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Smart and Getting Smarter

10,000 Birds

This all happened as I was suffering from the photographic affliction known as “light denial,” where I’m convinced there is still some light but sadly the day has ended and darkness reigns. Still it is always nice to add to the evidence of animal intellect.

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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

Critter News

Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. But the animals suffering behind closed doors at AIIMS must endure this nightmare every day."

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Are Your Emotional Intelligence Assessments Results Right?

SalesFuel

Asking the top candidates to take tests can improve this process. Testing to Predict Job Performance To understand how tests can help in hiring, it’s important to know employers’ top priorities for next year. Skills A skills test will reveal where the candidate will do well, whether it's coding or sales.

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Lisbon’s Lezirias in Winter

10,000 Birds

They have many different varieties, and I selflessly tasted/tested a dozen different varieties. The unsponsored suffering I must endure for this blog… Those pastries are amazing, but if you are a bit peckish: at the Casa they serve a good lunch too. Leave the area through the gate again and turn right towards Porto Alto.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect as it Relates to Birding

10,000 Birds

The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

10,000 Birds

The eBird author of the entry on the Common Redpoll apparently suffers from winter depression, asking readers to “listen for their [the redpolls] chattering calls ringing through the desolate winter landscape” No winter wonderland for this depressed writer.

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Powder Puff, RIP, and More

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And if he looked fine he wouldn't have been tested. And if he didn't look fine and was tested he probably would have been euthanized. So his suffering was basically prolonged because he looked good on that one day, and because testing is done only if there are symptoms. Hmm--that's an interesting one.