Giants of Science: Irene Pepperberg: Animal Communication

This series is not just for folks who got A’s in high school chemistry. The scientists are such good storytellers, their subjects so provocative and the conversation so easygoing that all you have to do is bring your mind (and a friend). Robert Krulwich of Nova Science Now, an NPR regular and an ABC News correspondent, is the host. Students admitted at half price with ID.

Irene Pepperberg is an associate research professor at Brandeis University, and teaches animal cognition at Harvard University. She is head of the Alex Foundation and the author of The Alex Studies and Alex and Me. Her research into the cognitive and communicative abilities of grey parrots has been featured in major newspapers and magazines in the United States and Europe, as well as on television, including the now famous interview of Alex by Alan Alda on Scientific American Frontiers.

Date & Time: Sun, Nov 2, 2008, 7:30pm

Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions

Code: T-LC5PF03-01

Price: $27.00