Birdman
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We have popular ways of looking at things that sometimes obscure the facts, the accepted facts, of a situation. I learned something of which I was not aware when I was watching The Birdman of Alcatraz the other night: Robert Stroud (the birdman) never had any birds when he was at Alcatraz. All of that took place when he was at the prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. All his years of painstaking study, of turning an uneducated mind into one familiar with many sciences, won him the title of world authority on the illnesses of birds. Truly a mark of genius.