Ed Yong on the wondrous world of animal senses
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of our new series Nature hits the books, science journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about his new book An Immense World, which takes a journey through the weird and wonderful realm of animal senses.
In the show, we chat about how our human-centric view of the world has restricted researchers' understanding of animal senses, how to conceptualise what it might be like to be an electric-field sensitive fish, and what bees might make of us blushing...
An Immense World, Ed Yong, Random House (2022)
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| 1:09.8 | Hi everyone, Benjamin Thompson here. Welcome to episode one of Nature Hits the Books, a new show where I'll be chatting with authors about their new science books. |
| 1:19.7 | For this first episode, I reached out to a pal of mine, the science journalist Ed Yong. |
| 1:24.9 | Ed is a staff writer at the Atlantic, and in 2021, he won the Pulitzer Prize for |
| 1:29.8 | explanatory reporting for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. His second book has just been |
| 1:35.7 | published. It's called An Immense World, and it takes a deep dive into the sensory world of |
| 1:41.4 | animals, and I caught up with him on the phone to find out a bit more about it. |
| 1:45.5 | We chatted about a bunch of things, |
| 1:47.7 | including how our human-centric view of the world |
| 1:50.1 | has restricted our understanding of animal senses, |
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