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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke (author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many others)
    Until you get close, briar patches look like solid masses of leaves, stems, and thorns. Brer Rabbit and other clever folks know that once you're inside, a briar patch is really a comfortable maze. The leaves, stems, and thorns hide clear paths, shady nooks, and hidden treasures. They also deter those who are too big (like Brer Bear) or cocky (like Brer Fox).
    Courses, college, and life are briar patches. Their hidden treasures are technologies: ways of thinking and doing. Until you get inside adn poke around, they seem scary. It's easy to stay outside, put off by what seems like magic, while wily old Brer Rabbit and anyone else who is willing to explore romps inside.
    I am comfortable in the briar patch I work in, and I hope you will like it, too. This site is for people who want to poke around in some mazes, explore some technologies, perhaps learn some magic. Those who do will find the paths that make a briar patch home.
    Some of the mazes I work in are technologies called statistics, operations management, the economics of crime, and two especially for freshmen: "Introduction to College Life" and "Writing".

    Explore! Poke around! Enjoy!



          I am George D. Brower, M.B.A., Ph.D.
          Professor of Economics and Business
          Comenius Hall Room 212
          Moravian College
          1200 Main Street
          Bethlehem. PA 18018-6650
          USA

          Phone: 610- 861-1379
          E-mail: browerg at moravian dot edu


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Adkins, Jan (1973) Toolchest: A Primer of Woodcraft. New York: Walker and Company, p.4.

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This page was last updated August 25, 2006

Ver. 5 November 17, 2005; Ver. 4 June 26, 2000; Ver. 3 June 12, 1999;
Ver. 2 Spring 1996; Ver. 1 Fall 1994