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Key Benefits of Talent Assessment for Modern Workplaces

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These tools go beyond experience and titles. That matters because it helps hiring managers make fairer, clearer comparisons between candidates. A well-run hiring experience can leave a lasting impression, even on those who are not ultimately selected. Reduces Hiring Costs Bad hires are expensive.

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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

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Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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birders are rare, so the recent release of a “ National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons ” is notable. The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. Paul, MN 55108.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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Similar comparisons can be made with other bird features such as how their hips work. So this new research is very interesting, and we applaud the scientists for their work. These researchers carried out two different major efforts that in combination advance our understanding of the evolution of the bird beak.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Comparisons of Similar Species, the last section in each Account, is the one most likely to be of interest to the experienced birder. Gladwell is a good read, but not credible scientific support.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). You’re right, it is horrible!

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. As I’ve noted elsewhere, it was really Darwin’s experiences on the Falklands that first congealed many of his evolutionary insights. My research in the Congo supports this idea. The paper is in Natrure Scientific Reports.

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