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	Frogs in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frogs are also used as symbols of disgust due to their moist skin that can be perceived as slimey, and the sometimes repugnant secretions, especially of toads.
		To the Egyptians, the frog was a symbol of life and fertility, since millions of them were born after the annual inundation of the Nile, which brought fertility to the otherwise barren lands.
		Heget was usually depicted as a frog, or a woman with a frog's head, or more rarely as a frog on the end of a phallus to explicitly indicate her association with fertility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frogs_in_popular_culture (1664 words)

	THE LEGEND OF THE BOILING FROG IS JUST A LEGEND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Now you surely have heard the story of the boiling frog that is often told by consultants or activists: If you put a frog in boiling water, he will try to escape.
		If you put him in cold water and heat it gradually, the frog will remain in place until he's boiled, because that's the lesson, to him (and consequently to us) gradual change is not perceivable.
		But with a real frog in real water, my bet is that when it began to get uncomfortable the frog would jump out if it could, long before the water started to boil.
	www.uga.edu /srel/ecoview11-18-02.htm (679 words)

	The case of the Boiling Frog.
		The water heated so slowly that the frog didn’t notice until it was too late to jump out of the water that was nearing the boiling point.
		The frog’s ability to adapt to the slowly increasing temperature of the water was not a good thing for him.
		If the frog had taken note of the changing temperature of the world in which he swam and developed a game plan, he would have jumped out of the pot.
	www.wolverton-mountain.com /articles/boilingfrog.htm (731 words)

	Boiling Frog
		The second part of the experiment is to put the same frog into a pot of cold water which has a slow flame burning underneath.
		The frog story is a cautionary tale, and one that modern people should pay heed to.
		The difference between us and the frog is that we ourselves, our own society and culture, the capitalist industrial growth economy in all its manifestations around the world, are the ones turning up the heat, and we are the only ones who can turn it down.
	www.web.net /~boilingfrog/why.html (554 words)

	Ministry of Propaganda - 12/Jun/2006: "Recent Reading: boiling a frog"
		In this case that's boiling a frog by Christopher Brookmyre.
		Theoretically, this means that if you were to put a frog in a pan of cold water, then turn up the heat gradually enough, you could cook the poor creature to death before it realised it was in danger.
		The boiling a frog metaphor is an urban myth, as explained by Whit Gibbons of the University of Georgia or also in Fast Company more than 10 years ago.
	www.ministryofpropaganda.co.uk /2006propaganda/20060612-boiling.shtml (477 words)

	One Mind One Voice - The Boiling Frog
		As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
		A contrary example, an example of the smiling boiled frog, is that of a young couple who gradually use their good credit to buy and borrow themselves into catastrophic debt.
		As the water in the cauldron slowly heats, the frog feels nothing but a pleasant warmth, and indeed that's all there is to feel.
	www.onemindonevoice.org /ow/boilingfrog.html (5641 words)

	The Boiling Frog Syndrome
		Or in terms of the Boiling Frog Syndrome, the frog is in the pot, and the temperature of the water has begun, very slowly, to rise.
		The frog that would have jumped out long ago, had he been thrown in abruptly, is still accommodating these slow increases in temperature.
		The Boiling Frog Syndrome, I submit, is more than simply a warning about the true nature of inflation and its effects on long-term financial planning (although it serves its purpose there quite well).
	www.lewrockwell.com /yates/yates38.html (2281 words)

	Multihull Maven
		Boiling Frog (a registered trademark of Milford Haven Multihulls Ltd, UK) was formed in 2004 by Martin Paine to produce a new range of cruising multihulls designed by John Shuttleworth.
		Most of the new line is being [2004] upgraded and modified by John Shuttleworth for Boiling Frog from existing models.
		There is also a newly commissioned design, exclusive to Boiling Frog, the Eleri 1400 (14 m/46 ft).
	www.multihull-maven.com /Yards/Boiling_Frog (182 words)

	Boiling frog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The boiling frog story states that a frog can be boiled alive if the water is heated slowly enough—it is said that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will never jump out.
		In the boiling-frog allegory, the frog represents the citizenry, whilst the gradual heating of the water represents the incremental encroachment of government.)
		In the UK railway industry, "boiling frog syndrome" has been adopted as shorthand for the unnoticed escalation in infrastructure and maintenance costs under Railtrack and subsequently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boiling_frog (328 words)

	Watch out for the Boiling Frog Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		”The Boiling Frog Syndrome” describes the patterns of behaviour in big organisations where the information channels do not work or where the structures are rigid and bureaucratic.
		Simply because the frog’s warning system is set to react to strong and sudden changes, but not to slow and gradual ones.
		Frogs are quite nice animals and they deserve a better fate than participating in a business economics experiment.
	www.energyforum.net /feature/feat72.shtml (862 words)

