Person Place Thing Episode 66: Diana Reiss - The 92nd Street Y, New York

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Person Place Thing Episode 66: Diana Reiss

Mar 13, 2014


A member of the psychology department at Hunter College, Diana Reiss is an expert in dolphin cognition who has conducted ingenious experiments to demonstrate that these creatures recognize themselves in mirrors: that they are self-aware. She is, incidentally, our first guest to postpone her visit until she returned from a marine mammal conference which, I was bereft to learn, was about marine mammals, and not attended by marine mammals, drunkenly carousing.

I am sadder but wiser.

  • PERSON: Circe, a dolphin (not this one)
  • PLACE: a cove in Taiji, Japan
  • THING: a two-way mirror
 
  • RANDY'S THING: bicycle pain

Categories: Science & Technology


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