I’ve done a post on this subject before. Although some would like for the subject to go away, it obviously isn’t. If anything, it’s receiving more attention than ever.

“Better brush up on my field work. Better brush up on my field work. Gonna get my fingers dirty.” So begins a song about research into unscrambling the code of the world’s creation. Listen to the song as performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby about the importance of “field work” in our society.

Molly DiBianca has had a couple of posts recently on service animals in the workplace. (Click here and here.) That, of course, reminded me of the Animal Employment Protection Act.

Two recent events attracted much attention: a homemade helium balloon supposedly carrying a six-year-old boy and a Northwest plane that traveled 150 miles past where it was supposed to land and lost contact with air traffic control for over an hour. The balloon incident was a hoax. The plane incident is perhaps still somewhat of a mystery.

Not everyone thinks that innovation and progress are our saviors. Where have innovation and progress really led us? Listen and learn.

If you don’t regularly read the Eclecticity blog, you should. Sometimes it’s kind of out there. Sometimes it’s way out there. No matter. The mind of E is full of thoughts worth partaking of.

Execupundit has a post with punch about how people, particularly executives, judge one of their own vs. one who’s on the outside. Michael Wade says one of the things I was trying to say in my post titled Tale of Two Cities but says it much better.

Elbert Hubbard was an American publisher, artist, writer and philosopher. The following quote was true for the workplace when he said it in the 19th century, and I believe it is still true today.

I’ve written frequently about The Man Gene and its role in causing legal problems in the workplace. I’ve written less frequently about religion (e.g., here and here), trying to draw lessons that could apply to the world of work generally. I will now attempt the death-defying feat of writing about both.

Cultural Offering provides four cartoonish posts that hold a lot of truth, as well as humor. (Click here, here, here and here.)