Perpectives

16 06, 2024

The Humanity of Animals

By |2024-09-08T19:32:34-04:00June 16th, 2024|Categories: Perpectives, Science|0 Comments

While there are many who doubt that humans evolved from the animal kingdom, we do share many physical traits of animals. Or we could look at it from the other way around: animals share human traits. This is only beginning to be appreciated, especially for such abstractions as the ability to [...]

4 01, 2024

Seriously? Who Said That?!

By |2024-01-05T09:19:14-05:00January 4th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|0 Comments

My father, the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, told me once that every time he played for an audience, it was a performance, regardless of the circumstance or the composition and/or size of the audience. There’s no such thing as frivolous fun in public for a musician, he said, even if that public was limited to [...]

1 11, 2023

Called a Bird Brain? Say Thank You

By |2023-11-01T08:54:03-04:00November 1st, 2023|Categories: Perpectives|0 Comments

“He’s a bird brain” was meant as an insult for generations. Apologies, please. That bird may be smarter than you think. In fact, there is at present, in my opinion, a major re-thinking about animal intelligence, as well as of animal cultures, in general. I touched on this in my essay [...]

25 08, 2023

Fantasy? Maybe Not for Long

By |2023-08-25T09:31:57-04:00August 25th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|0 Comments

The New York Times yesterday morning (8/24/2023), like most days, has news of politics and war. Depressing to say the least. But that’s not what caught my eye. A front-page report was about new technology in which a young woman had a stroke 10 years ago that left her with multiple disabilities, including the inability [...]

2 08, 2023

Can You See Clearly Now?

By |2023-08-02T08:15:04-04:00August 2nd, 2023|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|0 Comments

Names are an indispensable part of our knowledge. Everything has a name. Branded! Until popularity fades… Paul Krugman’s editorial, “What’s in a Name? The Musk/Twitter Edition,” in the New York Times explores brand names in the marketplace. He refers to Elon Musk changing the name of “Twitter” to “X,” which Krugman considers pointless (as do [...]

30 05, 2023

Our Unpredictable Future

By |2023-05-30T10:25:39-04:00May 30th, 2023|Categories: Perpectives|0 Comments

Times change, discoveries happen, predictions become irrelevant. My First Prediction (1949): Surprisingly Wrong! I was nine in 1949 when we moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. After a month or so in a hotel my family finally settled on a house. Finally, moving day, dawn of a new life with a yard in sunny [...]

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