Even Nathan Emery, the cognitive biologist, who is otherwise admiring of Pepperberg's work, thinks it is possible that Alex might have been an exceptionally bright bird.
Well, even the occasional American or European curator or dealer who is impressed by their work thinks twice about a show of Israeli artists.
The report, which is posted on the Web site of the National Academies, www.nationalacademies.org, even explores the possibility of life based on silicon, not carbon, though Dr. Meyer, who had no role in the work, thinks that astrobiologists should limit their search to carbon-based life forms.
Yet Armin Moczek, an evolutionary developmental biologist at Indiana University, Bloomington, who was not involved with the work, thinks the study is important.
Don, as we've seen many times in his work, thinks cinematically.
"Eric is an artist I've known for 10 years, and there is a way his work thinks about multiple histories of New York City," explains Lax, who is also the Assistant Curator of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art.
