10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2014
New studies find that: when birds migrate from the Arctic to South America, fragments of mosses, fungi, and other “diaspores” hitch a ride (and a similar phenomenon may have spread acacia trees from Hawaii to an island in the Indian Ocean); caterpillars which feed on many different types of plants are more attractive meals for birds than caterpillars (..)
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. And if you’re lucky enough to be on the island of Hawaii next weekend (Sept. Take birds.
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Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
He offered two rewards for consideration: (A) $5,000 in cash or (B) a trip to Hawaii (of equal value to the cash). Then he asked two different questions of them: Which reward would you prefer: the cash or the trip to Hawaii? Hawaii is a reward they’ll remember forever. Hawaii is a reward they’ll remember forever.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2018
It contains numerous citations to the literature, as the process must be based on the best available science. The number of wild geese has increased dramatically: in 1960, there were an estimated 30 birds on a single island, Hawaii, but the current estimate is 2,855 on Kauai, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
In Hawaii I stood on a beach as albatrosses fledged and Tiger Sharks prowled for the less successful ones. There is no feeling in the world like knowing your helping something you care about, whether its sharks or puffins, protecting forests or reefs, advancing science or communities. Amazing stuff. I still have that marker.
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
A highly imprecise reward is a day at the spa or a dinner for two or a trip to Hawaii. In a terrific paper on the subject, Scott Jeffrey compared the motivational qualities of two similar rewards – a trip to Hawaii and a $5,000 trip to Hawaii. Incentives. Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
This is probably one of the reasons Daniel Lewis,the author,turned from writing a popular biography to a history of ornithology as a science and the ornithologist as a profession. Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology and Chief Curator of Manuscripts at The Huntington Library in California.
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