Ed Yong (on animal senses)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Ed Yong (An Immerse World, I Contain Multitudes) is a science journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Ed joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he became a science writer, how his coverage of the pandemic was different than other reporting, and how biomimicry has advanced our technology. Ed and Dax talk about how some animals can sense magnetic fields, how evolution is about diversity not superiority, and how senses can often work together instead of being compartmentalized. Ed explains how we need imagination to understand how animals experience the world, what "party tricks" some animals can do, and how there is a whole other dimension of color in the natural world that humans can't see. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Ed Young and I'm joined by
0:06.3	Monica Mouse. Monica Old. Our guess is Ed Young. Ed Young is so fascinating. Oh my goodness, this book he wrote is so incredible.
0:18.0	It is called an immense world how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us. This was mind-bending.
0:25.4	It really was. I've told multiple people about it since we recorded that it's one really worth
0:30.9	listening to. It's mind expanding.
0:33.5	Like I left feeling like I left after we had...
0:37.0	After you did mushrooms?
0:38.0	No.
0:38.6	When we had Brian Cox who taught us about the space.
0:41.6	The universe. Yes, Ed Young's book has you like really
0:44.5	thinking about how much stuff you're missing and how limited reality is for
0:49.4	you with this limited five senses. His previous book was called I Contain Multitudes, which I
0:54.6	think won the Pulitzer Prize. Please check out his new book in immense world. It's
0:58.3	fascinating and enjoy Ed Young.
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