Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World

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Health & Fitness, Science

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our final TPWKY book club selection of the season will test the limits of your imagination by asking you to consider what it might be like to smell the world through the nose of a dog or to see flowers through the ultraviolet vision of a bee. It will make you ponder the tradeoffs inherent in sensory perception and what an animal’s dominant senses can tell us about what is most important to their species. It will have you contemplating what the future holds for sensory research, both in terms of what new senses we might discover as well as the impacts of sensory pollution on an ecosystem. In short, it will change the way you perceive the world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong joins us to chat about his incredible book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. Yong, whose other book I Contain Multitudes is another TPWKY favorite, leads us on an expedition beyond the boundaries of human senses as we chat about what an octopus tastes, how the line between communication and perception is blurred in electric fish, the evolutionary arms race between bats and moths, and even the long-standing question of why zebras have stripes. Tune in for the riveting and magical conclusion to this season’s miniseries.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:06.0	Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat.
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0:20.0	Dr Death, bad magic, exclusively an ad free by subscribing to Wendry Plus in the Wendry app. Oh, Oh, Hi, I'm Aaron Welsh, and this is is this podcast will kill you. Welcome everyone to the final
1:17.2	episode in the DPW K Y Book Club mini series. Over the past months we have read some wonderfully
1:25.7	fascinating and impactful books and covered a whole lot of ground when it comes
1:31.6	to public health and medicine and biology and history.
1:36.6	So much ground in fact that I'm going to skip the usual spiel I give where I attempt to list or describe all the books we've read.
1:44.4	Whether this is your first time tuning in to one of these episodes
1:48.0	or whether you've been here from the beginning,
1:50.0	thank you so very much for joining me.
1:53.0	And to all the authors who have been so amazing to come on to the podcast and answer my many questions,
1:59.0	a tremendous thank you.
2:01.0	I'd love to bring this miniseries back next season so
2:05.4	please reach out with your book recommendations for future episodes and your
2:09.8	thoughts on past episodes. While I'm sad that this marks the end of the book club, for now,
2:16.0	I am so incredibly excited for this episode because I got to chat with another of my heroes of science communication, Ed Yang, about his
2:26.2	latest book, An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden realms Around Us.
2:32.2	Yang, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize reveal the hidden realms around us.
2:32.8	Yang, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2021
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