	Change: The buzzword for firms to succeed
		But if CEOs follow conventional wisdom, chances are that they are leading their companies into a trap known as the "boiling frog" syndrome.
		Welch took over at a time when the company's order backlogs would continue to produce a rich stream of revenues for several years to come, but they obscured the mounting difficulties GE was experiencing in winning new orders for steam turbines and nuclear power equipment.
		In short, GE was in danger of falling into the classic boiling frog syndrome.
	www.rediff.com /money/2006/sep/07guest.htm (651 words)

	UNCoRRELATED: Boiling Frogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An early political lesson was taught to me with the parable of the boiled frog.
		Through a frog into boiling water and he'll jump out lickety-split, but put the frog into cold water and gradually turn up the heat, and the frog will remain quiesant until cooked.
		It's not surprising when you're as heavily invested as the European establishment is in an absurd equivalence between a nuclear madman who thinks he's the warm-up act for the Twelfth Imam and the fellows building the Israeli security fence that you lose all sense of proportion when it comes to your own backyard, too.
	www.uncorrelated.com /2006/02/boiling_frogs.html (487 words)

	Save the Frog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But if you take the frog and put him in a pot of cold water, and gradually turn up the heat, little by little over a long period of time, the frog’s body will adjust to the incremental increases of heat and eventually boil to death.
		The U.S. economy is like a frog in a pot of boiling water and he can’t jump out to save himself.
		If the frog was touching the bottom, the bottom would heat up much faster than the water, destroying the gradualness as well as the analogy.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1432173/posts (2412 words)

	The Boiling Frog
		Systems thinkers have given us a useful metaphor for a certain kind of human behaviour in the phenomenon of the boiled frog.
		As the water gradually hearts up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
		As the water in the cauldron slowly heats, the frog fells nothing but a pleasant warmth, and indeed that's all there is to feel.
	www.davidsheen.com /b/b2.htm (2193 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Boiling frog syndrome, and bouncebackability of inflation
		Closer home, the `boiling frog syndrome' may describe the current food situation, because the phrase means "having inadequate contingency plans, or being insufficiently reactive to change." But why bring in the poor frog?
		Dent explains: "Although a frog placed in hot water will leap out, one placed in cold water which is then gradually heated is said to be unable to detect the slow, incremental rise in temperature: failing to react, it boils to death." So too...
		Well, before the frogs goes under, catch up with Brazilian cut (in boyshorts) and chuddies (`an alteration of the word churdiars'?) in `the language of the undergarment'; and face a chapter on `the political animal,' where `hyenas feast on bill' and the imagery of the dog spans continents.
	www.blonnet.com /2006/06/26/stories/2006062602091800.htm (549 words)

	Boiled Frogs
		The frog has a homeostatic mechanism that reacts to abrupt changes in temperature by causing the frog to jump.
		I once had a frog who was found dead on a hot glass surface, next to some cold water he had been happily sitting in an hour before.
		Of course, the frogs she uses are already dead and butchered, so we're unable to repeat the experiment for our own edification.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?BoiledFrogs (982 words)

	Next Time, What Say We Boil a Consultant
		The frog, because of the incremental change in temperature, will not notice that it is slowly being boiled.
		If a frog had a means of getting out, it certainly would get out.
		We then placed Frog B into a pot of lukewarm water and applied moderate heat.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/01/frog.html (419 words)

	frog in boiling water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I'm sure most of you have heard the old "frog in boiling water" thing.
		For those who haven't, it goes like this: if you put a frog in cold water, and very slowly turn up the heat, it will happily sit there until it boils to death; whereas if you throw a frog into boiling water, or turn up the heat too fast, it will jump out.
		The frog is annoyed, and the faster they turn up the heat (with their intimidation tactics) the MORE annoyed it gets.
	www.worldnewsstand.net /03/wakeup/6-12.htm (529 words)

	Pierre's Web: Boiling a Frog
		Reminds me of the story about boiling a frog: if you drop a live frog in boiling water, it will leap out immediately.
		But if you drop a frog in tepid water and gradually turn up the heat, it won't notice and will eventually be frog soup.
		I agree with Pierre about the boiling frog situation described in Bruce Schneier's news.com editorial....
	pierre.typepad.com /pierre/2004/01/boiling_a_frog.html (818 words)

	Boiling A Frog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This idea is based on the old story that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water he will jump out.
		The frog has no choice but to be scalded, or to boil to death.
		While I am not into boiling frogs or putting to the test the age-old legend it can be said that it is obvious that we have little difficulty recognizing immediate threats.
	www.clydelewis.com /dis/boiling/boiling.htm (3053 words)

	Liberal Comment: America and the Boiling Frog Syndrome
		But if you throw a frog into a pot of cold water and bring it gradually to the boil, the frog will sit in the pot until it dies.
		Controlling the flow of information is an important first step in a long-term gameplan that the Republican elites have to slowly turn this nation into a boiling pot where we are all frogs.
		While the press is being brought into line, there is always the risk that the American people will decide they've had enough and do something outrageous like exercise their freedom to throw the elites out of office.
	www.liberalcomment.com /2006/06/america-and-boiling-frog-syndrome.html (1432 words)

