Decision/Event Tree: The Bellagio’s Door or the Senate’s Door?

LET’S TAKE a review of another problem-solving tool. For decades, dynamic companies use simple techniques like the Decision/Event Tree to define and eliminate issues that prevent them from earning a decent profit. In case of small business owners, they would go off into their factory huts and torture their poor workers to solve problems using a popular technique called trial-and-error, which as ...

15 fantastic data visualisations

Brian Suda, software developer, informatician and author of A Practical Guide to Designing with Data, presents some of the best and most beautiful visualisations on the web that are based on time, geography, sound data and more

The more you know about colubrid snakes, the better a person you are

A Smyth's water snake (Grayia smythii), photographed in the Congo. Image courtesy Kate Jackson. [More]

What Happened to Baby Annie? - New York Times

New York Times

What Happened to Baby Annie? New York Times There is even an elaborate diagram of a family tree that outlines both parents' family history — including births, deaths and medical records — going back four generations. Mr. Chu said he had gathered “substantial evidence to suggest that there are ... and more »

The more you know about colubrid snakes, the better a person you are - Scientific American (blog)

Scientific American (blog)

The more you know about colubrid snakes, the better a person you are Scientific American (blog) It's one of eight or so Ahaetulla species, often known as Asian vine snakes, tree snakes or, unfortunately, as whip snakes*. They're found throughout India, south-east Asia and on various Pacific islands. They're colubrine colubrids, found in some ...