Grazing, Work-Life Imbalance. Aug. 7, 2018, Part 2

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🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Each spring, animals move from their winter grazing grounds in search of greener pastures. For birds, where and when to start that journey is based on genetics, and signals from stars, and magnetic fields from the earth. But for some larger mammals like sheep and moose, they’re not born knowing where to go. They need to learn a mental migratory map—and it’s often passed down from other herd members. Ecologists Matthew Kauffman and Brett Jesmer join Ira to tell us more. Plus: Employers tend to design offices and other workspaces to maximize productivity and minimize costs—hence the rise of the open office plan. But a recent study of two large companies published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B found that open office plans reduced face-to-face contact and productivity, a counterintuitive effect. What else is changing work-life balance into an imbalance? Researchers Ethan Bernstein, Nancy Rothbard, and Sarah Andrea discuss the changing science of work.

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0:00.0	This is Science Friday. I'm Iraflato. The end of the summer, it's back to school. But for wild
0:07.4	animals, it's time for migration. How do animals know where to go? And do big and small
0:14.0	animals use the same sense of direction? For bigger animals like deer sheep and moose, there's a theory
0:20.7	that the root is something that needs to be learned.
0:24.5	These hooved animals need to develop a mental migratory map, kind of like your parents showing you their favorite fishing hole.
0:32.4	Well, a team of scientists tested this idea out by following herds of sheep and moose, all equipped with GPS
0:39.6	collars.
0:40.6	Their results were published this week in the journal Science.
0:43.7	Let me introduce them to you.
0:44.9	Matthew Kaufman is a USGS researcher, associate professor at the University of Wyoming
0:49.6	and Laramie.
0:50.4	Welcome to Science Friday.
0:51.2	Matthew, are you there?
0:53.2	Yep. Welcome to the show. Matthew, are you there?
0:54.3	Yep.
0:55.9	Welcome to the show.
0:57.2	Thank you.
0:57.7	You're welcome.
1:03.9	Brett Jesmer is an ecology researcher, also at the University of Wyoming, and they're both authors on this recent study.
1:04.6	Welcome, Brett.
1:06.1	Thank you, Ira.
1:07.4	Let me start out with you.
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