Richard J Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 981354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6102-4183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Birds are not the only ones impacted by guidance to cease bird feeding
Humans have a particularly strong connection with birds, driving the enormous popularity of residential bird feeding in much of the world. We conducted a web search to document US state wildlife management agency responses to two recent avian disease outbreaks, finding that 23 agencies made recommendations to cease feeding wild birds in 2021–2022. The psychological benefits of bird feeding for humans are well‐documented but often overlooked in ma…
Surface hazards in North-west Europe following sudden stratospheric warming events
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) have been linked to surface temperature anomalies, but how these connect to changes in the likelihood of specific weather extremes and their associated weather patterns remains uncertain. While, on average, it is true that cold surface temperatures follow SSW events, particularly in Northern Europe, there is considerable event-to-event variability. Over the British Isles and Central Europe, only around 45% of …
Uncoupling Molecular Testing for Sars-CoV-2 From International Supply Chains
The rapid global rise of COVID-19 from late 2019 caught major manufacturers of RT-qPCR reagents by surprise and threw into sharp focus the heavy reliance of molecular diagnostic providers on a handful of reagent suppliers. In addition, lockdown and transport bans, necessarily imposed to contain disease spread, put pressure on global supply lines with freight volumes severely restricted. These issues were acutely felt in New Zealand, an island nat…
"Round Table "In Memory of Teodor Shanin
Observations at backyard bird feeders influence the emotions and actions of people that feed birds
Backyard bird feeding is one of the most common ways people engage with wildlife in many parts of the world. Given its scale, it can have profound consequences for the ecology of feeder birds and their behaviour. While previous work has primarily explored socio‐demographic factors associated with bird feeding, how observations of nature at backyard feeders (e.g. changes in feeder bird abundance, interaction with natural enemies and weather) influ…
Love, Toil, Laughter, and Devotion
Julie-Marie Strange’s Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914 is perhaps the most intimate portrayal yet in the growing field of the history of fatherhood. Her study joins work by Lynn
The Evolution of Color Vision Without Colors
The standard adaptationist explanation of the presence of a sensory mechanism in an organism—that it detects properties useful to the organism—cannot be given for color vision. This is because colors do not exist. After arguing for this latter claim, I consider, but reject, nonadaptationist explanations. I conclude by proposing an explanation of how color vision could have adaptive value even though it does not detect properties in the environmen…
Are Pains Necessarily Unpleasant
With apologies for asking you to do something unpleasant, I bid you think of some painful injury you suffered recently, say a cut finger, a burned hand, or a bruised leg. Concentrate on the painful sensation. No doubt it was unpleasant, more unpleasant, I fear, than your present memory of it. But was it necessarily unpleasant? In particular, was the unpleasantness an intrinsic aspect of the sensation, so that you couldn't have that very sensation…
Animal Rights and Human Morality
Henry James: Interpreting an Obsessive Memory
No abstract available for this article
Seeing perfectly dark things and the causal conditions of seeing
Husbands' Occupational Attributes as Constraints on Wives' Employment
This paper draws attention to the implications of the husband's occupational role for the wife's employment by reviewing a widely dispersed literature. It is argued that central attributes of the husband's work role limit the sharing offamily work and put pressure on the wife to participate in the "two-person career, " thereby limiting her own occupational participation and attainment. The socioeconomic rewards, career patterns, temporal requirem…
Seeing and naming
Kuhn and the Copernican Revolution
Anomalies and Scientific Theories
Are Pains Necessarily Unpleasant
With apologies for asking you to do something unpleasant, I bid you think of some painful injury you suffered recently, say a cut finger, a burned hand, or a bruised leg. Concentrate on the painful sensation. No doubt it was unpleasant, more unpleasant, I fear, than your present memory of it. But was it necessarily unpleasant? In particular, was the unpleasantness an intrinsic aspect of the sensation, so that you couldn't have that very sensation…
The Evolution of Color Vision Without Colors
The standard adaptationist explanation of the presence of a sensory mechanism in an organism—that it detects properties useful to the organism—cannot be given for color vision. This is because colors do not exist. After arguing for this latter claim, I consider, but reject, nonadaptationist explanations. I conclude by proposing an explanation of how color vision could have adaptive value even though it does not detect properties in the environmen…
Kuhn and the Copernican Revolution
Anomalies and Scientific Theories
Kuhn and the Copernican Revolution
Seeing and naming
Husbands' Occupational Attributes as Constraints on Wives' Employment
This paper draws attention to the implications of the husband's occupational role for the wife's employment by reviewing a widely dispersed literature. It is argued that central attributes of the husband's work role limit the sharing offamily work and put pressure on the wife to participate in the "two-person career, " thereby limiting her own occupational participation and attainment. The socioeconomic rewards, career patterns, temporal requirem…
Seeing perfectly dark things and the causal conditions of seeing
Animal Rights and Human Morality
Henry James: Interpreting an Obsessive Memory
No abstract available for this article
Are Pains Necessarily Unpleasant
With apologies for asking you to do something unpleasant, I bid you think of some painful injury you suffered recently, say a cut finger, a burned hand, or a bruised leg. Concentrate on the painful sensation. No doubt it was unpleasant, more unpleasant, I fear, than your present memory of it. But was it necessarily unpleasant? In particular, was the unpleasantness an intrinsic aspect of the sensation, so that you couldn't have that very sensation…
The Evolution of Color Vision Without Colors
The standard adaptationist explanation of the presence of a sensory mechanism in an organism—that it detects properties useful to the organism—cannot be given for color vision. This is because colors do not exist. After arguing for this latter claim, I consider, but reject, nonadaptationist explanations. I conclude by proposing an explanation of how color vision could have adaptive value even though it does not detect properties in the environmen…
Love, Toil, Laughter, and Devotion
Julie-Marie Strange’s Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914 is perhaps the most intimate portrayal yet in the growing field of the history of fatherhood. Her study joins work by Lynn
Observations at backyard bird feeders influence the emotions and actions of people that feed birds
Backyard bird feeding is one of the most common ways people engage with wildlife in many parts of the world. Given its scale, it can have profound consequences for the ecology of feeder birds and their behaviour. While previous work has primarily explored socio‐demographic factors associated with bird feeding, how observations of nature at backyard feeders (e.g. changes in feeder bird abundance, interaction with natural enemies and weather) influ…
"Round Table "In Memory of Teodor Shanin
Uncoupling Molecular Testing for Sars-CoV-2 From International Supply Chains
The rapid global rise of COVID-19 from late 2019 caught major manufacturers of RT-qPCR reagents by surprise and threw into sharp focus the heavy reliance of molecular diagnostic providers on a handful of reagent suppliers. In addition, lockdown and transport bans, necessarily imposed to contain disease spread, put pressure on global supply lines with freight volumes severely restricted. These issues were acutely felt in New Zealand, an island nat…
Surface hazards in North-west Europe following sudden stratospheric warming events
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) have been linked to surface temperature anomalies, but how these connect to changes in the likelihood of specific weather extremes and their associated weather patterns remains uncertain. While, on average, it is true that cold surface temperatures follow SSW events, particularly in Northern Europe, there is considerable event-to-event variability. Over the British Isles and Central Europe, only around 45% of …
Birds are not the only ones impacted by guidance to cease bird feeding
Humans have a particularly strong connection with birds, driving the enormous popularity of residential bird feeding in much of the world. We conducted a web search to document US state wildlife management agency responses to two recent avian disease outbreaks, finding that 23 agencies made recommendations to cease feeding wild birds in 2021–2022. The psychological benefits of bird feeding for humans are well‐documented but often overlooked in ma…
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