Let’s hear it for pigeons

Pigeons successfully learned to discriminate color slides of paintings by Monet and Picasso.

Sunday Slice: A Cat Found, The Birds Unbound*

  

Sunday Slice: Crane Mansions

 Crane Mansions will be available, initially for Kindle,  in a few weeks. Here is a taste from the opening of the book.

William Blake: free radical

   

Yesterday, August 12th, was the anniversary of the death of that great soul William Blake, for whom the phrase “free radical” could have been invented.

Of cats and Crane Mansions

Ever wondered what your cat is really thinking? Here’s a  review by Nicholas Lezard of John Bradshaw’s  Cat Sense: