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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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For Coal T**s , resident birds were found to be slimmer than transients, which makes sense as they have better knowledge of the available resources and thus less volatility in their food supply (and of course slimmer birds are better at not being eaten themselves). In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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The Race for AI-Driven Sales Success Starts Now

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At its most basic level, AI is the branch of computer science that deals with making computers behave like humans. In one case study, a sales group tested an AI-driven sales technology that recommended accounts, contacts and opportunities to pursue, products to focus on during sales calls and messages tailored to buyers.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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The Azure-winged Magpie seems to be a favorite subject of intelligence tests – resulting in papers with fancy titles such as “Performance of Azure-winged magpies in Aesop’s fable paradigm” “We are not only ornithologists, we also know about classical culture” Wow. But I may well be wrong.

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On the threshold of flight

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I speak of flight, of course. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. A better understanding of bird origins requires multifaceted and integrative approaches, yet fossils necessarily provide the final test of any evolutionary model. This is a key feature of birds. Varricchio.

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Technically, I Graduated

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Major universities are offering world-class courses to those who want to simply sign in, view or listen in. Three things you need to know, before we get into courses: Most are free! The Science of Superheroes:  These characters are used to teach physics. Can’t remember attending or reading about a poetry slam recently.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.

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