Tag: numbers

  • Nation & World

    Polly want a vocabulary?

    Irene Pepperberg, best known for her work with an African grey parrot named Alex — whose intelligence was estimated as equal to that of a 6-year-old child — recently relocated her lab to Harvard, where she continues to explore the origins of intelligence by working with birds.

    3 minutes
    grey parrot
  • Nation & World

    A glimpse of lost language

    Peabody Museum researcher finds 400-year-old document that contains numerical translations of a previously unknown Peruvian language.

    2 minutes