If you want to take a break from the politically correct way we talk about attitudes and behaviors visit the web site www.darwinawards.com
. Here you'll find tales of aberrant, careless, stupid, reckless, arrogant, bizarre and often-fatal behavior. Plenty of fodder for your safety newsletters, bulletin boards or meetings - don't try these tricks at work or at home.
But be forewarned: this site points more fingers than Duke's student section at opponents on the foul line, ridiculing accident victims as fools, morons, idiots and "population control volunteers."
It's a site that scours the news for stories that live up to Ben Franklin's words: "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." Or as one site visitor put it: "The tree of life is self-pruning."
In this edition of ISHN's e-newsletter, we let the facts speak for themselves to learn lessons from absent-minded thinking. But here's the scary part: human nature being the universal condition it is, don't rush to judgment. It's not a stretch imagining yourself suffering such brain cramps. Well, except for maybe dancing with an ostrich, but more on that later...