Everyday Nature: How I Came To Love House Centipedes. Centipede by Flickr user Rob Swatski via a Creative Commons Sharealike license. Smart nature straight to your inbox every week. Iâve been called a lot of strange things in my life, but I never thought I could be called a nematode-lover.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In behavioral finance, the ostrich effect is the attempt made by investors to avoid negative financial information. The name comes from the common (but false) legend that ostriches bury their heads in the sand to avoid danger.
Light, But Not Delicate. The lighter a structure launching into air, the better. That's one of the reasons why ostriches can't fly--because their bones are solid instead of hollow. It's also one of the reasons why researchers at HRL Laboratories created the lightest metal known to man.