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I understand. To me, a name is a verbal symbol that a creature associates more-or-less uniquely with itself, so that when a creature wants to communicate to a specific individual within a group, the specific individual will understand that the message is directed to it and not to the others...

Personally when I became aware that birds might know one another by names, it makes me feel really happy and excited. It is like discovering a new alien society right outside my window. It makes me feel that the birds are just like other folks in town and they deserve to have their fair share of...

What do you mean by socially unacceptable and unsafe? Do you mean that it is offensive to some people, or that it is not academically correct?

Thank you, good to know that I am not crazy for thinking that birds of a flock know one another by their names. Is it culturally ok for me to email Karl Berg to about it, given that I am not NPB student/researcher and I do not know more biology than what I have left now from BIO 101?

Do birds know one another by names?

Hi, that is beyond my domain knowledge. I am interested in what others have to say though.

Hello fahad03092, I think researches can be classified in several ways, for a particular research, it could have characteristics of more than one term: o Scientific o Theoretical o Survey o Applied A theoretical research has a characteristic where the object being studied either does...

Interpretation: Suppose for emitting red light 694nm, the full-wave antenna would be 694nm. So you would fabricate an array of antenna like how computer chips are made from waffers, except it is metallic. On a waffer there would be many of these light-emitting-antennas. Suppose you do something...

If Light is EM wave, and antenna can emit EM wave, then can an antenna emit light? Is this a matter of designing the antenna correctly or is there something fundamentally wrong about this reasoning?

Economy Economy is the snapshot of an economic system. What is the function of an economic system? Function: To account for contribution to determine resource distribution. Components: o Money o Entities o Resources o Goods/Services Component Interactions: Money...

Re: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cmicheyl/demos.html I listened to the three samples. I could clearly hear two tones in each. Re: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...m&ordinalpos=1 Auditory System o Its functions o Its components o Its component interactions Functions o To...

Is "economy" a single quantifiable number? Does it have units? Is it more like "health", that has indicators to infer it but doesn't have a unit itself? What is "economy"? Is it a "phenomenon"? Is it "interaction"?

Hi, I think I understand the concept of productivity from this thread. The amount of money that circulates is proportional to the amount of resource that is circulated. The resource could include physical resource, time, or intellectual property. Economic grow is a combined growth in these three...

Is it accurate to say that business can be created? Since the pool of money a society has is fixed, businesses are only competing each other for market share. If population grows and the pool of money is fixed, on average everyone will become poorer. Then, as a whole, how can an economy be...

Thanks, do you happen to know where the preception of sound inside the brain is studied? I want to know about how they go about studying it and what they have found.