Pioneers Get Arrows in their Backs

While engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs leap enthusiastically into paths of new discovery and exploration, those paths are littered with the bodies of wise, capable, innovative, and ambitious individuals.  That is, it is well established that blazing a path...

The Birds and the Bees

Among CCCC’s educational endeavors, the ‘Birds and Bees’ presentation attempts to explain why we humans behave the strange way we do, which to a great extent, seems not understandable.  Why do nations so furiously wage together?  Why do men continue to abuse women? ...

History Repeats Itself

The current economic collapse due to covid-19 shows many parallels with the economic collapse in 2008 called the Great Recession.  Namely, (1) the signs were there but the experts ignored them; (2) people questioned the government’s wisdom in supporting the fat cats...

The Nine-Day Week

What if there was a simple way to make the work scheduling task easier and at the same time reduce human stress in the workplace?  The answer is that there is, and it would probably be good for us all. The time that humans use, namely the length of time of a day and...

It all Begins with TP53

Virtually all conflictive human endeavors, including business concerns, can be explained by the simple decision between the philosophies of: Is this action about me or is this action about us?  Did you know that such a choice has a beginning within the human cell at a...

Why you should not Interview Job Candidates

The moment you interview an employment candidate, your emotions come into play.  The fact is that in our human (and other animal) systems, emotions trump logic.  Such an emotional foray during recruiting often has us select individuals for emotional rather than...