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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.

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Animals Have Personalities? No WAY!

Animal Person

The husband and I took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) a couple of months ago and received the most unremarkable results. The personality characteristics we were both deemed to have can all be found by observation as well as a 500+ question test. Not a great quality, but dreadfully effective.

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How healthy is your office?

Sales and Marketing Management

In her book, Anthes writes at length about the Well Living Lab, a 7,500 square-foot office space built specifically to conduct research on how office conditions impact employee performance. Researchers found that daylight and window views boost employees’ working memory, but have no effect on their ability to switch effectively between tasks.

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

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And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** His seminal article, “Bird-Window Collisions,” based on dissertation research finished in 1979, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal until 1989.