Sunday Sundries

1. My friends M&M came over yesterday and brought some of their extensive pen collection for me to play with. It was very, very illuminating in ways that I hadn't expected.

( so much pen talk )

2. We watched the first episode of Lucifer, finally!, and it was good, but also it was weird? ( spoilers )

3. She-Ra watch continues! Almost done. ( spoilers for final season beginning with episode one )

4.

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This is interesting. I didn't realize that recognition of animal cognition was such a hard fought battle. I think we just take it for granted in the 21st century that animals have intelligence.

Alex was clearly a remarkable animal, and so is Dr. Pepperberg.

The memoir elements of this book make me really sad. Pepperberg was neglected and unloved by her parents and intensely lonely as a child. She was subject to a great deal of sexism throughout her career. She was not treated well by her colleagues at various institutions. She divorced a husband who did not see her work as being as valuable as his and demanded she stop to support his work. And then at the end of the book her bird dies. :(



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