Do Dogs Laugh?

February 8, 2010 at 7:45 am | In Lifescape | Leave a Comment
clipped from www.psychologytoday.com
    Research done by Patricia Simonet at Sierra Nevada College in
Lake Tahoe looked at laughter sounds in dogs. Simonet’s team investigated the question by standing in
parks with a parabolic microphone that allowed them to record the sounds that
dogs made while playing from a distance.
laughing dog
In describing the laughter sounds of dogs she says that, “To an untrained human
ear, it sounds much like a pant, ‘hhuh, hhuh.” When the recordings were analyzed
she found that that this exhalation bursts into a broader range of frequencies
than does regular dog panting. She confirmed the positive effects of this laugh
sound in an experiment on 15 puppies, which romped for joy simply upon hearing
the recorded canine laugh. More recently she was able to show that these same
sounds helped to calm dogs in an animal shelter.

How Earth really looks from a satellite image

February 8, 2010 at 7:40 am | In Lifescape | Leave a Comment
clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk
Earth

The real deal: How Earth really looks from a satellite image

Focus on UEO–’User Experience Optimization’ – Website User Experience – Entrepreneur.com

February 7, 2010 at 12:20 pm | In Afghanistan | Leave a Comment
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    • Focus on ‘User Experience Optimization’

      Driving traffic to your homepage is important, but making the destination worthwhile is vital.

    • There’s been an unhealthy shift in the business world toward trying to get people to visit websites versus providing users with a valuable experience once they get there. There’s no point in trying to increase your search engine results with the goal of increased traffic to your website if, when visitors arrive at your site, they are uninterested, uninformed or unmotivated.

      Is your homepage falling short? Here are some tips to help boost your homepage’s UEO.

      Why Am I Here?

    • Short and Sweet

    • Keep it Simple

    • Navigation With the Visitor In Mind

    • No Design for Design’s Sake

    • Bells and Whistles

    • Remember the purpose of your website–it’s a tool in your marketing arsenal. Increasing traffic to your website is important, but intriguing motivated visitors once they get there is much more so

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Craftsmanship – Principles of Successful Blogs #9

February 7, 2010 at 12:16 pm | In Afghanistan | Leave a Comment
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    • I remember sitting down at a conference with a number of bloggers who’d build great blogs to pick their brains and having the realisation that their blogs had not ‘just happened’ but that they’d really put time, energy and thought into shaping them over the years.

    • This ’shaping’ of their blogs happened on two levels – it happened on a daily basis in the posts that they wrote – but also over time as their blogs grew and matured.

    • Setting oneself the task of writing a series of posts ahead of time mean you need to consider what you’ll write about (in general terms) but knowing what topics you’ll be covering in the future means that your ideas begin to marinate ahead of time and that by the time you come to write your posts you’ve given the topics thought, you’ve got ideas on how to explore it on a deeper level and you’ve hopefully got some creative ides of how to introduce and explore the topic in a way that makes the post stand out a little.

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Seth’s Blog: The relentless search for

February 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm | In Afghanistan | Leave a Comment
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    • The relentless search for "tell me what to do"

      If you’ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.

      People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: "If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I’m safe."

      When asked, resist.

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Next time you sing out of tune, I’ll kill you. No, seriously. – Holy Kaw!

February 7, 2010 at 11:51 am | In Afghanistan | Leave a Comment

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World’s most invasive species

February 7, 2010 at 11:48 am | In Afghanistan | Leave a Comment
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Grass carp
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    • orld’s most invasive species
    • he environment.
    • Introduced to their new environment by well-intended humans, the world’s most invasive species have created an imbalance in the environment.

      Snakehead Fish

      Snakehead fish are a glutenous species that infests lakes or ponds, then devours everything they kind find in the waters. When they’re done, they can slither on their bellies for up to four days on land looking for another body of water.

      Asian Carp

      Imported to the U.S. to clear catfish ponds of algae, the Asian Carp multiplied, each growing up to a humongous 100 pounds taking over the waters.

      Burmese Python

      Authorities found a five foot long alligator in the belly of a Burmese Python, need there be any more reason to consider this snake an invasive specie?

      Full story at Webecoist.

    • Introduced to their new environment by well-intended humans, the world’s most invasive species have created an imbalance in the environment.

      Snakehead Fish

      Snakehead fish are a glutenous species that infests lakes or ponds, then devours everything they kind find in the waters. When they’re done, they can slither on their bellies for up to four days on land looking for another body of water.

      Asian Carp

      Imported to the U.S. to clear catfish ponds of algae, the Asian Carp multiplied, each growing up to a humongous 100 pounds taking over the waters.

      Burmese Python

      Authorities found a five foot long alligator in the belly of a Burmese Python, need there be any more reason to consider this snake an invasive specie?

      Full story at Webecoist.

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