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  2. Fish! Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    "Fish!" logo used by ChartHouse Learning. The Fish! Philosophy (styled FISH! Philosophy), modeled after the Pike Place Fish Market, is a business technique that is aimed at creating happy individuals in the workplace. John Christensen created this philosophy in 1998 to improve organizational culture. The central four ideas are: "play", "be ...

  3. Salmon of Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    The Salmon story figures prominently in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which recounts the early adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the story, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom (an Tobar Segais) from nine hazel trees that surrounded the well. By this act, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge.

  4. Robinson Crusoe - Wikipedia

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    Robinson Crusoe [a] (/ ˈ k r uː s oʊ / KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad ...

  5. Human uses of fish - Wikipedia

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    Fish play symbolic roles in religion, mythology, folklore, and fairy tale, where stories about fish have been told in cultures around the world for thousands of years. Fish have similarly been depicted in art, literature, film, and music in many cultures. Academic study of fish in culture is called ethnoichthyology. Both academically and in ...

  6. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of ...

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    [1] He writes that Godfrey-Smith handles both biology and philosophy "profoundly but without ever talking down to his audience." [1] Drake Baer in New York Magazine compares octopuses and philosophers: "They are both given to exploring their worlds, they both have a reputation for peculiarity, they both handle multiple subjects with ease."

  7. Parable of the Sunfish - Wikipedia

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    The student replies with, in turn, the common name of the fish, a brief summary of the species, and a four-page essay on the species. Agassiz finally tells the student to "look at the fish" and "[a]t the end of three weeks the fish was in an advanced state of decomposition, but the student knew something about it."

  8. Talk:Fish! Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    The FISH! Philosophy is not a "workplace management system" and has never been promoted as such by ChartHouse Learning. I also gave credit to ChartHouse Learning for creating the philosophy. John Christensen got the idea of making a film, but a number of people helped develop the philosophy, video, etc. This gives them proper credit.

  9. Philosophie zoologique - Wikipedia

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    Lamarck used the blind mole rat (Spalax) as an example of the loss of function through disuse.The animal's tiny eyes are completely covered by a layer of skin. In the Philosophie zoologique, Lamarck proposed that species could acquire new characteristics from influences in their environment, in two rules that he named as laws.