	Boiling Frog
		Boiling frog promotes and distributes activist and independent media.
		In the works is the procurement of space to offer Screaming Media every day of the week, as well as a resource centre, and activist indy media work space.
		However, boiling frog currently exists hand to mouth and hasn’t the $ to rent space.
	www.web.net /~boilingfrog/smedia.html (270 words)

	1996_09 \| Physicians Must Create Their Own HMOs
		But if you take the same frog, place it in lukewarm water, place that water over a stove and gradually turn up the heat, the frog's system will adjust to the change and eventually the frog will boil without trying to escape.
		The rise of HMOs has been and continues to be rapid, yet their triumph is not so sudden as to avoid the "boiling frog" syndrome.
		The frog is immersed, and the water is very hot indeed.
	www.managedcaremag.com /archives/9609/MC9609.frog.shtml (946 words)

	True Islam Hijacked. Ramadan, the Fasting Month for the Muslims ...
		The Boiling Frog Syndrome explains how the “Muslim” masses have come to accept breaches of the Quranic teachings that would have provoked questioning and confrontation during the time of Prophet Muhammad.
		The frog that would have jumped out long ago if he were thrown in abruptly is still accommodating these slow increases in temperature.
		The Boiling Frog Syndrome is a warning for the true and caring Muslims to jump out of the pot and return to the basis of our great religion, the Quran.
	www.submission.org /SP/Sep04true.html (620 words)

	ConservativeTruth.org: How to Boil a Live Frog - Tom Barrett, 08-25-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the experiment a frog was dropped into a pot of hot (not boiling) water.
		The frog became accustomed to the increased temperature as it was raised little by little.
		Before long the temperature was so high that the frog was unable to jump out of the pot, and it died.
	www.conservativetruth.org /archives/tombarrett/08-25-01.shtml (1860 words)

	FPA Journal - Beyond Compliance and Boiling Frogs
		But if you drop a frog into cold water and gradually heat it up to boiling, it will doze off, remaining in the water until cooked.
		While further research casts doubt upon the biological accuracy of this account of frog behavior, the metaphor is useful in understanding these research findings.
		To not heighten in the public eye the perception that professional financial planning practitioners adhere, in word and deed, to the highest standard of ethical conduct is a barrier to establishing justifiable relationships of trust.
	www.fpanet.org /journal/articles/2006_Issues/jfp0206-art2.cfm (1500 words)

	World Economic Forum warned about ‘boiling frog’ syndrome
		Scientific research has discovered that frogs cannot perceive an increase in surrounding water temperature if the water is heated gently so that the increase is slow and steady.
		Eventually the frog dies, still unaware of the threat it faces.
		MarketWatch has reported that a panel of experts at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos have warned the organisation that ‘international corporations suffer from boiling frog syndrome and are ‘in denial about the daunting array of risks they face, including terrorism, disease pandemics, climate change and a potential Chinese economic slowdown’.
	www.continuitycentral.com /news01723.htm (253 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the boiling frog experiment it is observed that if a frog is thrown into a pot of boiling water it will instantly jump out of the water.
		This response is compared with throwing the frog into a pot of warm water, where it is observed to be comfortable enough to stay in the pot and not jump out.
		Like the frog experiment the smoothing of oil prices helped and is continuing to help sustain economic growth and keep people happy about the growth in their wealth.
	www.wondu.com /Newsletter_3_2_2002.htm (5255 words)

	Gates of Vienna: Boiling the Frog
		There is an old chestnut about how to boil a frog: you don’t drop him into boiling water, because he’ll hop right out.
		The frog never notices the incremental changes in temperature, and eventually boils without realizing what is happening.
		The frog’s eyes are a little bloodshot and steam is rising from him.
	gatesofvienna.blogspot.com /2005/06/boiling-frog.html (1444 words)

	can you really boil a frog? - Amidst a tangled web
		You may have heard the story about the frog, often used to illustrate the powerful affects little things can have in our lives.
		As the story goes, if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will jump right.
		However, if you put a frog in a pot of lukewarm water and slowly turn it up until it starts to boil, the frog will happily remain in his little hot tub until he is cooked.
	dan.hersam.com /archives/2006/08/02/can-you-really-boil-a-frog (204 words)

	Boiling frogs and boiler rooms
		I am told that boiling a frog is easy.
		The frog, being coldblooded, has no reference for what its body temperature should be and heats up along with the water until it is boiled.
		When you're tactically driven, you don't notice that your goose (or frog) is in the process of being cooked.
	www.networkworld.com /archive/1999b/0510gibbs.html (760 words)

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