The ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India has been devastating in its reach and impact. Among my friends, family, and acquaintances, I doubt there is a single person who hasn’t been affected directly. Some had the disease themselves; others saw a loved one suffer from it, and…
Einstein is an African Grey parrot who can imitate a spaceship, a laser, and a chimp at will, besides uttering sage words of wisdom upon receiving a cue (and a peanut) from her trainer, Stephanie White. Einstein has a working vocabulary of over 200 words, an impressive number, but nowhere…