about Leadership via Gardening, may we also draw attention to the work of Dr. Thorsten Grahn (of Regent University, Virginia Beach, US) who not only considers the analogies between gardening and organizational leadership but is also one of the very few organizational observers to have examined the leadership implications […]
Guéguen, Now with Flowers
Nicholas Guéguen, of whom we have written again and again, is back, now bearing on flowers: “‘Say it … Near the Flower Shop’: Further Evidence of the Effect of Flowers on Mating,” Nicolas Guéguen, Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 152, no. 5, 2012, pp. 529-532. “For millennia, flowers have been used to convey romance. In […]
Flowers: But are they worth it?
“For millennia flowers have been used to convey romance, yet their effect on human romantic behavior has not been explicitly tested.” This lacuna in the literature has recently been filled, or, at the very least substantially occluded, by Professor Nicolas Guéguen of the Université de Bretagne-Sud, France (see: Improbable Research, passim [1] [2] [3] &etc) […]