In 'An Immense World,' Journalist Ed Yong helps us perceive the world the way animals do

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What if you could taste the world’s electrical fields? Hear vibrations in a leaf? Or see magnetic currents guiding you home? Science writer Ed Yong helps us perceive the world the way animals do – through eyes, ears, antennae and more.

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0:27.1	This is on point.
0:28.3	I'm Megna Chakrabardi.
0:30.2	Ed Young is our guest today.
0:32.2	For the past two years, he's been one of the most prolific
0:35.5	and relied upon journalists reporting on COVID.
0:40.0	That body of work at the Atlantic magazine,
0:42.5	one, Ed, two of journalism's highest prizes,
0:46.2	the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award.
0:49.4	He's also been a frequent guest on this program
0:52.0	to help us better understand this first in a century pandemic.
0:57.2	But that is not why Ed is back with us today.
1:01.8	The COVID pandemic was a massive disruption
1:04.9	to everything in the world, yes,
1:07.0	and to a project that Ed was working on
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