He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]

The substantia innominata of the BF is reported to project to the SWS-promoting parvicellular area of the reticular nucleus (also called the parafacial zone) [38, 39 ].

Just as an acorn has the telos or entelechial potential to become an oak, so do ideas contain the seeds of their own transformation. Follow the logical or poetic implications of even the noblest idea and you are likely to find it becoming rotten with perfection. This is nicely illustrated in Cat's Cradle [sic: Cat's in the Cradle], a song written by Burke's grandson, Harry Chapin. It is a song, says Stan Lindsay (1998), about entelechial potential, about a father who has made the idea of career more important than family. But one need not make moral judgments in doing entelechial analysis.

The New Caledonian crow is known for creating tools from plant material to capture prey hiding in cracks and crevices.