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Science Talk

Summer of Science Reading, Episode 1: The Many Mysteries of Fish

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply resonant entanglement. In this week’s show: Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller, and The Book of Eels, by Patrik Svensson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science of Summer Reading. I'm your host, Deboki Chakroverdi.

0:39.7

Sometimes on Science Talk, we have conversations with authors about their books, but this

0:45.2

series is going to be a little different.

0:48.1

What I love as a reader is seeing how books can end up feeling like they're in conversation

0:53.7

with each other,

0:54.9

even when they're not written to do that.

0:57.9

So each week for the month of August, I'll be taking on two science books at a time

1:02.5

and just chatting with you about them.

1:05.6

I'll be talking through what the authors made me think and feel,

1:08.9

and maybe you've read these books yourself,

1:12.0

and maybe you've even had some of the same feelings after reading them.

1:16.9

Or maybe not.

1:19.1

And if you haven't read them, well, maybe this science book talk will inspire you too.

1:24.9

Today I've got two books about the mysteries of fish. Some of these mysteries are

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