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.
I jog by a pen of ostriches during my lunch hour and they look like pretty aggressive bastards to me-- not at all timid. They're always picking on each other. Ostriches lower their heads sometimes when they fight, but nobody would mistake that behavior for hiding in the sand or ignoring a problem.