Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-4-2009

[andrewducker]

• Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer
  To test the hypothesis that cattle orient their body axes along the field lines of the Earth's magnetic field, we analyzed the body orientation of cattle from localities with high magnetic declination. Here, magnetic north was a better predictor than geographic north. Moo!
  (tags: research animals magnets)
• Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
  And two vital questions to ask.
  (tags: management business collaboration advice)
• Out of Control
  Yet more evidence that the conscious mind isn't actually in control of much.
  (tags: sociology consciousness mind)

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

That cattle and deer paper is very elegant, and mostly done with Google Earth :D

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

The second link makes a lot of sense - I can see myself using that one! Indeed, I have seen things fail in large organisations because they (I...) were trying to be perfect. Thanks!