Erinaceous pertaining to the hedgehog family of the nature of a hedgehog.

A hedgehog?

Hedgehogs.

Yes, a small hedgehog.

Fighting Hedgehogs

These are the hedgehogs.

And he gave Gritli a hedgehog.

The hedgehog, which you think is a truffle.

Like a hill and black all over. Gritli said he was a hedgehoggiant.

Then she went into the forest with the tall man.

Based on a child's drawing you believe the hedgehogs to be truffles.

The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously distinguished between two styles of thinking, which he identified with the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog is captivated by a single big idea, which he applies unremittingly.

If you are like 98 percent of other people, you will identify the round, amoeboid shape as Bouba, and the sharp, spiky one as Kiki.

We can see this process in sharp relief when, following the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, we classify experts as hedgehogs or foxes. Hedgehogs are big idea thinkers in love with grand theories libertarianism, Marxism, environmentalism, etc.

Scholars who are able to navigate from one explanatory framework to another as circumstances require are more likely to point us in the right direction. The world needs fewer hedgehogs and more foxes.

A world fit for mammals. From tiny shrews came tenrecs, accustomed to the dark.

You mean, Nudges. Nudges.

Help me get 'em in.

All were wounded with bayonets.

But they don t know when to slam the mental brakes by making concessions to other points of view. They take their theories too seriously.

Thorn.

Stick it?

I could keep a much better eye on Helen if I'd had a little nip.

The bayonet?

Assassins!

Excitement.

Spear! Go ahead and spear!

Killed?

Bayonet.

Spurs.

I received a bayonet wound! Stayed right up at the front!

Cold Pricklies

It's hot.

Had movement.

Fix bayonets!

Very sarcastic!

What an experience!

Bayonets.

Watch out for the thorns. (gasps)

Sticking it in?

How exciting!

Imagine your job as a media executive depends on expanding your viewing audience. Whom would you pick an expert who balances conflicting arguments and concludes that the likeliest outcome is more of the same, or an expert who gets viewers on the edge of their seats over radical Islamists seizing control and causing oil prices to soar?

Last picture, it's a tattoo, 2,000 years old tattoo.

He's coming into the stretch, the pressure's on and he knows.

Spike growth