How Animal Senses Reveal Hidden Realms with Ed Yong

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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All creatures, humans included, experience just a tiny slice of the full reality around us. Sharon chats with Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Ed Yong about his book An Immense World, which dives into the amazing and often unseen ways animals sense the world. Ed talks about how exploring these sensory worlds can lead to some pretty big, thought-provoking questions about life. Even if our own perception is limited, there’s so much we can discover when we stay curious and open to new perspectives. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.5	Hello friends. Welcome. Great to have you with me today. My guest is somebody that I absolutely love. I love this discussion. I love his work. I'm talking today to Ed Yong, who is the author of
1:09.0	An Immense World. And if you need a little break from all the
1:13.6	craziness and you need just like a little hit of wonder and fascination with the world you've got
1:20.6	to stick around for today's conversation so let's dive in i'm sharon mcmann and here's
1:26.6	where it gets interesting well Well, anybody who has
1:30.7	followed me for any period of time knows that I am an animal lover. And I actually had your
1:37.6	book, An Immense World, added to my cart in pre-order. I saw it coming out, and I was like,
1:44.0	that is a book for me.
1:46.0	I absolutely loved it. It was named one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times.
1:54.5	That's a huge achievement. First of all, congratulations on that. And the subtitle of the book is how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us.
2:08.0	And first of all, the book is so aptly titled.
2:10.7	It absolutely piqued my interest, made me very curious about what it was going to be about, and the book did not disappoint.
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