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To change behaviours, often it's ineffective to address the Behaviours directly as your first step. You need to drill deeper to the underlying Beliefs, and sometimes to the underlying Values.
If you gave a three year old a gurk great shed of a vehicle like this - guess where they'd leave it !!!
I was up at one of our local churchyards for my walk this morning when I noticed this female Mallard.
She was quacking away and then flew up into a hole in a tree, if she's nesting there I worry about the babies when they hatch.
The pond is just across a fairly busy road if they try to get there.
Muttamorphosis Dog Training & Behaviour Kennel Club Good Citizen Puppy Foundation Graduates March 2011
This fox cub, at the British Wildlife Centre, is showing typical submissive behaviour towards one of his siblings, just out of shot to the right.
Maxims of Behaviour
Alexander Knox
Kinetic light installation, 2008
Royal Mail House, cnr of Bourke & Swanston Sts (Melway ref. 2F, F3)
Maxims of Behaviour plays across the distinctive 10-storey, 1960s’ facade of Royal Mail House. Set among the giant billboards and screens of the south-eastern corner of the Bourke and Swanston Streets, Alexander Knox’s kinetic light work can be seen each winter evening from dusk till late, until 2012.
The work features colourful abstract imagery that moves spectral-like across the façade, transforming the site into a dynamic entity, a living thing that inhabits the area. The imagery is produced from abstracted video footage of the city’s light, colour and movement, and it acts as a mimetic device that echoes and feeds off its surrounds. The installation becomes an integral part of the nightscape, complementing the floodlit surroundings, creating an organic synthesis of movement and light. The title of the work is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘Phantasmagoria’, in which the author draws an insightful parallel between ghosts and us.
Some 88 multi-coloured LED lights mounted on the ledges of the building facade are used produce the moving montage of light. This matrix of computer-controlled lights projects onto the surface of the building, with each light effectively acting as a pixel. Each night the average energy consumption is equivalent to running a 2400W small electric heater. The LEDs have a lifespan of 100,000 hours; they are very low maintenance and run on green power.
The City of Melbourne commissioned Alexander Knox to make Maxims of Behaviour as part of its Public Art Program.
Photograph by Greg Sims
In the spring of 2008 this nest was built atop a young 8-9' tree. I never saw eggs, but did see and photograph young redwings in it just prior to the June flood. The mother spent much time in the nest...I uploaded a few photos at the time. A male redwing spent its time on a high branch of an adjacent towering evergreen tree...always on lookout.
The flood completely submerged this tree...you can see the dead leaves etc. If there were still babies in the nest they were lost. In this photo, about two weeks after the flood, the male (or another, who knows) spent much time on the nest...perhaps wondering what happened. The female had been back on the nest right after the floodwaters receded, but the nest was otherwise empty.
In the fall the Parks Department came through and removed all of the flood-killed trees and bushes...levelling much of the lakeside land.
That what looks like white smudges are in fact hares hiding behind the columns, sparing themselves from the harsh wind. Smart creatures
SHOCKIN' BEHAVIOUR
Solo exhibition by un-plugged
The loss of power that humanity may one day face.
27th Oct - 8th Nov 09
Venue:
The Foundry
86 Great Eastern Street
London
EC2A 3JL
Old Street tube (exit3)
More shots from last Saturday at Barnes. This Little Grebe with one of his chicks was so happy to pose for us. He even seemed to be trying to communicate with us by nodding...
In this shot he was nodding towards Gary (ggwildlife)
Enjoy watching the behaviour of a flock of Magpie Geese. One or two usually remain on watch while the rest are resting, then the slightest sound results in all heads shooting upwards and increased vigilance until they see that they are safe. Once common around here they became extinct due to draining and hunting, but were reintroduced from the 1970s and are gradually increasing. Hopefully one day we will see them in huge flocks once again. Always a joy to see
Torymus sp. female wasp pupa inside dissected cherry gall. Surrey, UK.
A parasitoid of Cynips quercusfolii which created the gall. Note long ovipositor wrapped around its back.
i know Martin Parr has kind of done the whole 'The Tourists' thing, but as a tourist myself & also someone who likes to photograph people & how we behave candidly, it is the behaviour that intrigues & amuses me especially in a technological age where everything can be so easily documented & shared immediately by everyone (myself included!) it does make me wonder if people are actually looking or enjoying 'the sights' rather than just recording them,
though i think the Martin Parr quote below sums up my thoughts far better than i can express them on the matter ;)
"I am under the impression that no-one is really paying attention to the splendours and beauties of the site, as the urge to photograph is so overwhelming. The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking"
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Madeline Gannon, Research Fellow, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Cultural Leader captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Katherine Kinzler, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA and Madeline Gannon, Research Fellow, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Cultural Leader captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary