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By Gerrit Van Wyk. A Philosopher’s Stone The way you imagine the world around us looks like and works determines what you can know about it, and in turn how you go about gathering that knowledge....
By Gerrit Van Wyk. “Health” is complex. We talk a lot about “health” without knowing or agreeing on what it is. There is “health” care, restoring “health”, “health” providers, and so on, but...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Words of wisdom from an ex-British Columbia premier. Glen Clark was a National Democratic Party (NDP) premier of British Columbia in Canada during the 1990’s, and spent the past 10 years...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Publish or perish. A system and a mess. A recent publication by Park, Leahey, and Funk in Nature shows innovation is dying. Innovation and novelty require connecting different areas...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. All-star teams are losing teams. Henley Management College as it was known then, is located on Greenlands, a picturesque estate on the bank of the Thames River. It’s here that Meredith...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. About pigs and paradoxes. Jerry Harvey tells the story of a Texas family who were playing games one day, until someone suggested they take an 80 km trip to Abilene for supper. Everyone...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. A riddle wrapped in an enigma. During a radio broadcast in 1939, Winston Churchill said Russia’s actions is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key....
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Fiddling while Rome burns. The phrase fiddling while Rome burns comes from a story about Emperor Nero played the fiddle while watching Rome burn in 64 CE. The meaning it took is doing...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Health insurance is a bust. People started insuring themselves against the risk of a loss thousands of years before the Christian Era. Basically, some of us club together and provide...
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Look who’s back. Many believe the training, organization, and staff structure of the German army at the beginning of World War 2 was second to none, as its early successes showed....