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 ...

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 ...

Charles Addams: Master of black humour - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Charles Addams: Master of black humour Telegraph.co.uk An excellent new book called The Addams Family: An Evilution charts the development of his fictional oddball family, who have appeared in cartoons, a long-running television series, a cartoon show and a set of Hollywood movies. The recent Addams Family ... and more »