Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, August 17, 2023. Link.
Most read post(s) from August 17th AHD Bulletin –
- Building rapport with questions. Link.
- …another dental treat? The inventor of Greenies™ says, “Yes.” Link.
- Taking care of thirsty pollinators. Link.
Place keeper: 2023 Veterinary Conferences provided by Galaxy Vets. Link.
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Men are now a minority in veterinary medicine
Source: Veterinary Team Training, YouTube, June 29, 2023. Link. Men are now a minority in many veterinary hospitals. While women still have a long ways to go regarding equal pay and earning leadership roles, Amy Newfield, MS, CVT, VTS, has seen men having to put up with behaviors from women which should not be tolerated.
“Treat all people, with the professional respect they deserve regardless of gender.”
Lessons for AI from the ad-tech era: ‘We’re living in a memory-less world’
Source: Digiday, August 17, 2023. Link. As the generative AI race gains momentum, it’s worth asking how lessons from ad tech could apply to the new era of innovation. according to Tiffany Xingyu Wang. Experts say the large language models being developed by OpenAI and others are each their own black boxes raising new questions about AI models’ training data and overall performance.
One billion U.S. birds killed per year by window collisions
Source: Treehugger, July 12, 2023. Link. Melissa Breyer shares ways to make homes and low-rise offices more bird friendly. The fall migration is beginning bringing birds not used to our domiciles. Simple things can eliminate that fatal “thump.”
Invasive hornet with ‘reputation’ for targeting honeybees seen in U.S.
Source: The Washington Post, August 18, 2023, Link. Earlier this month, a beekeeper in Georgia saw a hornet on his property that looked different from those he normally sees.
A household blender confirmed DNA’s role as the primary genetic material
Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, August 17, 2023. Link. In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase sought to confirm whether genes were made of DNA or protein using a blender. Their results eventually removed all doubt that genes are made of DNA.
In case of apocalypse, find the nearest 4-H club
Source: The Washington Post, August 21, 2003. Link. Raising and training animals. Growing food. Fishing. Archery. Sewing clothes. Making preserves. These are some of the skills that humanity is going to need if one of the many fictional post-apocalypse narratives ends up coming true.
