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Jared Toettcher, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, USA during the session Ask About: Cell Behaviour, at the Annual Meeting of New Champions of the World Economic Forum, 2017, Dalian, China, 27th June 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
I've seen egrets wiggle their feet hunting for food, but this is the first time I've noticed similar behaviour in a common ringed plover. Jan 4th 2025.
(Freestyle: Canada at large, Vancouver) A shot of the mural on the oustide wall of the Laughing Bean, our neighbourhood cafe.
That's right.
Anti Social Behaviour Law grants London Police so-called dispersal powers within specified 'Good Behaviour Zones'.
'If an officer feels [not 'reasonably suspects'...just feels] that two or more people gathering in a public place are causing or are likely to cause anti social behaviour they may order them to disperse.' If you refuse their order to leave then you are committing an offence.
Platypezidae - characteristic behaviour of running around on a leaf.
Probably a Lindneromyia dorsalis.
Stummbled on these 3 hares in a field and had a great couple of hours filming and photgraphing these guys.
The Gilly suit was on for this as I didn't know how tolerant they would be of me. ISO was between 500-800 and F stop 4 - 5.6 on AV
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
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
Day 3 of Indian exploration. School children hurry through the stunning Red Fort behind delicately carved white marble lattice-work lit by a fiery-red sun
Participants 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
*Provocation Through Shock*
Las Hurdes bluntly presents the inhabitants of poor villages in Spain as primitives, using shots that remind us of brutal colonial behaviour. For instance, the camera makes a close-up of the teeth and throat of a sick girl. The camera is examining her from a superior position, suggesting we the viewers are more civilised than she is. We also see the image of a mosquito in a medical book followed by a man shivering of fever, suggesting that we have the knowledge to prevent his malaria, but he doesn’t. These images are shocking from the perspective of ethnographic cinema which, now and in the 1930s, aims for a humanistic, emphatic perspective. But to shock was of course at the core of the methods used by the Surrealists to provoke change in society.
Buñuel insisted on showing things rather than just telling them. He went as far as to shoot a climbing goat to show those goats sometimes fall from the cliffs. He could not wait for such an occasion to happen so he took out his revolver and shot a goat. This was clearly not consistent with the observational method used in the film, but this did not bother Buñuel. He left the shot in the film, even though the smoke of his gun was visible in the frame.
Shocking Music
The shock of the images is exacerbated by the music and voice-over that Buñuel uses. He puts the Fourth Symphony of Brahms under the images, creating again an enormous contrast. The sophisticated musical style combined with the dire circumstances of the Las Hurdes people force the viewer to see ‘them’ as very different from ‘us’, as primitives who do not take part in our civilisation.
Shocking Commentary
The voice-over makes this even worse. It is condescending and sarcastic, and shows indifference that could easily be mistaken for objectivity. To the contemporary viewer this suggests an ironic reading. For instance, when we see a few unidentified objects tacked to the wall, the voice-over says: “Note the flair for interior decorating.” And when we see a picture of an infanta on the wall of a school: “What is this fair lady doing here?” These comments highlight the idiosyncrasy of the voice-over, but most of the time it has a straightforward bluntness. Just after the camera has examined the mouth of the sick girl, it says coolly: “we were told that the girl died two days later.”
A Shocked Audience
The audience of the film in the 1930s was “extremely displeased” (ibid., p. 29), which is exactly what Buñuel had hoped for of course. He wanted to shock people out of their comfortable notions of the world around them, and provoke them into thinking for themselves.
Moving Beyond Stereotypes Through Shock
Bunuel's tactic might still work today in design research, because we often find that it is perhaps even more difficult to unlearn or forget the stereotypes we have of groups of people than learning new things about them. If one exagerates the stereotype, like Bunuel does by presenting poor village people as primitives, it becomes harder to take the stereotype seriously and forces you to look beyond your own certainties and knowledge.
About the film
Luis Buñuel, surrealist and eager to critique the status quo in society as well as in filmmaking, took a far from neutral stance with his film Las Hurdes (Land without bread) (1933). Not unimportantly, he did not have his hands tied by financers as he financed his films through a friend who had won the lottery and did not make any demands. Before Buñuel made his documentary Las Hurdes, he had already made his two short Surrealist films Un chien Andalou (1929) and (with Salvador Dali) L’age d’or (1930). To him, Las Hurdes is similar to his two earlier films and equally much Surrealist:
Of course the difference was that this film was based on a concrete reality. But it was an exceptional reality, one that stimulated the imagination. Furthermore the film coincided with the social concerns of the Surrealist movement which were very intense at the time.
Buñuel did not use a script for the film. He had read a book about the region that meticulously documented many aspects of everyday life in the arid mountains. Ten days before the shooting he visited the region and wrote down words like: ‘goats’, ‘a child sick with malaria’, ‘anopheles mosquitoes’, ‘there are no songs, there is no bread’, and he shot the film pretty much in agreement with those notes.
Quotations from an interview with Buñuel in: MacDonald and Cousins (1996) Imagining Reality, Faber and Faber, London.
I found a french spoken (no subtitles) copy of the film as an extra on Buñuel's Los Olvidados DVD at the DVD Bargains shop on Ebay.
As I was watering the garden the other day I noticed this little fellow nearby, and when I looked closer, I saw he was holding a drop of water. I didn't know spiders did that. Not the sharpest shot; hard to shoot macro when the wind is blowing the web, but I couldn't resist the shot of him holding that drop of water.
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 and the one before he's looking at me, such an amazing experience, in the others he's nodding at Gary (ggwildlife) and then to his own chick)
One sunday as we were driving across town we came upon a car in the middle of the intersection., motor running, driver slumped over. I went over to see if the driver was hurt or unconscious. I thought maybe he had a heart attack. As I looked in the window I could see he was alive but passed out and next to him was an empty bottle of schnaps. Called 911. please pick up idiot.
I cannot confirm it but to the best of my knowledge this is the Curraheen Walkway and I was at Lee Fields when I found it.
Sadly there were many signs of anti-social behaviour and I suspect that items of street-furniture such a litter bins and signage had been set alight.
A person that I met on the trail mentioned that I might see an a coypu and I had no idea what he was talking about. Later, on my return to the hotel, I checked online and found the following “The public has being asked to report sightings of any coypus, sometimes mistaken for otters, after one was spotted in or near the River Lee near the Lee Fields in Cork City recently”.
I did not see any big rodents but there were many horses and dogs to be seen.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
La relación de los rostros con el tipo de ropa es obvio. Cámara escondida (candid shot). View On Black
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By no means a technically perfect image but it does show nicely the behaviour of Spotted Flycatchers. I think the bird being fed is actually the female and not a juv.
I wonder what moron decided that nicking this from Sainsbury's and dumping this in the River Lark was a good idea?
Image of of two goannas (Lace monitor, Varanus varius) engaged in domination behaviour ('combat') and quite oblivious to the world.
LOcation: Near Culcairn, NSW, Australia
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A website collects
- satellite data + prodiction
- crowd sourced data :
The website tells every bot the "center" of the spill.
The swam moves there not in line, but scanning maximum width.
Whoever finds first become [Busy]
[Available] bot go join the [Busy]
until the work is complete
If another bot is too far (the one at the bottom) it "explores" around, scanning.
The "people" on land
can over-ride the swarm movement (they have a camera on them
IF
>> [emergency] they need the bot in a specific location
>> [density] humans know a spot where there is more oil to be collected