What is talent â and can science spot what we will be best at? My interest in the science of talent has a personal backstory. By the age of three, I'd had 21 ear infections and after an operation to remove fluid from my ears, it took me an extra step to process speech. To help me catch up with my peers, I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. I repeated third grade.
Upcoming Events. Backyard Niche Partitioning. Niche partitioning is a fun term that has a range of nuances to its meaning. Here we will use it to simply illustrate how several backyard species use the same food resources yet are able to live in the same general area because they feed at different times of the day.
A niche is a space that's all your own, from a literal corner or enclosure to some kind of professional specialty. Like finding a niche in the scented soaps market with peanut butter body wash and winning over a loyal, if not nutty, following. In the 1600s, niche was first recorded as meaning a âshallow recess in a wall.. The figurative sense of the word didnât come about for another century. So today, you can use niche literally to refer to a cranny or crevice, or figuratively to talk about an activity or role in life that is particularly suited a personâs interests or talents.