Muse, January 1st, 2008
At Japan's oldest and most prestigious university, Keio University in Tokyo, Shigeru Watanabe runs a modest but crowded laboratory where students and collaborators are constantly placing birds and other animals in test chambers to measure one perceptual ability after another, such as whether pigeons can tell the difference between healthy and sick members of their species, between Schönberg and Bach, or between a Monet and a Picasso. To the astonishment of the art world, which thought that only one especially gifted species could discriminate between painters, Watanabe's pigeons have no trou...
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