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Pigeons have tiny compasses in their heads

10,000 Birds

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them. However, how the brain receives and interprets magnetic field information is unknown.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly. ” Her book is both informative and fun, a good read. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.

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The Race for AI-Driven Sales Success Starts Now

Sales and Marketing Management

At its most basic level, AI is the branch of computer science that deals with making computers behave like humans. One factor is the availability of data and the evolution of technologies that make it easier to harmonize information and deliver insight. So, what is AI? Audio processing and computer vision allows AI to sense.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

10,000 Birds

In order to test the mechanism, we used inhibitors of both pathways to replicate in chicken the ancestral amniote expression. Skeletal phenotypes from both types of experiments had premaxillae that clustered geometrically with ancestral fossil forms instead of beaked birds. See: Four Wings Good Two Wings Better?

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How to Make a Remote Sale

Sales and Marketing Management

Is the information you need to share incredibly complex or relatively simple? . There is a sweet spot of extremely effective communication methods that shifts depending on the complexity of information being shared. It doesn’t need a long, meandering discussion about world politics, science, or global markets. Be a human first.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. The thousands of hours of observations that have been added up over the years would not have been possible without the help of the many volunteers and assistants who have offered their time and energy in the cause of science and conservation.

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Gaining executive access: what messaging approach wins?

Sales and Marketing Management

In a simulation-based test scenario, the executives were told they were reading an email from an outside vendor sales rep they didn’t know and had never met with before. This approach introduces an unconsidered or underappreciated need to the executive, based on the seller’s experience with other customers.