Archive for April, 2007
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Processionary Caterpillars & Ants
The French naturalist, Jean-Henri Fabre, reported of an experiment with a determined little creature known as the processionary caterpillar. These hairy caterpillars live in communal webs and march in a long procession of columns to their food source, one leading, and the others following with their head snuggly fitted against the rear extremity of its [...]
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
The Best Laid Plans
A misquote of the poem “To a Mouse†by Robert Burns suggests: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray,†and serves as caution that life may very well supply us with experiences beyond our wildest imagination.
For most, as we journey down the road of life, our dreams often turn out quite [...]
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Seeing Ourselves As Others See Us
One Sunday while sitting behind a young lady in the church, the Scottish Poet Robert Burns, noticed a head louse roaming around and through the bows and ribbons of the unsuspecting woman’s hat. Using his insight and understanding of human nature Burns wrote the poem “To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet, [...]
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Ends Do Not Justify the Means
Not long ago newspapers reported that a CEO had have been charged in a criminal complaint with fraudulently backdating stock options along with the awarding of options to nonexistent employees for future transfer to himself and his friends.
Of this incident Robert Reich reported that “SEC commissioner, Paul Atkins, argued in a recent speech that [...]
