Hey, it's Dylan here. I have an announcement, and this one is a doozy.

Atlas Obscura has a new book coming out. Atlas Obscura Wildlife.

And this book, it is magical, it is incredible.

It is a guide to the high weirdness of our natural world.

Did you know that in Poland, a series of mussels, as in the little shellfish,

control cities water supply.

The mussels are very picky about their water, when it's gross, they close.

So a tiny team of muscles is monitored by a computer,

and when they close, it shuts off the city's water.

Or that the London subway, the tube, has its own genetically

distinct variety of mosquito. Are there really tiny shrimp in New York

city's water? Alice Obscura Wildlife brings you answers.

In all seriousness, this is the best book we have ever written.

And it's also an urgent reminder

to look carefully around you.

We are living in the world of the bugs and the

trees and the birds and the bees. We are but one species in their bizarre,

strange, magical world. This is a call to look at that world.

I'm putting a link to pre-order in the show notes and I beg of you if you are all

interested go pre-order a copy it really helps the book succeed it tells Amazon

that it's a good book and they should stock it. It lets me know that you care, but also right now if you send a screenshot of your pre-order to hello at atlasobscura.com, I will personally plan you a vacation. I am not joking. If you

pre-order this book you will get a vacation planned by me, co-founder of Atlas

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