A/B testing

Animals have historically been used as beasts of burden, from the lions that performed at the Coliseum to the elephants of the Ringling Brothers Circus that would execute spectacular stunts. Most people go to circuses because they “love animals”, and have no idea about what happens behind the scenes. But the sad truth is that animal performers are not given five-star treatment like human entertainers, but rather are treated inhumanely. Animals are not performers, spectacles to gawk at, or circus…

Early Buddhists but, not the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama himself, used the idea that animals were spiritually inferior as a justification for the exploitation and mistreatment of animals. It is widely recognized that experimenting on animals is wrong. Buddhists say that this is morally wrong if the animal experiences any pain. So perhaps a Buddhist approach to experiments on animals might require the experimenter to accept the karma of carrying out such an action. The positive way Buddhists…

discuss the controversies of animal experimentation. The concerns it brings, the benefits that arises from this testing and suggested alternatives to decrease this practice. Over decades, animal rights advocates have argued against animal experimentation. These advocates had…

Animal Testing Essay: Lives Saved, Yet Many More Lives Lost Imagine that someone takes you from your cozy home, squeezes you into a cage, and takes you to a tall weird-looking building. Then, imagine that they force you to drink and take injections of liquids that you have never seen before. Suddenly, you start to feel sick and black out, forever. This is the story of more than a hundred million animals every year in animal testing labs. Animal testing is the use of animals for experimentation…

Is it truly enjoyable to be a veterinary professional? Numerous untouchables may expect that vet tech is a remunerating calling for those creature darlings as they can procure great salary and increase incredible fulfillment from their every day work. Actually, this occupation is not so much an agreeable and charming employment. As a creature wellbeing expert, there is a wide assortment of occupation areas sitting tight for you. You can get your livelihood in zoos, aquariums, boarding pet hotels…

in many forms. Some of which people don’t even know. Most people think of animal abuse as just abandoning their cats or dogs out on the streets, but there is more than just that kind of abuse. Some other types of abuse is animal fighting, animal testing, and animal slaughtering. But if animal abuse is so wrong then why does it still exist? What is even worse about animal abuse is some people don't even know the signs of animal abuse. If the animal has a poor body condition, or noticeable trauma,…

“Words, Words, Words” by David Ives is a farce play that is about ten minutes long. It has exaggerated comical situations that are very impossible. It is an act of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, that states that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare”(Wiki). The three monkey characters are based upon the poets John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Franz Kafka. T…

Research Report on Squirrel Monkey On my research at the Oakland Zoo was quite boring in a way that watching monkeys and other animals is a waste of time and waste of $15. However, I did come across the Squirrel Monkey and begin taking some notes on my phone and retype it on my computer. In the observation the Squirrel Monkeys are really active and tends to move in groups. Anyway I hypothesize that male Squirrel Monkey is the same size as the female Squirrel Monkey. The habitat the Squirrel…

According to the “Ariane 5 Flight 501 Failure: Report by the Inquiry Board”, the failure that caused the Ariane 5 was a design error, namely of an Operand Error. The report says, “The exception was detected, but inappropriately handled because the view had been taken that software should be considered correct until it is shown to be at fault” (Lions, 1996). This view manifested itself in the use of extant software from Ariane 4 that was used for Ariane 5 because, to simplify, it worked well for…

Imagine having to scrape up millions of dead cats and dogs off the road because the population of strays have gone out of control. Imagine having to explain to your child why that dog on the side of the road doesn’t have a home. This is something no one wants to see or do, which is why animal shelters and humane societies are so important to this country. However, the same shelters and humane societies are not funded properly to be more efficient. Solutions are needed to bring in more funds for…